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Sanna, Claudio: Compositori Sardi Contemporanei II [2 CDs] (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

The second volume in pianist and composer Claudio Sanna exploration of composers, improviser and experimenters from Sardinia, in a wonderfully diverse set of works and performances from Sanna himself, Anna Zeriotto (double bass), Federico Nicoletta (piano), Leoardo Zunica (piano), Sandro Mungianu (live electronics), and Paolo Pastorino (live electronics).
 

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Claudio Sanna-piano

Anna Zerlotto-double bass

Federico Nicoletta-piano

Leonardo Zunica-piano

Sandro Mungianu-live electronics

Paolo Pastorino-live electronics


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UPC: 752156105725

Label: ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Catalog ID: ezz-thetics 2-1057
Squidco Product Code: 35317

Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Mantova, Italy, in 2023, by Carlo Cantini.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Today's wine tasting is once again hosted by sommelier Claudio Sanna. He presents more local Sardinian varieties with a round of flights, much like the 2022 release Compositori Sardi Contemporanei. Instead of grape cultivars and vintners, Sanna presents multiple composers and performers for you to sample, not with your tongue but your ears. Just like a wine tasting experience, these tracks are a sample of the rich and fertile Sardinian landscape of creative musicians.

Double bassist Adriano Orrù's "Cosmogonia Semplice" ("Simple Cosmogony") is a blend of varieties that include jazz, chamber music, and free improvisation. His approach to the double bass has hints of fellow Italian bassist Stefano Scodanibbio and American percussionist Z'EV. His bass, like Sandro Mungianu's piano heard on "la plurima ombra del senso" is prepared with objects and electric spheres. Both musicians create a deep resonance that blooms outward as each fine tune their energy systems.

Gaia Aloisi's composition "Charmolypi" deals with the micro environments of the soul. For our enology purposes, the modulations of light, humidity, wind, and all the elements that influence wine on a microscopic scale are drawn out through the stillness and movement of piano notes.

Alessio Carrus presents "Eos-Phobos" for piano upon first inspection is colored by a fearful trepidation. Carrus tailors his notes with a portent of darkness, the same blackness which accompanies the dead of night. Eos, or the goddess of dawn, in Greek literature rose each morning from at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and end the night's darkness, cannot extinguish the fundamental anxiety which pervades our modern world. On the tongue the music is full of tannin or structured by apprehension and unease.

Elia Perinu and Mario Carta's compositions are inspired by the sea. Perinu utilizes a line taken from Arthur Rimbaud's poem "L'éternité," exploring the notion of eternity as juxtaposed with the impermanence of a singular moment. Here he draws upon the brief period when the sun, rising from the sea, is both part of and separate from the transforming waters. Carta's "quell'estate il mare più silenzioso" identifies patterns in an ever changing sea and ultimately settles upon the deafening silence of its vastness. Both artists describe a constant wave upon wave, which challenges the mind to organize the movements, but like the sea, this is an impossible task.

Gabriele Verdinelli, Roberto Piana, and Graziano Solinas harvest sounds from old vines to compose their music. Verdinelli's "Nodas 14, for piano and live electronics" draws inspiration from an ancient religious procession in Northern Sardinia with other-worldly vocals. Piana's "Petite Suite" and Solinas' "Luci e Ombre" take cuttings from 19th and 20th century France, grafting its rootstocks. Piana explores the flavors of a Baroque harpsichord performed on a modern piano. Solinas' tender sounds could easily be the soundtrack to a time-lapse film of the vines tiny buds emerging in spring through their leaf fall after harvest.

Silvia Corda's four one minute long compositions for toy piano are like a mirto spritz - prosecco plus mirto liqueur, soda, and a orange slice. Like the centuries-old Sardinian drink, the brief tracks are quite refreshing and surely reminiscent of Thelonious Monk's 1957 rendition of "Pannonica" played on a celeste piano. The same freshness is evident in Battista Giordano's dancing "Bethel," it's nose tickling effervescent energy bubbling throughout this well ordered performance.

