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Andrea Mannucci
Melologues of Solitude
T
wo first performances for Andrea Mannucci within the
space of a month. Solo for flute, the sixth episode of
Homunculus for reciting voice and wind quintet, will be
played by Roberto Fabbriciani on October 4 in
Wellington (New Zealand). The composer tells us:
«While I was working on the composition of the
melologue Homunculus on a text by Marco Ongaro,
I received a commission from Roberto Fabbriciani for a
piece for solo flute. This prompted me to write the sixth
episode of the melologue, whose atmosphere is defined
in the libretto as “solitary” and “tense”, for solo flute».
On November 4 the 5th Festival of the Ned Ensemble,
in the Auditorium Celesti in Desenzano, will include the
premiere of Novembre dei vivi, melologue for reciting
voice and piano on a text by Marco Ongaro, with Paolo
Valerio, reciting voice, and Maurizio Baglini, piano.
Mannucci speaks about the new piece: «The curse of
the Sibyl, immortal and forever aging, is the photograph
of the new western era, that of forced survival, of
resistance to diseases that are increasingly less
definitive, always possible to postpone in the illusion of
an eternity that must not pass through death. The
November of the dead, with its fog deceived by a sun
that protracts the fine season beyond its time, becomes
that of the living and reflects the uncertain condition of
the long-living now precluded from the splendour of a
youth pushed beyond its usual term. The essential
dilemma between procreation and sterility, between
balance and imbalance, having arrived at the age of
consumption after all the preventive measures have
played out their period of competence, now explodes,
to the amazement of the survivor who clings to a
longevity protracted in polemic with the natural period of
fertility assigned to the living. The wish to reflect on the
ascent of an agony, or the descent into hell of a
persistence that begs to end in the necessary rebirth,
necessary for death just as death is for a new
beginning. The bodies move away and are replaced by
5 th Festival of the Ned Ensemble
The 5 th Festival of the Ned Ensemble will take place
between November 2012 and March 2013 in
collaboration with the Concert Season “Città di
Desenzano”, of which Mannucci is the artistic director.
The current edition will be more ambitious and
purposeful, thanks to the well-disposed support of the
Cultural director of the municipality of Desenzano
Antonella Soccini and the mayor Rosa Leso. The
peculiarity of the Festival is that each concert will
include the work of a contemporary composer in order
to help the public to extend their knowledge of new
Ivan Vandor
With an Extra Theme
I
van Vandor’s new chamber work will be premiered on
November 12 at the Teatro Olimpico, during the
season of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. The
new Klavierquartett for violin, viola, cello and piano was
written in 2011 for the Quartetto Klimt, dedicatees of the
piece, who will give the work its premiere in Rome.
The composer tells us: «The formal structure follows
tradition for it is based on the two-themed “Sonata form”
(the second theme taking its inspiration from a Jewish
melody), but with the addition of a summarizing coda
that also contains a third element». This Autumn
Vandor’s In memoriam Tadeusz Moll can be heard in
two versions: for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and
piano on October 26 in the Palazzo della Cultura in
Latina during the Festival Pontino di Musica, Incontri
others that are ever less pertinent, the
organic structures and the spectres are
subjected to repair while the balance of a
life clashes with the uncertainty of its
length, with the mirage of an infiniteness
permeated with the probability of a lottery.
Those who are missing from the roll-call
in the new season, who abandon the
stage willingly or unwillingly, suggest a
sense of prematurity in those that remain,
a vain impulse to move the frontier of a
nature that instead imposes deadlines, sonorous and
sudden like the proverbial tolling of the bell. The
recreative landscape echoes with the empty spaces left
by the departed, like a cemetery camouflaged as the
rented space of a Summer bar, and the new resilient
question themselves about the perimeter of the prison,
about its extension and its true field, between the
perceivable and the remote beyond. Even love has the
ephemeral taste of an aperitif repeated without
enthusiasm, without the inebriation of one time.
Composed between the end of 2011 and the start of
2012, fruit of a lively association with Marco Ongaro
now confirmed through a lasting collaboration,
Novembre dei vivi is a contemporary melologue, an
artistic reflection that, between poetic and musical
creation, attempts to intensify reciprocally the sense of
the one and the other towards a deeper existential
meditative dimension. The act of composition triggers
an indissoluble bond with the text through the
interaction of a double dramaturgy, musical and scenic,
a bond organized metrically by the rhythmic
architecture provided by the word which generates
sounds, harmonic fields, agglomerates of rhythms and
timbres. Meaning and sound thus lead a “double life” in
a horizontal and vertical duet traversing a spectrum of
an event that is at once concrete and abstract, emotive
and intellectual».
music. The featured artists will include names such as
I Virtuosi Italiani, the duo Silvia Chiesa and Maurizio
Baglini, the duo Roberto Fabbriciani and Massimiliano
Damerini, the Quartetto Prometeo, Giorgio Gaslini
with Laura Conti and the Ned Ensemble. The
contemporary works will include, among others,
Giorgio Colombo Taccani’s Restless White, Goffredo
Petrassi’s Romanzetta, Ivan Fedele’s Palimpsest, 4 th
string Quartet, and a monographic concert focusing
on Giorgio Gaslini’s Recital Song Book.
Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea, with the
Divertimento Ensemble directed by Sandro Gorli; and
for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello on
December 2 in the Sala Casella of the Accademia
Filarmonica Romana, who co-produces the concert
together with the Festival di Nuova Consonanza.
Stefano Cardi will conduct the Freon Ensemble.
Finally, Silences Horizons Espaces - Parte 1 for
orchestra will be given its first performance in its
definitive version on November 22 and 23 at the Teatro
Savoia in Campobasso, with the Orchestra Stabile del
Molise conducted by Franco Piersanti. The piece is the
first part of a longer composition for orchestra in three
movements still to be completed.
Two melologues, one finished,
the other in progress, at the
centre of the composer’s creativity
New chamber work at the
Accademia Filarmonica Romana,
performances at the Pontino and
Nuova Consonanza Festivals
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