Giorgio Gaslini

Sprint is a symphonic ballet that Giorgio Gaslini (Milan 1929, Parma 2014) wrote in 1998, credited on the disc both for the music and for the subject of the ballet itself. It came when the composer, conductor and pianist was writing a good deal for dance. The same year Soul Note issued his Ballets, with Carmen Graffiti and Dodici minuti all'alba recorded in Milan in 1995 and 1997 for his jazz quartet with strings and winds. Sprint moves the idea to a full symphony orchestra, and this disc presents the whole ballet in a single live performance from the theatre where it was played.

It was recorded at the Teatro Sociale of Rovigo in October 1998 by the Orchestra del Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, playing in collaboration with the city's Conservatorio F. Venezze, under Alberto Martelli. Ugo Bolzoni was the sound engineer, and Mario Pasi wrote the liner notes in Italian and English. The score runs fifty-five minutes without a break and is laid out in six scenes, from an opening scene of just over twelve minutes to a closing one of about six. In between, the second scene lasts about ten minutes, the third and fourth around eight each, and the fifth almost eleven.

CD on La Bottega Discantica, catalogue number DISCANTICA 52, released in 1999.