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Le Favole Di Esopo / Salmo XIX (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (minimal wear and creasing) Includes 6-page LP-size insert. Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), one of Italy's most refined and enigmatic modernist composers, is showcased here in two contrasting vocal works. Le Favole di Esopo (Aesop's Fables) transforms ancient tales into delicate, pointillistic sound-worlds of extraordinary refinement and wit. Salmo XIX brings sacred text to life through Castiglioni's ch…
Das Atmende Klarsein (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 8-page LP-size insert. Luigi Nono's Das atmende Klarsein (1980-83) inaugurates the composer's final creative phase – a profound turn toward fragility, spatial listening, and live electronics. Composed for bass flute, small choir, and live electronics in intense collaboration with flutist Roberto Fabbriciani at Freiburg's legendary Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, this visionary work explores the very limits of perception. Texts drawn fr…
Suoni Notturni / Seconda Serenata~Trio / Nunc / Alias (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003), towering figure of Italian 20th-century composition and teacher of Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi e Cornelius Cardew, and Morricone, presents four exquisite works for guitar and chamber ensemble composed between 1959 and 1977. Suoni Notturni (1959), dedicated to painter Afro Basaldella, evokes phantasmagorical nocturnal atmospheres inspired by Basaldella's painting Notturno. Seconda Serenata-Trio (1962) blends guitar with harp and …
Estri / Tre Per Sette / Serenata / Beatitudines (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX
La Viola Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni. This collection represents the finest contemporary viola writing from Italy's post-war generation of composers, each exploring the instrument's expressive possibilities through distinctive compositional languages. From Sciarrino's delicate so…
Il Flauto Contemporaneo (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX A definitive document of contemporary flute repertoire by two legendary Italian interpreters! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the most celebrated flutist of the post-war avant-garde, collaborated with virtually every major composer of his generation, inspiring countless works and redefining the instrument's possibilities. Joined by pianist Bruno Canino, this recording presents an extraordinary program balancing Italian masters with Japanese composers: Niccolò Cas…
7 Per Petrassi - Festival Fontino Di Musica 1984 (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable tribute to one of Italy's most influential composers! This album honors Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) with his own Inno alongside six commissioned works by distinguished international composers: Elliott Carter's Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi, Armando Gentilucci's Metafore del Tempo, Gérard Grisey's Anubis et Nout, Donald Martino's Canzone sul Nome Petrassi, Luis de Pablo's Dos Epigramas de Marcial, Cristóbal Halffter's Dialogo, a…
