Orazio Sciortino - Chamber Music for Piano & Strings | Claves CD1724

Orazio Sciortino - Chamber Music for Piano & Strings

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Label: Claves

Cat No: CD1724

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 13th October 2017

Contents

Works

Sciortino, Orazio

Diario di un poeta for cello and piano
Piano Quartet
Piano Quintet
Piano Trio

Artists

Swiss Music Ensemble ‘New Wave’
Ambra Piano Trio

Works

Sciortino, Orazio

Diario di un poeta for cello and piano
Piano Quartet
Piano Quintet
Piano Trio

Artists

Swiss Music Ensemble ‘New Wave’
Ambra Piano Trio

About

‘The works presented in this recording were composed between 2012 and 2013, and propose a combination of piano and strings, from cello duo to trio, quartet and quintet. Although not thought out as a cycle, these works were created simultaneously, at a time when I needed to reinforce my language while maintaining a rigorous but distant approach of a sort of aesthetic apriori declaration, musical conditioning or model, in an attempt to seek a voice, a stylistic identity of my own. The presence of the piano enabled me to override a kind of timidity that I had felt up until then towards pianistic writing. Commissioned by ensembles of excellent musicians, who then became great friends, those pieces were for me a kind of ideal research ground, free from constraint or particular demands from the commissioner. Added to that, I had at my disposal interpreters of the highest level, of whom I could ask anything, with as much time as necessary to develop ideas, to alter them or even possibly discard them. It is no coincidence in fact that, with the exception of the cello and piano pieces, these pieces have a generic title that simply refers to an ensemble of instruments. Research was therefore concentrated on sound, on the style of writing that interested me, not necessarily new but that could broaden my vocabulary of sound. It was also a work of several years, which consolidated the way I envisaged my activity as musician, the relationship between musician and audience, the principle that conversing with the story does not mean being back-ward looking, and that refuting tradition does not mean being innovative.’
– Orazio Sciortino

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