Chocolate Osvaldo Gross

Osvaldo Golijov's score for Frances Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth demonstrates the composer's ability to transfer his prodigious talent and skill in orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral music, and opera to the medium of film, creating a score that's richly textured and hauntingly atmospheric. The music is recognizably Golijov's, with its blend or juxtaposition or layering of central European and Argentinean folk musics and a full array of contemporary compositional techniques, but it's also recognizably descriptive cinematic music.

Centravanti di buone speranze - "ricordo di aver fatto più di trenta goal in campionato" -, fino a che la carriera calcistica non gli viene stroncata da un incidente, Osvaldo Soriano diviene innanzi tutto cronista sportivo e solo in seguito, con "Triste, solitario y final", del 1973, uno dei romanzieri più amati e acclamati dell'America latina. Ma questa sua passione per lo sport, e per il fútbol in particolare, non l'ha mai lasciato. Scrive con la stessa passione e lo stesso amore di grandi campioni - uno tra tutti Diego Armando Maradona - e di oscuri portieri, di arbitri improbabili, di allenatori in pensione. Storie di calcio, di memoria, di personaggi indimenticabili, come il figlio di Butch Cassidy o il míster Peregrino Fernández, ma "imperfetti" (come diceva lui stesso), che giocano partite senza fine, contro un avversario o contro la vita.

Roberto Fabbriciani presents Osvaldo Coluccino’s Interni, a cycle of six solo flute pieces for various versions of the instrument. From the beginning to the end of the work, every centimetre of the score (with a wealth of mathematically pinned details), each individual sound, although of a single instrument, is engaged to conduct, weakly, diversification, alterity, undecidability, multiplicity, difference … This is a journey to the most inner self of a composer through the human breath that aspires to be the alter ego of the instrument and vice versa. Original interpreter and versatile artist, Roberto Fabbriciani has innovated flute technique, multiplying through personal research the instrument’s sonorous possibilities.

Some lessons from the famous tango dancers Mora Godoy and Osvaldo Zotto for beginners.

What makes a piece of music difficult? This album introduces a pair of riveting, technically ambitious, historically important, and never-before-recorded polyphonic masses of the fifteenth century, performed by an ensemble that has developed a new approach designed to honor the music’s variety and unflagging intensity. Both works stand out for their notational complexity.