Invisibilia Editions presents Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno by Maria Valentina Chirico. Cover photo by Sophie Anne Herin.

"The music of Initiale is based on the verses of poet Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired by the melody of a carillon I owned as a child. This melody created a connection with the invisible and accompanied me into the world of dreams. Quanno Nascette Ninno is a song born of two wraithlike childhood memories: the rite of the procession in my house, with the candle that my grandmother gave me to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and the first time I listened to the third movement of the first symphony of Gustav Mahler". - Maria Valentina Chirico