Daniele Lombardi
Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017) was an Italian pianist, composer, and musicologist of extraordinary versatility. A leading authority on Futurist music, he reconstructed and performed works by Luigi Russolo and other early avant-garde pioneers while creating his own highly original compositions. His output spanned solo piano works, multimedia installations, electronic music, and large-scale projects involving multiple pianos.
Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017) was an Italian pianist, composer, and musicologist of extraordinary versatility. A leading authority on Futurist music, he reconstructed and performed works by Luigi Russolo and other early avant-garde pioneers while creating his own highly original compositions. His output spanned solo piano works, multimedia installations, electronic music, and large-scale projects involving multiple pianos.
Costellazione (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (very light damp staining + light bump near edge + sticker removal residue on front) No insert. A constellation of avant-garde piano! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2018), brilliant Italian pianist, composer, and musicologist, presents a stunning program bridging historical avant-garde and contemporary experimentation. Lombardi was renowned for his fearless interpretations of the most demanding repertoire – from…
Per Pianoforte 1976/79 (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- An essential document of Daniele Lombardi's (1946-2017) virtuosic and visionary piano work! This Edipan release presents a collection of solo piano pieces composed between 1976 and 1979, showcasing Lombardi's unique position at the intersection of multiple avant-garde traditions. A pianist, composer, and musicologist of extraordinary range, Lombardi was equally at home performing Futurist reconstructions, contemporary repertoire, and his own highly original compo…
Grande Notturno A Gargonza (Poema Di Suoni, Segni E Luci Colorate Per Tre Pianoforti E Tape/Computer Music) (2LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX Gatefold sleeve. Includes 28-page book. Daniele Lombardi's Grande Notturno A Gargonza (Great Nocturne at Gargonza) is an ambitious "poem of sounds, signs and colored lights" for three pianos and tape/computer music. Recorded live May 18th, 1982 at the medieval Castle of Gargonza in Tuscany, performed by Lombardi, Stefano Fiuzzi, and Riccardo Risaliti. The electronic component was realized in groundbreaking collaboration with Pietro Grossi at the CNUCE of Pisa, usi…
Metropolis - Per Intonarumori E Computer Music (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM. Futurism reborn through digital technology! Daniele Lombardi pays radical homage to Luigi Russolo and the Futurist intonarumori (noise intoners) in this visionary work combining reconstructed noise machines with cutting-edge computer music and digital cut-up techniques. Metropolis reimagines the sonic violence and urban cacophony of early 20th-century Futurism through contemporary electronic means, creating a powerful bridge between historical avant-garde and digit…
Musica Futurista (8CD box)
condition (discs/cover): M/EX (still sealed but box has minimal wear) A pioneering voice in Italian experimental music! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017), distinguished pianist, composer and musicologist, dedicated much of his career to preserving and reinterpreting the revolutionary music of Italian Futurism. This comprehensive 8-CD box set presents a complete survey of his work in this field - from meticulous reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonarumori compositions to performances of works by F…
Labirinti / Babele (book)
condition (book): LIKE NEW 27x21cm., full-color 144-page, softbound book. An essential publication documenting the visionary work of pianist, composer and musicologist Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017)! This volume explores Lombardi's ambitious project involving twenty-one pianos - a monumental installation and performance concept that exemplifies his expansive approach to sound, space, and the piano as both instrument and sculptural object. The book examines themes of labyrinth and Babel - metaphors…
Musica Futurista 2
2006 release ** A selection of futurist music by Francesco Balilla Pratella, Da Ardengo Soffici, Gabriella Bartolomei, Franco Casavola, Carmine Guarino, Ricky.
Faustimmung
1994 release ** For voice, 5 pianos, cello., tape, video, multivision and live electronics.
Musica Futurista 1
1992 release ** "A selection of futurist music which combines some very rare audio documents that have survived (for example, the Chorale by Antonio Russolo) with piano reinterpretations by the composer Daniele Lombardi."
Early Piano Music
2002 release ** "This CD mainly consists of very early pieces by Arthur Vincent Lourié, heavily under the spell of Scriabin & Romanticism."
Atalanta Fugiens
"Audio Verbal Visual Route. Artist's book that illustrates the sound performance realized during the musical events organized by Milano Suono in Rimini and Milan in June 1990. Afterword by Giovanni Conti. 16mo (cm 25x18). pp. 94."
Futurpiano
Futurpiano showcases three influential avant-garde composers associated with the Futurist movement, by way of piano music composed between 1913 and 1933.
Arthur-Vincent Lourie was the first Russian Futurist musician, and a signatory of the original St Petersburg Manifesto in 1914. The five Syntheses written that same year offer a form of dodecaphony, while Formes en l'air from 1915 is a Cubo-Futurist conception using an innovative form of notation, dedicated to Pablo Picasso.
Born in the Ukraine…
Costellazione Seconda
Constellazione Seconda is the follower of the Lombardi 1978 "Costellazione" a piano sound exploration based upon a map of sky constellation, planned as the first step of a large work focused on the exposition and 'performance' of constellations maps, planetaria and maps of the heavens. This new work breaks up into 21 short piano movements, concentrating on incredibly short staccato notes that sting violently between fractured harmonics leaving plenty of momentum-puncturing silences to really he…
Le son des ténèbres
Art edition including an LP with the recordings at the Istituto della Calcografia Nazionale in Rome of 2 world premiere compositions by Philip Corner and Daniele Lombardi. Issued in 80 signed and numbered copies and including excerpts form the original scores. Philip Corner “Tenebres: Lesson&Light” (Studies in Shadow and Light), learning from the dark the grand lesson of music. The darkest sound in musici s the tone-cluster. Approximation of the even denser aggregates existent already in …
Albumblatter
raro libro d'artista, consistente in una cartella a fogli sciolti, cm. 28,4 x 14,3; pp. (19) in cartoncino stampati in nero. "La composizione è costituita da 13 fogli mobili che si montano in ordine non prestabilito come le carte degli alfabeti/paesaggi del settecento. Il pianista deve eseguire tre volte i tredici fogli nella stessa serata. Ogni volta farà mescolare ad una persona del pubblico la partitura come se fosse un mazzo di carte." (dalla seconda pag. non num.) Edizione originale in quat…