Silvia Tarozzi - Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lucciole is Silvia Tarozzi's luminous follow-up to the intimate reflections of Mi specchio e rifletto and the deeply rooted folk dialogues of Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore with Deborah Walker. Here, Tarozzi draws together voices, memories, and musical lineages to create an album where avant-garde composition, personal narrative, and collective resonance exchange freely.The album opens with a radiant brass ensemble-chosen for it's popular, celebratory, spiritual sound-and closes with the Piccolo Coro Angelico, the children's choir she has worked with for over fifteen years and calls Inchmy best school of composition and a constant gym of hope.Inch Between these bookends, Tarozzi's songs trace life's transitions with a rare tenderness childhood into adolescence, health into fragility, presence into absence.Two central songs-her own InchLuccioleInch and a glowing live-in-studio cover of Milton Nascimento's InchRiver PhoenixInch-honor a beloved friend whose life and presence evoke new horizons. InchCorallo e perle,Inch inspired by a dream her grandfather had after her grandmother's passing, becomes a gentle, dreamlike meditation on the persistence of love.The strings, voices, and melodic contours that define Mi specchio e rifletto reappear here with new warmth and depth. Produced by Tarozzi in close collaboration with Marta Salogni, who engineered and mixed the album, Lucciole carries a clarity, intimacy, and sonic generosity that reflect their shared journey through the recording process.At it's heart, Lucciole is an album about small lights carried through moments of transition-an invitation to listen closely to the places where life changes, and to the people, living and remembered, who illuminate the way. Album Tracks 1. Distratta 2. 888 3. Frutti Acerbi 4. L'airone 5. Brass on the Rocks 6. Sun 7. La Quercia 8. Code 9. Lucciole 10. Cora

Inspired by the poetry of Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, Italian violinist-composer Silvia Tarozzi turned to the song form after being involved for many years in contemporary music and free improvisation. Over the course of nearly a decade, Tarozzi practiced setting the poetry of Alda Merini to music and then replacing it with her own to reflect her own life experiences. As a result, Mi specchio e rifletto is a wondrous combination of baroque folk, avant-garde, and progressive music art-song that feels both poetic and earnestly autobiographical. Echoes of past masterpieces reverberate throughout the gentle chamber explorations of Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the science fiction of Franco Battiato's 'Fetus', the abstract free jazz flourishes of Maria Monti's 'Il Bestiario', the sweetness of Caterina Casseli's 'Primavera'. As a solo performer, Tarozzi is a long time collaborator with composers Eliane Radigue, Pascale Criton, Cassandra Miller and Martin Arnold. In duo with Deborah Walker, and as a member of Ensemble Dedalus, she has worked with Christian Wolff, Ju¨rg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Catherine Lamb, Se´bastien Roux, and many others. She previously released Philip Corner 'Extreemizms early & late' on Unseen Worlds in 2018. Album Tracks 1. Al Cancello 2. La Forza Del Canto 3. La Sostanza Dell'affetto 4. Mi Specchio E Rifletto 5. Domina 6. Hai Nella Bocca Un Silenzio 7. Astuta 8. Spazio 9. ... E Non Volevi Le Ali 10. Che Cos'e' Una Primavera 11. Siedimi Accanto 12. L'assenza 13. Al Balcone 14. Sembra Neve 15. Parlavi Di Un Bambino 16. XXX Anna

Guido Alberto Fano's vocal chamber works form an important part of his musical output and mark the three crucial phases of his artistic growth. His earliest songs date from the last years of the 19th century, during his period of training and the start of his musical career in Bologna, using texts by local poets such as Angelina de Leva, Luigi Arturo Bresciani and Giuseppe Lipparini. Then, during the first fifteen years of the 20th century, his most InchexperimentalInch years, Fano began to draw inspiration from some of the most distinguished names in Italian poetry, including Boccaccio, Carducci and Pascoli. Finally, his last creative period, after the 1930s, saw a return to the vocal genre with seven pieces on poems by D'Annunzio and one by Carducci, all written in 1945. Fano usually calls his vocal compositions InchcantiInch, a choice often shared by his colleagues of the so-called Inchgeneration of the eightiesInch. On the whole, Fano's music reveals a commitment to avoid stereotypes and surrendering to the vestiges of easy appeal, demonstrating the composer's sensitivity in responding to the ethical demands of modernity, with that determined solicitude which characterised the inner workings of the great composers of the early 20th century. - Vitale Fano Album Tracks 1. No. 1. O Strana Bimba [01 59] 2. No. 2. O Falce Di Luna Calante [01 40] 3. No. 3. La Stornellatrice [03 43] 4. No. 4. È Il Pomeriggio Tacito [02 25] 5. No. 5. Per Te Germogli L'ecloga a LI Ozii [02 03] 6. No. 6. Si Frangono L'acque Odorose [01 26] 7. No. 7.... a L'avvenire [06 48] 8. Ad Annie [02 40] 9. No. 1. La Vergine Dorme [02 01] 10. No. 2. Stupisce Le Placide Vene [01 46] 11. No. 3. Un Figlio! Che Posa Nel Letto Suo Vergine! [01 55] 12. No. 4. Si Dondola Dondola Dondola [01 27] 13. No. 5. Il Lume Inquieto Ora Salta Guizzando [02 25] 14. Le Lis [03 53] 15. No.