Franco Mirenzi - Al ritorno

from the Cd "...al ritorno"
http://www.mirenzi.it/CD...al%20ritorno/cd%20al%20ritorno.htm

Franco Antonio Mirenzi sites:
http://www.mirenzi.it
http://www.youtube.com/user/mirenzi1959
http://www.myspace.com/mirenzi
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mirenzi/47383978463


Critical notes by Roberto Giuliani:

Franco Antonio Mirenzi has a gift for lightness and the art of hinting. The diverse compositional techniques he employs are left, vaguely outlined, in the background, often with a sort of self-addressed irony, yet bowing to a—still recognizable—musical past.

The works included in this CD form a brief sample of keyboard resources, with excursions in the realms of violin and cello. They all belong in Mirenzi's most recent output, but for a couple of slightly older pieces, and often manage to conjure up visual imagery, which makes them potentially ideal soundtracks.

As we listen, the flow of time calls for our attention. It is often stretched—thus originating vast episodes in a minimalist vein—or squeezed, as in some abrupt endings, breaking all formal symmetry and leaving us helpless, as if the composer were teasing our wish to listen again.

... al ritorno, for cello and piano (September 2005) soon makes clear its very nature—a tribute to Bach. The opening section takes its imprinting from a haunting quote, namely, the first three pitches from Bach's cello Suite No. 1, originally forming a perfect fifth and a major sixth, subsequently stretched along the way. Those same intervals, now in contrary motion, are passed on to the piano in the following Moderato. Here, echoes of minimalism lead to repeated chords, suggesting a stretto which in turn yields to the original tempo, Lento con espressione. Finally, the recapitulation of the opening line is compressed into few bars. Here is one of those above-mentioned instances of an almost hurried ending, leaving us with a hunger for more, and virtually triggering a kind of circular perception.

traslation by Marcello Piras




Critical notes on original Italian version by Roberto Giuliani:
http://www.mirenzi.it/CD...al%20ritorno/le%20note%20di%20roberto%20giuliani.htm

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[christel1342]

so beautiful !

well done !

[anamrara]

@paulprocopolis no. cinzia damiani piano and maurizio gambini cello

[anamrara]

@paulprocopolis

no cinzia damiani piano e maurizio gambini cello

[paulprocopolis]

Sorry - I've just noticed that the performers are shown at the beginning of the video!

[paulprocopolis]

Very engaging music! The Bach origins are certainly detectable but there also seems to be something of Arvo Part in the outer sections. I presume the performers areCinzia Damiani ('cello) and Maurizio Gambini (piano).