GCD P30917 - Naxos Music Library
GCD P30917 - Naxos Music Library
GCD P30917 - Naxos Music Library
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ENGLISH<br />
a few ideas to the notes which you have written.<br />
C: Yes, of course, but the final result is that my composition<br />
is unrecognisable!<br />
c: It doesn’t come over like that to me... Have you<br />
heard our recording?<br />
C: Actually, no. But I am sure that you have been<br />
mucking about with my music. I bet that you have<br />
been using percussion instruments!<br />
c: That’s right, I have made use of drums...<br />
C: I knew it! I can’t bear that kind of racket and I certainly<br />
don’t like hearing it in my music. Why should I<br />
have bothered to write in L’Orfeo which instruments<br />
were to be played, if then everyone uses those which<br />
they fancy!<br />
c: You’re right... well, in my case with L’Orfeo I stuck<br />
to your indications.<br />
C: Thank goodness for that! But on this recording,<br />
that doesn’t seem to be the case!<br />
c: The thing is that within your music there is something<br />
modern, something new and innovatory which<br />
encourages one to dare, to go further.<br />
C: Yes my idea was precisely that, to modernize, that<br />
is what I always said and what I always wrote. Talking<br />
of that, what do you think of my Lamento della<br />
ninfa... You don’t think that it is a bit too daring, do<br />
you?<br />
c: It is my favourite piece. It seems to me that it is<br />
the prologue to modern music.<br />
C: And how do you play it? In the same way as they<br />
all do? And that’s having spelt out my idea about it<br />
clearly at the beginning of the piece...<br />
8<br />
c: Try and hear our version, then tell me if I have got<br />
close to your idea...<br />
C: ... Are there percussion instruments as well?<br />
c: No, here I have added a saxophone.<br />
C: Ah, yes, one of those modern instruments...<br />
c: Well, you know, I couldn’t resist it. The Lamento<br />
seems to have been expressly written for this instrument.<br />
Maestro, have you ever heard Billie Holliday or<br />
Sarah Vaughan singing?<br />
C: No...<br />
c: I think that you would have liked them. They<br />
always sing in a way that follows the heart’s tempo.<br />
C: Splendid. But, can you help me to hear them?<br />
c: Of course, I’ll lend you a couple of discs, but you’ll<br />
have to give me them back afterwards; I’m very fond<br />
of them, you know.<br />
C: Naturally. Maybe, once I have heard them, I will<br />
find the inspiration for creating a new madrigal, a<br />
new emotion, with which to set to music.<br />
c: Now, that would be marvellous, Maestro.<br />
CLAUDIO CAVINA<br />
translated by Mark Wiggins