Luigi Nono: A Pierre. Dell'azzurro silenzio, inquietum (1985)

Dedicated to Pierre Boulez for his 60th birthday (on 26th March 1985), the composition "A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum" received its first performance on 31st March 1985 in Baden-Baden by Roberto Fabbriciani and Ciro Scarponi; the live electronics part was prepared by the Experimental Studio in Freiburg in Breisgau.
The two musicians’ congenial concert performances, with the richness of harmonics of the contrabass flute and contrabass clarinet, determined the specific timbral aura of the work: it is difficult to distinguish which sounds are played by acoustic instruments and which are generated live in the electronics part.
The composer was seeking precisely that perfect union between two types of sonority, because then could he create an uninterrupted tissue, continuously fluctuating, characterized by an extremely subtle but insistent inner mobility.
Mobility and spatiality are the two principal characteristics of the work.
Nono used the indication “a piú cori” on purpose in this work written for just two instruments, adopting the nomenclature of Venetian polychoral music of the Gabrielis - an indication that he used often, by the way: e.g. he called his seven instrumental groups “choirs” in "2° No hay caminos, hay que caminar… … Andrej Tarkowskij".
(liner notes by Paolo Petazzi, Luigi Nono e il suono
elettronico. 10° Festival di Milano Musica,
Teatro Studio, 9 October 2000)
(Bill Smith)

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Beautiful.

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quite good...