Castiglioni - Inverno In-ver, etc | Stradivarius STR57003

Castiglioni - Inverno In-ver, etc

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Label: Stradivarius

Cat No: STR57003

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 9th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Ingrid Ade-Jesemann (soprano)
Regina Kabis (soprano)
Annette Noedinger (soprano)
Sakae Kiuchi (piano)
Peter Hoffmann (piano)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Ensemble des Instituts Fuer Neue Musik Freiburg
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart

Conductors

Gianluigi Gelmetti
Giorgio Bernasconi
Clytus Gottwald

Works

Castiglioni, Niccolo

Dickinson-Lieder for soprano
Hymn for twelve voices
Inverno In-Ver
Quodlibet for soprano solo
Quodlibet piccolo concerto

Artists

Ingrid Ade-Jesemann (soprano)
Regina Kabis (soprano)
Annette Noedinger (soprano)
Sakae Kiuchi (piano)
Peter Hoffmann (piano)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Ensemble des Instituts Fuer Neue Musik Freiburg
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart

Conductors

Gianluigi Gelmetti
Giorgio Bernasconi
Clytus Gottwald

About

Milanese composer and pianist Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-96) taught at Darmstadt during the years 1958 to 1965. He wrote at least two dozen significant works between 1955 and 1970. In 1966, he migrated to the United States, where he taught composition at the universities of Michigan (Ann Arbor),Washington (Seattle) and California (San Diego). Following his return to Italy in 1970, he resumed teaching composition at the conservatories of Trent, Como and Milan. Among his many students was Esa-Pekka Salonen.
 
The crystalline quality of many of his works is inspired by nature, in particular the last episode of Inverno in-ver [inverno is Italian for winter] for small orchestra - or the extraordinary pureness in which the outlines of a cold winter morning are cut. In Quodlibet (1965), the soprano sings some splendid words from Thomas More's Utopia. Again, in Dickinson-Lieder for soprano and piano (1977), Castiglioni shares with us his amazement at verses by Emily Dickinson; these are precisely those lines quoted by Calvino as examples of “a lightening of language by which the meaning is conveyed in a tissue of words that is so weightless that the meaning eventually takes on the same rarefied consistency”.

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