GASLINI SYMPHONIC 3 - GASLINI

GASLINI SINFONICO 3 (CVLD197)

Author: GIORGIO GASLINI
Performer: GIORGIO GASLINI

Available on: CD, File CD

Tracks

01 - Short Symphony
02 - Of course, Beyond the River for flute and ten instruments
03 - Ter for soprano voice, violin, viola, cello and clarinet: No. 1, For centuries I've endured
04 - Ter for soprano voice, violin, viola, cello and clarinet: No. 2, I think of my rest
05 - Ter for soprano voice, violin, viola, cello and clarinet: No. 3, Here I come to the woods
06 - Beuys's Wood for baritone voice, small female choir, clarinet, cello, piano...
07 - Silver Concert for baritone saxophone and orchestra
08 - Elizabethan Suite for traverso, voice and piano: No. 1, Come Again
09 - Elizabethan Suite for traverso, voice and piano: No. 2, Sweetkate
10 - Elizabethan Suite for traverso, voice and piano: No. 3, Out Have / Sighted for him
11 - Elizabethan Suite for traverso, voice and piano: No. 4, Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover
12 - Elizabethan Suite for traverso, voice and piano: No. 5, When Laura Smiles
13 - Adagio Is Beautiful for 16 strings

Notes

Classical: original compositions by Giorgio Gaslini, lyrics by D. Margheriti, M. Bagnoli, W. Shakespeare. 01: Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra of Tomsk; 02 Icarus Ensemble, G. Gaslini Conductor, G. Mareggini flute solo; 03-05 A. Caiello soprano, A. Braga violin,, J. Imperial viola, S. Scotto cello, A. Teora clarinet, G. Gaslini conductor; 06 V. Jansons baritone, G. Ubaldi chorus conductor, Oak Ensemble, R. Bonati conductor; 07 International Orchestra of Italy conductor L. Jia, M. Mazzoni solo sax; 08-12 C. Cely flute and song, G. Gaslini piano; 13 International Symphony Orchestra “F. Fenaroli”, G. Gaslini conductor.

We leave it to the words of the renowned musicologist Quirino Principe, taken from his more detailed critical introduction in the booklet, to musically present this stimulating latest work by Giorgio Gaslini:

"The compositions presented in this CD are an exhilarating confirmation of Maestro Gaslini's qualities, always recognized in an artist whose style is beyond any critical reservation, and whose catalog contains no "minor" works. But the works heard here are also something more: they are great intellectual conceptions, aspiring to the construction of a "macro-form." In Short Symphony for orchestra, which opens the CD, the incipit is already a trauma: the raw irruption of sound, the oxymoron between the fanfare's blast and the mysterious aura whose sonority Gaslini seems to possess the exclusive secret, lead to a path full of twists and unexpected turns, through the unfolding of 12 sequentiae from which the composer asks for the deepest meaning of that scanning of time and nature which are the four seasons. They are explicitly declared not on the front of a section (as happens in other works of the great tradition too well known to need citing), but in internal areas: spring in the third sequence, summer in the seventh, autumn in the tenth, winter in the twelfth and last, perhaps with the enunciation of a subtle and resistant link between Gaslini's Largo (preceded by a cadenza full of tension) and the slow tempo of Vivaldi's Winter.
Naturally, it is a triptych that unites (effortlessly, indeed, "naturaliter" and "iuxta naturam") three works close in time, created within a short two-year period. Beyond the river (2007), a score for flute and 10 instruments that strikes us with the composer's miraculous ability to analyze and merge sounds, themes, and motifs through fast and elusive metamorphoses, opens with a fascinating archaism: the enunciation of the late-medieval melody known in Italy as Lamento di Tristano, immediately clad in iridescent colors, brought back to its nudity, then re-enveloped in polychrome garments. The central section of the triptych, Ter (2008), for soprano voice, violin, viola, and clarinet, develops, in an atmosphere comparable to the poetry of a Hellenistic idyll, along three lyrics on the classically clear verses of the Umbrian poetess Daniela Margheriti: "For centuries I have endured," "And I think of my rest," "Here I come to the woods." The concluding section, Beuys's Wood (2008), prepared, in the composer's strategy and métis, by the third and last of the Ter lyrics, has a sung text, taken from an interview by Marco Bagnoli with the sculptor and painter Joseph Beuys (Krefeld, Thursday, May 12, 1921 – Düsseldorf, Thursday, January 23, 1986). Beuys's figure is, among other things, one of the symbolic experiences of art and thought that motivated the research on Gaslini's music carried out over the years by the aforementioned Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, the scholar who, as we know, dedicated a fundamental book to the Milanese composer. The ensemble chosen for Beuys's Wood is: baritone voice, small female choir, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion. The degree of transfiguration of the word achieved by Gaslini through highly original sonorities in his work explains the great emotion this composition has aroused since its first performance.
The absolute premiere of Silver Concert (1992), which took place at the Rossini Theater in Pesaro on Sunday, September 6, 1992, as part of the 10th World Saxophone Festival, offers us in this CD the singular "concerto for saxophone, baritone, and orchestra," where the dialectic between jazz tradition and classical-romantic tradition is approached according to Gaslini's compositional criteria and poetic style: through a sublimation of their respective connotations, in a peak encounter. The Elizabethan Suite, for traverso, voice, and piano, is a tribute, in the "Brittenesque" manner, to music by British Court composers of the Tudor era (16th century). The CD concludes with a very luminous piece for 16 string instruments: Adagio is beautiful, recorded live here and conducted by Gaslini himself, in Lanciano, on Sunday, August 22, 1999."

The recordings were made in different Italian theaters and historical venues over the last 20 years, and Marco Lincetto, who is also the author of one of these recordings, "Beuys's Wood," carried out a long and painstaking work of remixing and mastering to assemble all these different works into this album.