Also inspired by movement is Gabriele Manca's "Danza." The brief gamboling performance is both playful and rhythmically challenging. The music evokes physicality in both the operation of the instrument and the piano's call to dance. In contrast, Gabriele Cosmi's "Gaudix IV," the final movement from a concerto for piano and instrument, halts motion and nearly takes one's breath away with its mesmerizing intensity of emotion and sound.

Where the other cultivators of these aural grapes take a more poetic approach to composing, Antonio La Spina favors a systematic method. One that would make John Cage smile. The instructions for his "Ponti al telefono per l'iniziato, for piano and electronics" ("Bridges on the phone for the initiate") are elaborate and complex. He details the set up of the piano with precise placings of a coin, e-bow, a swiffer duster and the use of two pair of walkie-talkies plus a bluetooth speaker and bluetooth pedal, and a plastic guitar slide. La Spina gives exacting guidance for the performance, describing the actions to be taken by the left and right hands and the piano's pedals. All of which is modified by set and setting of the performance.

Both Marcello Pusceddu and Alessandro Milia's compositions are scored for two pair of hands. Like the coupled professions of enologist and harvester, each pianist is given a distinct tasks. For Milia's "Sound Trascendence", one pianist is at the keyboard and the second inside the instrument on the strings. Pusceddu's "Duoso" utilizes all twenty fingers of two pianists to reimagine Sardinian folk music with techniques drawn from minimalism.

Finally, our faithful sommelier, Claudio Sanna presents his own organic harvest with three performances. Teaming up with engineer Francesco Canetti and his electronic invention Torches on "Infinito, for piano and live electronics" and sound designer Paolo Pastorino for "Pietre di una esposizione." Then there is "Black And White Beats," written by Michele Sanna. It is a sort of organized Cecil Taylor somatic dance of hands on the keyboard. The emphasis on all three tracks is terroir, as his instrument is fermented by not only the soil, topography, and climate, but the invisible magnetic fields that surround the music."-Mark Corroto


Artist Biographies

"He performed as a soloist with the Sassari Philharmonic, with the Fiesole Youth Orchestra and with the I Musici di Parma for various prestigious venues, including the Vatican Museums, Teatro Comunale "L. Pavarotti" of Modena, Teatro della Tosse of Genoa, Vivaldi Room of the National Library of Turin, Filarmonica di Rovereto, Teatro Comunale of Sassari and Municipal Auditorium of Cagliari. He dedicates himself with particular passion to the chamber repertoire, collaborating with the first parts of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Among the most recent concerts performed in recent years, the execution by Pierrot Lunaire by A. Schoenberg with Sonia Bergamasco on the voice for the Festival "The Great Performers of Music" of Sassari and The Petite Messe Solennelle by G. Rossini for the "G. Verdi" Festival of Parma He collaborates with ADM Soundscape, a chamber ensemble specializing in the 20th century repertoire based in Modena, with which he has performed for prestigious concert societies and theaters, addressing contemporary works among the most complex (Arpège by F.Donatoni, Tria ex one of G.F.Haas ) as well as several premier performances written for this Ensemble. In 2016 he founded the Trio Praxodia, a formation of Sardinian musicians with whom he dedicated himself to the contemporary repertoire (the first Italian performance of "Lerchenmusik" Op.53 by the Polish composer H. Gorecki, first absolute performance of "Variations-Study on the deformations of the time" by A.Doro). In 2015 he published his first solo album entitled "Ammentos" for the Swiss record company Hat Hut Records, presented entirely with original music. As a composer, he won the composition contest "A Mario De Murtas" with the work "Né le fragile ombre"and has recently published two Piano Studies (Da Vinci Edition, 2017) Current collaborations as a master collaborator for the Arena di Verona, the Salso Summer class and Salsomaggiore Terme festival, Music and Nature of Porto Torres, International Festival of Music Sardinia and Badesi's Musical Holidays in collaboration with the Masters Marco Zoni, Daniele Agiman , Antonio Amenduni, Alessandro Moccia, Marco Scano, Simonide Braconi, Cristhoph Hartmann, Marie- Francoise Pallot, Gabriele Croci, Vadim Brodski. He received his academic diploma in the conservatory of his city with the highest grades and was later perfected with Andrea Lucchesini, Pietro De Maria and Enrico Stellini at the Di Pinerolo Music Academy."

