MUSICAL PORTRAITS - Trio Caroli

MUSICAL PORTRAITS ( CVLD296 )

Author : AAVV
Performer : Trio Caroli: Enzo Caroli (flute), Livio Caroli (oboe), Anna Martignon (piano)

Tracklist

Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014)
01. Perpetual Speed ​​Motion (2:11)

Domenico Giannetta (1974)
02. Modus for flute, oboe and piano (7:10)

Joseph Ratti (1965)
03. The Dark Day, a little symphonic poem for flute, oboe and piano, op.106 (5:57)

Paul Pessina (1969)
Twelve Miniatures for Flute, Oboe and Piano (23:05)
04. I (1:22)
05. II (1:42)
06. III (1:30)
07. IV (2:23)
08. V (1:18)
09.VI (1:33)
10. VII (1:53)
11. VIII (2:17)
12. IX (1:56)
13. X (2:10)
14. XI (1:43)
15. XII (3:18)

Daniele Zanettovich (1950)
Six Andalusian Songs for Flute, Oboe and Piano (11:44)
16. Malagueña (2:42)
17. Fandaguillo (2:21)
18. Villancico (1:15)
19. Sevillana (1:49)
20. Petenera (1:42)
21. Tanguillo (1:55)

Original 24bit / 88.2kHz recording made at Area Magister Studios, Preganziol, Italy, in April 2008.
Anna Martignon plays a Steinway & Sons D274 Concert Grand piano, tuned and prepared by Silvano Zanta.

Production

• Production: Velut Luna
• Executive Producer: Marco Lincetto
• Recording, Mixing and Mastering: Marco Lincetto
• Music Producer and Editing Engineer: Mattia Zanatta
• Cover: Marco Lincetto
• Design and layout: L'Image

Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014)
Pepetuo Speedy Motorcycle
"With a vaguely Paganinian assonance it represents the continuous flow of agile lines that cross the score, counterpointed by nervous bursts and here and there by a resonant chorale"
Giorgio Gaslini (2006)

Domenico Giannetta (1974)
Modus (2008)
"The piece, in tripartite form (Con moto – Poco Andante – Tempo I), is characterized by a sadly elegiac tone with themes based on fragments of the octatonic scale, a dense contrapuntal network, and temporal relationships between the duration values ​​that bring to mind the modus (relationship between longa and brevis) of fourteenth-century musical theory. Modus is dedicated to the Trio Caroli."
Domenico Giannetta (2017)

Joseph Ratti (1965)
The Dark Day (2006)
"The Dark Day is a work written in 2006 on commission from the Caroli brothers to whom it is dedicated. It is a composition that, five years after the “black day”, the attack on the Twin Towers in New York in September 2011, proposes a reinterpretation of those tragic events. A black and white postcard that tones down the drama of those moments, leaving room for the melancholy and current desolation of that place.

The flute and the oboe, symbolic presences of the two towers, intertwine and embrace each other. Theirs is a single song that rises little by little towards the sky. The two instruments chase each other, transforming a melancholic theme into a very tight and violent canon, letting the desperate screams, symbol of that dramatic day, filter through.

The finale is tinged with a subtle nostalgia. The return of the main theme in a 'solemn' fff, leads us to the awareness of the indestructibility of two fundamental words for man: 'freedom and future'."
Joseph Ratti (2017)

Paul Pessina (1969)
12 Miniatures Op.12 (1996)
"The 12 miniatures Op.12, composed in 1996, follow a very cohesive tonal and structural scheme. Each of the 12 pieces gravitates around one of the 12 sounds of the chromatic scale according to this precise tonal plan:

1. G minor
2. C# minor
3. C major
4. F# minor
5. F major
6. B minor/major
7. Bb major
8. E minor
9. Eb major
10. The minor
11. Major Lab
12. D minor

From a technical-poetic point of view, the use of a well-defined tonal path and the balanced distribution of dance rhythms create a musical kaleidoscope. Each miniature represents a unique moment that completes the final picture."
Paul Pessina (2017)

Daniele Zanettovich (1950)
Six Andalusian Songs (2007)
"The Six Andalusian Songs were born as a small suite for guitar, very simple both technically and structurally. At a later stage, versions were developed for marimba, flute, viola and harp, and finally for flute, oboe and piano.

Each song maintains the dance character from which it is inspired, even in the brief interpolations - in the initial Malagueña and the final Tanguillo - which act as small cadences ad libitum."
Daniele Zanettovich (2017)

Notes
This collection includes works that range from classical inspirations to reinterpretations of historical events, using a musical language that varies from counterpoint to dance, passing through melodic and structural reflections. Each composition is characterized by the attention to technical and poetic details, offering a varied and suggestive musical panorama.