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Colonna sonora del film omonimo di Stefano Landini. 'Registrare la musica per 7/8 è stata per me una sfida. La sfida dei tempi di realizzazione (molto stretti durante la rovente estate del 2006 con i suoi mille concerti e viaggi) ma soprattutto la sfida del linguaggio. 7/8 è una storia ambientata nel fascismo della seconda guerra quando il jazz muoveva in Italia i primi passi tra i suoni di Ellington nascosti nei titoli dei brani criptati dal regime e le canzonette in voga. La sfida è stata quella di avere registrato una colonna sonora non ambientata in quegli anni ma nel decennio successivo ed ispirata al migliore Miles Davis. Spero abbia funzionato e spero di non avere stravolto lo spirito ed il senso storico del film.

Francesco Mancini’s output includes 29 operas, oratorios, more than 200 secular cantatas, and instrumental music, often written for flute, cello, and continuo. Here, the sonatas are interpreted by oboe and organ; they are part of a series of 12 sonatas originally dedicated to the English Consul of Naples, John Fleetwood.

Based in Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain is one of the leading performance organizations devoted to new music, and is closely associated with composer/conductor Pierre Boulez, a leader of the European avant-garde establishment. Boulez developed the idea of the Ensemble during the planning stages for IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique).

The first monographic recording entirely dedicated to Francesco Rasi is released for the 400th anniversary of his death (30 November 1621). The first interpreter of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, an astonishing tenor and poet with a life studded with triumphs, constant travels, debts and murders, this native of Arezzo was fought over by all the courts of Italy and Europe. The pieces, on texts by Petrarch, Guarini, Chiabrera and Rasi himself – including ten world premieres – are taken from the Vaghezze di Musica (1608) and the Madrigali (1610). Tenor soloist Riccardo Pisani explores their extraordinary poetic and musical power, in a kaleidoscope of affects divided into seven ‘strings of the lyre’. He is accompanied by the Ensemble Arte Musica, directed by harpsichordist Francesco Cera. The two artists have been collaborating for years on rediscovering the Italian vocal repertory of the seventeenth century, as witnessed by the recent success of their set of Frescobaldi CDs, released on Arcana.