In Terram Utopicam (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/VG+ (tiny stains on front) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleve. Walter Marchetti (1931-2015), co-founder of the legendary ZAJ collective in Madrid alongside Juan Hidalgo, presents three visionary works bridging concrete music, home-made electronics, and conceptual provocation. J'aimerais jouer avec un piano qui aurait une grosse queue (I would like to play with a piano that has a big tail, 1974-75) is a witty and subversive piano action documented at the Venice …
Suonando Rudemente Caramente (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX/VG+ (light wear) No insert. Roughly and dearly! Giuseppe Morrocchi (b. 1940), enigmatic Italian composer and pianist from San Casciano in Val di Pesa, delivers a striking collection of piano works that balance rawness with tenderness. The album's evocative title – Suonando Rudemente Caramente (Playing Roughly Dearly) – perfectly captures Morrocchi's distinctive aesthetic: a post-modern sensibility that embraces both harsh gesture and lyrical intimacy. Working at the …
.....Sofferte Onde Serene... / A Floresta È Jovem E Cheja De Vida (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 4-page LP-size insert. This essential Deutsche Grammophon release presents two defining works by Luigi Nono (1924-1990), towering figure of post-war Italian modernism. .....sofferte onde serene... (1976), dedicated to Pollini and his wife Marilisa, is a haunting meditation for piano and magnetic tape, recorded at Munich's Herkulessaal. Inspired by the bells of Venice's Giudecca and marked by personal tragedy, the work achieves profound beauty through the d…
Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz / Y Entonces Comprendió (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX/EX. Luigi Nono's shattering Como una ola de fuerza y luz (1971-72) mourns Luciano Cruz, young leader of Chile's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), who died tragically at 27. This monumental work for soprano, piano, orchestra, and magnetic tape – dedicated "para vivir" (that he may live) – unleashes waves of orchestral violence, haunting tape interventions, and piercing vocal lines from texts by Argentine poet Julio Huasi. Maurizio Pollini's piano cuts through with ha…
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
Musica Per Percussione (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934), distinguished composer and longtime professor of composition at Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia, presents her percussion works in this focused collection. Winner of the Viotti Competition, Casella Prize, and San Francisco International String Quartet Competition, Procaccini has created a vast catalog of over 150 works blending neoclassical values with bold rhythmic invention inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. Her percussion writing e…
Musica Da Camera (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . A prolific composer with over 150 compositions spanning opera, orchestral, chamber, and band music, Procaccini has developed a distinctive voice balancing neoclassical values with modern expression. Trained under Fernando Germani (organ) and Virgilio Mortari (composition), her chamber music showcases sophisticated formal construction, lyrical melodic invention, and rhythmic vitality inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. These works feature diverse instrumental combin…
Musica Per Chitarra, Pianoforte E Orchestra (CD)
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM. Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934) showcases her mastery of concertante writing in this spectacular collection featuring guitar, piano, and orchestra. Performed by the exceptional duo of guitarist Lapo Vannucci and pianist Luca Torrigiani with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicola Giuliani, the program includes Procaccini's Concerto for Guitar, Piano and Orchestra Op. 246 (2017) – a work of joyful vivaciousness, lyrical intimacy, and elegant wit. The central Andan…
Jointly (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise throughout) / EX+ . A pioneering voice in Italian contemporary music! Irma Ravinale (1937-2013), distinguished composer and educator, studied with Goffredo Petrassi at Rome's Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. This rare LP presents Jointly, a significant work from a composer who bridged Italian tradition with international avant-garde. A member of the International Honour Committee of F…
Enrico Renna (CD)
condition (disc/cover): M/M. Enrico Renna (b. 1952, Salento) is a significant Italian contemporary composer who studied with Umberto Rotondi in Milan and with Luigi Nono. This self-titled CD presents chamber, symphonic, electronic, and theatrical works by a composer whose music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.
Savinio, Musicien 1914 (Récital Mi-scénique Par Luigi Rognoni) (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire…
Savinio, Musicien 1914 (Récital Mi-scénique Par Luigi Rognoni) (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire's Les Soiré…
Quattro Pezzi / Pranam II / Okanagon / Kya (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX Gatefold sleeve. Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century music, presents four essential works exploring his revolutionary approach to sound. Scelsi's radical music focuses on the microtonal universe within single pitches – sound as living, breathing matter rather than melodic material.
Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) showcases his groundbreaking chamber orchestra aesthetic built on single notes. Pranam II creates ritual int…
Musique Sacrée (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A profound exploration of sacred music by one of Italy's most enigmatic composers! Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), whose work remained largely unknown until late in his career, created a unique compositional language centered on microtonal explorations and the inner life of single sounds. This rare Fy release presents his sacred works, revealing Scelsi's deeply spiritual approach to composition. Moving beyond traditional harmonic structures, these pi…
Sonetti A Orfeo (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise) / EX- (small tag on front) Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable collaboration between composer Fernando Sulpizi and virtuoso flutist Roberto Fabbriciani! This release explores contemporary possibilities of the flute through works inspired by Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. Fabbriciani, one of Italy's leading interpreters of new music and a close collaborator with composers including Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Sylvano Bussotti, brings his excepti…
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…
Oboe (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (2" stripe on front + spine wear + minimal ring wear). Distinguished oboist Lothar Faber presents world premiere recordings of works commissioned specifically for him by leading Italian composers and international figures. The program features Francesco Valdambrini's Dioie, Yoritsuné Matsudaira's Somakash, Lawrence Singer's Musica A 2, Giuseppe Sinopoli's Numquid, Bruno Maderna's Aulodia, and Bruno Bartol…
Luca Mosca - Pianoforte
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM A significant release featuring works by composer Luca Mosca (born 1957)! Mosca, who studied with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and later with Gérard Grisey in Paris, developed a distinctive compositional voice that synthesizes Italian post-war modernism with French spectral influences. Contemporary Italian music for piano by: Arduino Gottardo, Bruno Cerchio, Nicloas Bacri, Elisabetta Brusa, Alessandro Lucchetti, Paolo Ugoletti, Riccard…