Franco Mirenzi - La Notte (una)

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

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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.

La notte (una), for piano, violin, and cello (2004), has the composer trying his hand at a sort of descriptive music, although based on sparse material. However, meanings are about as scanty as musical means. The suggested night is not "The Night". Rather, it is one among many existing nights—the composer's personal one, or the one when the piece was written, or when we listen to it. At any rate, it is no random night; in fact, it is a very special one, being thought of—and shaped—by means of a twelve-tone row. This, toward the end, opens up to an outright E-flat major triad—perhaps a positive marker, or a desecrating one, or a "mistake" intentionally left in. Such chord alters our expectations, only partly restored in the final bars, once again intentionally over-squeezed, ending a la manière de Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

traslation by Marcello Piras

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

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