* a work in progress album *
Armida Records 11-050323
artist: DAVIDE BANDIERI clarinet
FABRIZIO DE ROSSI RE (1960-)
Busoni Gespenst (Here and Now)
Fabrizio De Rossi Re – Busoni Gespenst (The Ghost of Busoni) is a piece written in 2015 in celebration of thc Clarinetfest of Madrid 2015, dedicated to Davide Bandieri and Alessandra Gentile. Through this piece De Rossi Re wanted to pay homage to Busoni, evoking his famous piece (sonata BV138 for clarinet and piano) as though ir were a spiritual expcrience. Thanks to this there are many recognisable elements in this piece, with others being more hidden and transfigured making them almost seem dreamlike.
De Rossi Re takes these elements, transfiguring them as to nearly show a ghost of the sonata, the ghost of Busoni.
EDUARDO MORALES-CASO (1969-)
Ashta Lakshmí (Here and Now)
“Ashta Lakshmí” (2015), dedicated to the exceptional artists and dear friends Davide Bandieri (Clarinet) and Alessandra Gentile (Piano), is an impressive fantasy for Clarinet and Piano with a solid compositive structure immersed in a universe of colours, textures, contrasts and inventive motivic-rhythmic elaboration . This work is inspired in “Ashta Lakshmí (“Eight Lakshmis”), a group of eight Hindu goddesses, secondary manifestations of Shri-Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, who presides over eight sources of wealth: “Wealth” in the context of Ashta-Lakshmi means prosperity, good health, knowledge, strength, fertility, and power. This exceptional sonorous register is a true “tour de force” and talent on all fronts.
WILLY MERZ (1964-)
Träumerei (Here and Now)
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Recorded at Classical Recording Studio – Perugia (Italy)
Piano: Fazioli F278
Tuner Technician: Diego Sciurpa
Sound Engineer and Recording Producer: Luca Ricci
Editing: Luca Tironzelli