Con grande piacere il 18 dicembre 2024 ho ricevuto il Premio Vigilia di Natale elargito dall’Amministrazione comunale di Latisana.
La motivazione:
“In considerazione dell’importante affermazione a livello internazionale quale Direttore d’orchestra, compositore e musicologo affermatosi con prestigiosi riconoscimenti dai più rinomati istituti internazionali di cultura quale Harvard University e Yale University nonché per il conseguimento della docenza nell’istituto di fama mondiale Conservatorio G. Verdi di Milano”
Il premio viene istituto per onorare quei latisanesi che abbiano illustrato la loro terra di origine, distinguendosi nei campi ove si applica l’umano ingegno, nei campi della scienza, tecnica, arti liberali; nell’economia, lavoro, scienza o attività sociale e politica; nella cultura, sport, spettacolo.
UNQUESTIONABLE ANSWERS is pervaded by a chorale played by strings, which expands and contracts. Some tinkling glockenspiels and heavily filtered white noise are added in the highest part of the spectrum. The elaboration of the parts generates tensive crescendos which culminate in explosions. The decays of the blasts are characterized by arpeggi of synthesized plucks, in stochastic major/minor chords. All the music materials are based on the tone row discovered by Anton Webern in his unfinished opus 32. The title is a reversed quotation of Unanswered Question by Charles Ives. In my composition I testify the complete overturning of the meaning of Ives’ masterpiece. The contemporary human being can not ask questions, can not search for answers, can not pursue a higher meaning and can not seek for a teleological meaning of the existence. The real questions are banned. The answers are pre-established, inculcated in the masses and in every human being since its conception. While incapable of questioning, the contemporary human being must follow ready-made answers, with operose passiveness, as imposed by the contemporary society. We are running frantically in order to stay still while the universe and the immutable celestial stars evolve. The piece takes inspiration from, and thus is dedicated to, Aldous Huxley (for his Brave New World Revisited) and to Giorgio Agamben (for his Homo Sacer).
ATTRAVERSO (THROUGHOUT) Luigi Russolo’s writings, paintings and thoughts about the futuristic orchestra gave birth to the modern poetics of composition. The noise of urbanized cities, of technology, and also of weapons, is integrated in the so-called “classical” music. Everything is noise, or the silence is noise… the boundaries between organized sound and noise are overcome. From a philosophical perspective, randomness (indetermination) is absolute, and the idea itself is overcome by the concept of integration of a deterministic randomness, or by a rational indetermination. My sound experimentations begun with a survey on noise: random noise, pseudo-random noise (as generated by computers), or “unrepeating random noise”, in which all samples are unique. I generated one second of an unrepeating random noise at 48KHz, which I used as a ground for the ideas of this composition. It is an interesting concept, since the randomness of the samples following the first sample decreases with the number of samples generated, until the last one which is necessary. I downsampled this second of generated unrepeating noise, finding a tone row, and I evaluated the potential of the pitch classes. After deciding the structure of the piece and some tone colors, I composed freely. Eventually I used some previous samples of mine which fitted with the overall sound/noise. The first part is sidereal. A few kinds of glockenspiels are generated from the noise passing throughout some filters with self-resonance and resonators. The crescendi are made by granular delays. At minute 3 there are some stable pitches made with a reversed reverbered granular harp, with stretched waveforms. Over this, around 4 minutes and 30 seconds there is chorale played by a string orchestra, made upon the tone-row of the previous glockenspiels and resonators. Around minute 8 there is an arpeggiator on randomized minor chords and a random drum. This piece is a tribute to the composer from Portogruaro, to his coherence, to his vitality and dynamism, to his theories and artistic output, which, throughout times, still inspires us.
Emy Bernecoli and Elia Andrea Corazza are proud to announce the first live recording of the rediscovered Sarabanda P015a by Ottorino Respighi.
The Sarabanda for violin and piano (P015a) is a short composition consisting of three pages dated 1897, here published for the first time. The original manuscript is part of the private archive of Potito Pedarra, cataloguer of Ottorino Respighi’s legacy. Ottorino Respighi composed this work during his juvenile years, together with the Sonata in D minor (1897, P015), the Giga (P015b) and the Allegretto vivace (P015c), all of them for violin and piano.
This is a live recording of the composition based on its manuscript. It has been recorded during an Italian tour of the violinist Emy Bernecoli and the pianist Elia Andrea Corazza
Tournedos alla Rossini musiche di Gioachino Rossini orchestrazioni di Elia Andrea Corazza Drammaturgia Paolo V. Montanari Direttore Elia Andrea Corazza Regia Yamal das Irmich Elementi di scena Stefano Canzoneri Costumi Marja Hoffmann
Orchestra del Teatro Massimo
Personaggi e interpreti
Gioachino Rossini Roberto Burgio Adelina Patti Noemi Muschetti / Federica Maggì Marius Luciani Paride Cicirello Antonio Tamburini Daniele Muratori Caputo / Francesco Bossi
ABSTRACT: Ottorino ed Elsa Respighi trovarono nel Conte Chigi Saracini un lungimirante mecenate, un competente musicista e un amico appassionato. Con l’Accademia Chigiana il Conte creò un punto d’incontro internazionale tra musicisti, artisti, intellettuali: un crocevia tra epoche storiche, dove si scopriva il passato per inventare il futuro. Grazie ai contatti con il Conte Chigi, Sebastiano A. Luciani, Arrigo Serato, Olga Rudge, Bianca Chigi, Luisa Bàccara, qui indagati, Respighi compose nuove musiche (Lauda per la natività del Signore e la Suite della tabacchiera, 1930) e orchestrò musiche precedenti, oggi riscoperte (E se un giorno tornasse, Respighi, 1930; Vivaldi, Sonata in Re maggiore rv10; Bach, Corale Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland). Custode dei manoscritti di Respighi durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, il Conte ricevette in dono da Elsa numerosi manoscritti del marito, tra cui alcuni autografi della Campana sommersa, ora conservati nella Biblioteca dell’Accademia Chigiana.
[ENGLISH] Ottorino and Elsa Respighi at the Accademia Chigiana: discovering the past to conceive the future. For Ottorino and Elsa Respighi, the Count Chigi Saracini has been a visionary patron, an experienced musician, and a devoted friend. With the Accademia Chigiana, the Count created a meeting point for musicians, artists, intellectuals: an intersection of historical eras, where the past was discovered in order to conceive the future. Hither I investigated Respighi’s contacts with the Count Chigi, Sebastiano A. Luciani, Arrigo Serato, Olga Rudge, Bianca Chigi, Luisa Bàccara, which lead to the composition of new music (Lauda per la natività del Signore and Suite della tabacchiera, 1930) and the orchestration of pieces of the past, now rediscovered (E se un giorno tornasse, Respighi, 1930; Vivaldi, Sonata in Re maggiore rv10; Bach, Corale Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland). Custodian of Respighi’s scores during World War II, Count Chigi received as a gift from Elsa several manuscripts of Ottorino, including some autographs of La campana sommersa, now hosted at the library of the Accademia Chigiana.
Qui potete ascoltare e vedere la registrazione live della relazione “Elsa e Ottorino: i Respighi a Palazzo Chigi Saracini – fra riscoperta del passato e invenzione del futuro”
Qui l’intervento musicale di Emy Bernecoli al violino, accompagnata da Elia Andrea Corazza al pianoforte, in Vivaldi, Sonata RV10, Largo.
