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Internationally renowned flutist Carol Winsenc joins forces with the Escher String Quartet, Tanya Dusevic Witek also on flute, and pianists Stephen Gosling and Emile Naoumoff to present this dynamic recording of the compositions of Yuko Uébayashi. The opening piece, Misericordia pour flûte et quatuor à cordes was composed for Carol Wincenc. Hailed "Queen of the Flute" (New York Magazine) at the outset of her, now, brilliant 48 year career, flutist Carol Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the (sole) Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the National Flute Association, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from Manhattan School of Music and the Brevard Music Center. During the past two seasons she performed, recorded and gave masterclasses as an exclusive Burkart Flutes Artist in Beijing, Shenyang, Seoul, Warsaw, Prague, Venice, Nice, and Thessoloniki.

Internationally renowned flutist Carol Winsenc joins forces with the Escher String Quartet, Tanya Dusevic Witek also on flute, and pianists Stephen Gosling and Emile Naoumoff to present this dynamic recording of the compositions of Yuko Uébayashi. The opening piece, Misericordia pour flûte et quatuor à cordes was composed for Carol Wincenc. Hailed "Queen of the Flute" (New York Magazine) at the outset of her, now, brilliant 48 year career, flutist Carol Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the (sole) Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the National Flute Association, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from Manhattan School of Music and the Brevard Music Center.

Intossicati come siamo da luoghi comuni buonisti, da surrogati e caricature di sentimenti, non sappiamo più cosa sia veramente la misericordia. Troppo spesso la confondiamo con un generico sentimento di pietà, perdono o accoglienza in balìa dei nostri umori. Ma la misericordia, come ben dimostra questo libro in cui c'è molta Parola di Dio e tanta umanità, è ben altra cosa. È un atto, un'opera, una sapienza, una cura, il frutto di una relazione con l'altro. Non sorge dall'uomo ma dalla relazione con Dio, è un'opera di Dio nell'uomo. Soffermandosi sulle singole opere di misericordia spirituale, inseparabili da quelle corporali, don Fabio ci aiuta a capire come non si può vivere senza misericordia, perché la felicità più profonda, nella vita, è prendersi cura di qualcuno. Solo l'amore vero dà la felicità vera..