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February 19 2018

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February 19 2018

Music Web International: Sciortino, Chamber Music for Piano and Strings

The Italian pianist and composer Orazio Sciortino wrote the four works performed in this disc between 2012-13. He’s the only composer known to me to be able to wear the mantle of Krug Ambassador, the champagne firm having commissioned him to write a piece, which he has duly done: it’s due to be released by Sony. Let’s hope it’s sparkling. As h...


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November 08 2017

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November 08 2017

Pizzicato.lu: Musik des Sizilianers Orazio Sciortino

Der 1984 im sizilianischen Siracusa geborene Orazio Sciortino ist als Pianist wohl eher bekannt denn als Komponist. Doch auch als Tonsetzer ist er erfolgreich. Das ‘Ambra Piano Trio’ und das ‘Swiss Music Ensemble New Wave’ spielen seinen sehr expressiven und rhetorisch angelegten ‘Diario di un poeta’ für Cello und Klavier sowie sein Klaviertrio...


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November 08 2017

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November 08 2017

Kulturtipp: Leuchtende Klanggemälde, Orazio Sciortino

Im Begrif Kammermusik schwingen leise auch die Attribute klassisch und kanonisch mit. Wie schön also, die Erstaufnahmen von Kompositionen zu hören, die vor kurzem erst entstanden sind. Das Basler Pianotrio Ambra und das Streichensemble New Wave aus Zürich spielen Kammermusik von Orazio Sciortino, die klangliche Räumlichkeiten neu defnieren. Der...


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November 07 2017

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November 07 2017

Crescendo Magazine: Un Italien en Suisse

Le label suisse Claves publie un CD monographique de la musique d’Orazio Sciortino consacré à sa musique récente pour piano et cordes. Le programme débute par un duo violoncelle – piano, Journal d’un poète, une œuvre écrite en 2013, mais qui utilise aussi du matériau de 2004, des lieder sur des textes de Ungaretti à propos de la mort de son enf...


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November 07 2017

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November 07 2017

Gramophone (UK): SCIORTINO Chamber Music for Piano and Strings

Italian contemporary music has struggled to find renewed focus in recent years, with Orazio Sciortino (b1984) evidently among its leading lights. A formidable pianist (witness his set of opera transcriptions by Liszt and Tausig) as well as composer, the piano fairly dominates this disc of chamber works written during 2012‑13, but Diario di un p...


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September 22 2017

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September 22 2017

Musica: 5 Stelle for the last album of Benjamin Righetti

« Perché registrare un disco di organo nel 2016 ? Per arricchirsi, per guadagnare denaro? Assolutamente no. Per farsi ascoltare, per esistere nel nostro mondo musicale? Potrebbe essere. Per ascoltarsi, per far germogliare la cultura del proprio giardino interiore? Certamente. » Questa la speculazione con cui Benjamin Righetti apre le note del l...


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March 28 2017

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March 28 2017

Diapason Magazine: Schumann volume 6 par Cédric Pescia

La pochette du Volume VI de l'intégrale de l'oeuvre de Schumann - partagée entre l'Irlandais Finghin Collins (Volumes I et III), l'Italien Francesco Piemontesi (IV) et le Franco-Suisse Cédric Pescia (II, V et VI) - ne dit rien des précédents albums. Mais la première phrase du texte d'introduction nous apprend que la série arrive ici à son terme....


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December 08 2016

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December 08 2016

Musica: 5 Stelle for Baroqueswing Vol. II

Non solo Bach ma anche Gluck, Händel, Vivaldi. Una renaissance della musica barocca in salsa jazz dopo Jacques Loussier? Possibile e sorprendente con Charl du Plessis e i compagni che lo affiancano dal 2006. Prima curiosità: il disco contiene l’esibizione dal vivo, nel 2015, al Festival Musikdorf di Ernen in Svizzera. Che un trio di crossover, ...


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November 23 2016

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November 23 2016

Musica: Fornerod

Dobbiamo riconoscere lo scarso interesse dei media riguardo alla cultura musicale di non pochi paesi europei: il caso della Svizzera è, al riguardo, emblematico, nonostante non manchino i nomi di spicco, le iniziative e le istituzioni di altissimo livello, come dimostra anche il disco in esame: un vero e proprio ritratto artistico di un composit...


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March 07 2016

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March 07 2016

Classiquenews.com - CD, compte rendu critique. Cazzati : Messe et Psaumes opus 36

Premier album du jeune ensemble Voces Suaves Quelle bonne idée de publier enfin de la musique du Lombard Maurizio Cazzati, maestro di cappella à San Petronio, mais si décrié de son vivant – dans les années 1660, par ses “confrères jaloux” (Lorenzo Petri, Giulio Cesare Arresti), en raison de ses audaces harmoniques, comme le fut aussi au début...


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