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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

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