-AVA Musical Editions (https://www.editions-ava.com/en/claudio-sanna-1985)
12/3/2024

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Anna Zerlotto is a bassist, know for the trio Enrico Breanza - Anna Zerlotto - Lazzarone.

-Squidco 12/3/2024

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"Federico Nicoletta performed as a soloist for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a Liszt recital, for the Teatro alla Scala (Kammermusik nr.2 by P. Hindemith), with the Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi of Milan and the Orquesta RTVE-Radio Televisión Española (concerto op.54 by Schumann), with the Filarmonica Toscanini at the Paganini auditorium in Parma (2nd concerto for piano and orchestra by F. Liszt), with the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana (1st concerto for piano and orchestra by Beethoven), at the Bologna Festival (Oiseaux exotiques by Messiaen for piano and orchestra). In 2016 he was awarded the 2nd prize and the critics' prize at the "Rina Sala Gallo" International Piano Competition in Monza and in 2018 the Finalist Prize at the XIX Concurso Internacional de Piano de Santander "Paloma O'Shea". He dedicates himself with great passion to chamber music, collaborating with the first parts of the orchestras of Teatro alla Scala, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Opera di Roma, RAI and Teatro Regio di Torino, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Opéra de Paris, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Metropolitan Opera, with musicians such as P. Cuper, E. Daniels, E. Fagone, C. Giuffredi, U. Lemper, R Morales, A. Persichilli, M. Pierobon, F. Platoni, Y. Sato, for prestigious concert societies and theaters (MiTo Festival, 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Venice Biennale, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Ponchielli di Cremona, Auditorium of RTSI-Radio Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, Palazzo del Quirinale, Teatro Bibiena di Mantua, Ravenna Festival). For the 2019/2020 season he is Artist in Residence for the Società dei Concerti di Milano. Graduated with honors from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Benedetto Lupo, from the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Bruno Canino (chamber music) and Pietro De Maria (piano), in Naples and Parma with Stefania Bertucci, Pierpaolo Maurizzi and Pietro Veneri (Orchestra Conducting), he teaches piano and piano accompaniment at the Conservatories and Higher Music Institutes of Adria, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna, Lucca and Bergamo."

-Associazione Amici della Musica (Translated by Google) (https://amicidellamusicamodena.it/biografia/federico-nicoletta/)
12/3/2024

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"Born in Mantua Leonardo Zunica studied at the Verona Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik Vienna. at the Moscow State Conservatory. His teachers include Renzo Bonizzato, Virginio Pavarana (former pupils of A.B. Michelangeli), Alfredo Speranza, Kostantin Bogino, Lev Naumov, Irina Chukowskaya. Guest in national and international festivals as a soloist and chamber musician, Leonardo Zunica has performed in Italy, France, Spain, Scotland, Finland, Ukraine, Croatia, Switzerland, Greece, Russia. Interested in contemporary music he curated the first performances of solo and chamber music by Luigi Manfrin, Gabrio Taglietti, Eero Hämmeeniemi, Evgen Stankovich, Corrado Rojac and italian young composers. His concert repertorire has included complete piano four hands works by Debussy (including original trascriptions), chamber music by Olivier Messiaen (Visions de l'Amen, Quatour pour la fin du temps, Oiseaux Exotiques and other works), George Crumb (complete Makrokosmos vol I, III,IV) and monographic projects with music by Mozart, Satie, Szymanowsky, Gershwin, Piazzolla. His activity includes collaborations with the violinist Oleksandr Semchuk, the clarinetists Anton Dressler and Gabriele Mirabassi, pianist Maria Ala-Hannula (Ebony piano duo), the cellist David Cohen, the saxophonist Federico Mondelci, the musicologist Sandro Cappelletto, and Ivano Fossati. His collaborations include those with contemporary music ensembles such as Gruppo Musica Insieme (Cremona), Dedalo Ensemble (Brescia), Icarus ensemble (Reggio Emilia) and, as a soloist, with orchestras such as the Verona Arena Orchestra, I Virtuosi Italiani, the National Orchestra of Ukraine. With Paolo Ghidoni and Antonio Mostacci he is part of the Trio di Mantova. His cd releases include Concerto for piano, violin and string quartet op. 21 by Ernest Chausson, the Debussy First book of Préludes including recordingof historical piano trascription of "Prélude a l'après-midi d'une" faune by Leonard Borwick. Leonardo Zunica is artistic director of Eterotopie, a concert season project devoted to new music and new ways of esploring concert experiences. He's teaching piano in italian conservatories. "

