Dimensioni

One of the most 'hidden' and sought after releases of all times is finally getting a due repress: a work of epic proportions, Ennio Morricone's and Bruno Nicolai's "Dimensioni Sonore" has been eluding collectors and affectionate listeners for about 50 years.

Many of the members from the Rock Progressive Italiano band Sezione Frenante played in the band known as Nuove Dimensioni which was founded in 1974 and disbanded in 1978. The new incarnation formed in 2006, and under the name of Sezione Frenante, have released 2 albums; their debut album in 2014, which consists of both old and new compositions, and in May of 2019, they have released their 2nd album named after their old band name Nuove Dimensioni.
Nuove Dimensioni (a.k.a. New Dimensions) is an intriguing progressive work, with colourful arrangements, that thematically investigates the origins of the universe, the depths of space, the nature of time and the fate of black holes.

Most followers of electro-acoustic music recognize the contributions both Bruno Maderna and Luciano Berio have made to the field, mainly due to their collaborative work Ritratto di Citta, which established the Studio de Fonologia in 1955. Fewer, however, are familiar with their individual projects from the late '50s and early '60s that clearly set them apart from their counterparts in Cologne. Berio and Maderna were both obsessed by the human voice as a basis and endpoint in electro-acoustic music…

In the course of a conference held at Darmstadt in 1957, Maderna spoke of his compositional experiences in the field of electronic music in the following terms: "My Introduction to electronic music totally upset my relationship with musical materials. (…) Whereas instrumental composition is preceded In most cases Py a linear development of thought (…), the fact that in electronic music one can try out directly various possible sound structures, and manipulate these ad infinitum to obtain new musical Images, and lastly, the fact that the composer can store away a vast amount of unfinished material, puts the composer in a completely novel position.
Bruno Maderna
All the pieces In this CD were restored and digitally remastered In the winter of 1993 in Milan by AGON - acustica informatica musica, using the original tapes preserved in the archives of the Studio di Fonologia of the RAI in Milan.

from the attached booklet

The five orchestral works in this comprehensive anthology have a common nucleus pointing to the core interests which Bruno Maderna pursued from 1954 to 1966: experiments with a post-serial harmonic vocabulary, and a search for dramatic structures. This CD includes Composition in Three Tempi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Aria, Dimension III and Stele per Diotima.