-Leonardo Zunica Website (https://www.leonardozunica.it/about)
12/3/2024

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"The artistic path of Sandro Mungianu takes place in the field of contemporary music, sound design and multimedia art.

He studied piano, clarinet and saxophone and later graduated in electronic music in electronic music in Italy and in Composition and theory of music in Switzerland.

During his research paths he has built and developed several robotic tools, implementing traditional tools with electronics.

His music has been performed in national and international contexts including the Venice Biennale, Unique Forms Of Continuity in Space in Australia, the Prix Ars Electronica in Austria, the Intermedial Festival in Poland, the Neon and Caffeine Festival in Switzerland, the Bridges Festival in Luxembourg and many others.

He taught Electroacoustics at the Conservatory of Perugia and Multimedia at the Conservatory of Como, where he directed the Department of Electronic Music. He is currently a lecturer in the chair of Multimedia at the State Conservatory of Music "Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" in Cagliari.

He is president of the Spaziomusica Association founded in 1982 by Franco Oppo with whom he is actively engaged in the organization of festivals, musical events and art installations."

-Sandro Mungianu Website (https://www.sandromungianu.com/)
12/3/2024

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"Paolo Pastorino (1983) is an acousmatic composer. He studied and graduated in computer music and sound technologies at the Conservatory of Sassari and he is specialized in new music technologies at the Conservatory of Cagliari. His compositions have been presented in several contemporary and electroacoustic music festivals in different countries of the world. Currently His field of musical and expressive research regards in particular concrete music and field recording."

-Paolo Pastorino Website (https://paolopastorino83.wixsite.com/paolopastorino)
12/3/2024

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. Cosmogonia Semplice (for double bass) 06:01

2. Eos-Phobos (for piano) 06:22

3. La mer allee avec le soleil (for piano) 20:58

4. Nodas 14 for piano & live electronics 05:44

5. Pensiero I (for toy piano) 00:54

6. Pensiero II 00:38

7. Pensiero III 01:12

8. Pensiero IV 00:57

9. Ponti al telefono per l'iniziato I (for piano & electronics) 10:05

10. Infinito (for piano & electronics) 12:51

CD2



1. Duoso, For Piano Four Hands 4:37

2. Sound Trascendence, For Piano Four Hands 9:06

3. Pietre Di Una Esposizione "Terra", For Piano And Live Electronics 1:36

4. Pietre Di Una Esposizione "Aria", For Piano And Live Electronics 2:35

5. Pietre Di Una Esposizione "Fuoco", For Piano And Live Electronics 2:29

6. Pietre Di Una Esposizione "Acqua", For Piano And Live Electronics 2:42

7. Bethel, For Piano 2:48

8. Charmolypi, For Piano And Electronics 8:25

9. Quell'estate Il Mare Piu Silenzioso, For Piano 3:34

10. Guadix IV, For Piano 2:58

11. Danza, For Piano Four Hands 1:53

12. Luci E Ombre, For Piano 2:36

13. Petite Suite, For Piano - Preludio 2:22

14. Petite Suite, ForPiano - Allemanda 1:58

15. Petite Suite, For Piano - Corrente 0:43

16. Petite Suite, For Piano - Adagio 1:03

17. Petite Suite, For Piano - Finale 1:50

18. La Plurima Ombra Del Senso, For Piano And Live Electronics 6:52

19. Beats Etudes "I. Black And White Beats" 6:33

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