Commissione Contempoartensemble 2020
Prima esecuzione 30 giugno 2021, Chiostro dell’Accademia di Belle Arti, Firenze (Italia) Roberto Fabbriciani, flauto

Un ri-ascolto casuale di Nacht di Alban Berg, tratto dai 7 Frühe Lieder per orchestra su testo di Carl Hauptmann è l’ispirazione per questo mio lavoro per flauto in sol.
Il testo particolarmente evocativo di Carl Hauptmann, con le “buie nubi che incombono sopra la notte e le valli, le nebbie, gli scrosci dell’acqua dei torrenti”, svela un mondo di sublime e puro sogno. Le mie note si fondono in alcuni momenti con frammenti musicali tratti ed elaborati dal Lied, in un connubio che questo sogno non vuole rivelare. Foto di Matteo Pittini

Carla Magnan - Di Notte (2021)per flauto in sol

Altitudes for flute and harp (2012)

Live recording from the Atlante Sonoro 2022 Festival Rome (Italy)
Freon Ensemble
Giuseppe Pelura flute and Nazarena Recchia harp.

"Down along the fjord I am about to soar, among birds, forests and clouds when I remember not having wings ... or maybe finally yes."

"Giù lungo il fiordo mi sto per librare, tra uccelli, foreste e nubi quando ricordo di non avere le ali... o forse finalmente sì".

In memoriam di Elisa Del Simone (1964-2011)

Altitudes for flute and harp

Cosmofonie ovvero raccolta di cosmofollie brevi per pianoforte e non solo


Carla Magnan: Cosmofonie, Anni Luce (Esther Flukiger Pf)

Commission: Simc (International Society for Contemporary Music, Italian section)
3 settembre 2013, Varenna (Italy, Villa Monastero 
Alessandro Baticci, flute
Publisher: Sconfinarte

Carla Magnan: Percorsi (2008) for flute

Una Stanza per Judith for strings orchestra (2016)
Composer: Carla Magnan and Carla Rebora
Enrico Pagano, director; Orchestra da camera Ildebrando Pizzetti
Live: 7 April 2017, Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, Cernusco Lombardone, Lecco (Italy)

Grazie al pittore musicista ed amico Aldalberto Borioli per la bellissima immagine!

Una Stanza per Judith (2016)

Cd  "Nuova Musica per Orchestra: Archivi del XXI° Secolo vol. III"
Produzione del Centro Musica Contemporanea di Milano.
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, dir. Alessandro Calcagnile
(http://centromusicacontemporanea.com/collanadiscografica)
Publisher: Rai Trade

Carla Magnan: Viaggiando la luce (2003) for Youth Orchestra

Six images music for soprano, guitar, piano, violin and double bass.
Commission: Freon Ensemble for the XIII International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone (Italy). Text from Hymnen an die Nacht by Novalis  
First performance: November 17, 2004  Pordenone - Auditorium Concordia, Freon Ensemble :  Stefano Cardi, director and guitar; Keiko Morikawa, voce;  Orietta Caianello, piano;  Giulio Arrigo, violin; Carla Tutino, double bass.
Cd “ITALIAN NEWS”, Roma, Raitrade 2005
Publisher: Rai Trade

Carla Magnan/Carla Rebora:  Hymnen 1-2

Extract  from Opera L'Aurea d'amore (2009) for soprano, tenor and orchestra
Composer: Carla Magnan and Carla Rebora
Dramaturgy: Carla Magnan and Carla Rebora based on novel from "Il copista" by Marco Santagata.
A day in the old age of Francesco Petrarca, portrayed while composing a
"canzone". The soprano, in the dual role of Petrarca (the man and the poet) and Laura (the woman and the poetry), narrates and recalls the famous muse that nobody has ever known ...
Elena Romanazzi, soprano; Fabio Buonocore, tenor; Francesco Lanzillotta, director; Orchestra della Toscana
Live: 20 october 2012, Firenze, Teatro Verdi PLAYIT! Festival di musica italiana contemporanea, seconda edizione

Carla Magnan/Carla Rebora: extract from Opera 'L'aurea d'amore' for soprano, tenor and orchestra

Extract (scene III) from Fumodramma: Diabolikamente tua... (2002) for actors, piano, percussion, video and electronic 
Commission: City of Corsico (Milan, Italy) on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the comics  "Diabolik", from the idea of Carla Magnan and Lorena Portalupi
Composer: Carla Magnan 
Dramaturgy: Carla Magnan and Roberto Carusi based on third number of comics "The arrest of Diabolik" (1963).
Compagnia Itineraria (Actors)Lorena Portalupi (piano)Riccardo Balbinutti (percussion)Roberto Carusi (direction) Carla Magnan (conductor)
Live: 14 september 2006 Corsico (Mi), Teatro Verdi  
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade

Carla Magnan: extract (scene III) from Fumodramma "Diabolikamente tua..."

Extract (scene I) from Fumodramma: Diabolikamente tua... (2002) for actors, piano, percussion, video and electronic 
Commission: City of Corsico (Milan, Italy) on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the comics "Diabolik" from the idea of Carla Magnan and Lorena Portalupi
Composer: Carla Magnan 
Dramaturgy: Carla Magnan and Roberto Carusi based on third number of comics "The arrest of Diabolik" (1963).
Compagnia Itineraria (Actors)Lorena Portalupi (piano)Riccardo Balbinutti (percussion)Roberto Carusi (direction) Carla Magnan (conductor)
Live: 14 september 2006 Corsico (Mi), Teatro Verdi 
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade


Carla Magnan: extract (scene I) from Fumodramma "Diabolikamente tua..."

Extract from work of musical theater  'La rete dell'oro' for baritone and ensemble (flute, clarinet in b, violin, cello, piano and percussion).Composer: Carla Magnan 
Dramaturgy: Carla Magnan based on text from Ovidio and Shakespeare. 
Commission: Fiarì Ensemble
Fiarì Ensemble, Marilena Solavagione, conductor; Maurizio Leoni, baritone. 
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Live: 8 novembre 2005 -  Torino, CineTeatro Baretti 


Carla Magnan: extract from work of musical theater 'La rete dell'oro' for baritone and ensemble

Ferrara (Italy), 25 maggio 2014 – Festival MiXXer, una collaborazione tra il Teatro Comunale di Ferrara ed il Conservatorio “G. Frescobaldi” Ore 17 Salone di Palazzo Bonacossi.  Morena Mestieri, flauto
Publisher: Sconfinarte

Carla Magnan: Percorsi (2008) Festival MiXXer 2014, M. Mestieri (flauto)

Carla Magnan/Carla Rebora
Six images music for soprano, guitar, piano, violin and double bass.
Commission: Freon Ensemble for the XIII International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone (Italy). Text from Hymnen an die Nacht by Novalis 
First performance: November 17, 2004 Pordenone - Auditorium Concordia, Freon Ensemble : Stefano Cardi, director and guitar; Keiko Morikawa, voce; Orietta Caianello, piano; Giulio Arrigo, violin; Carla Tutino, double bass.
Cd “ITALIAN NEWS”, Roma, Raitrade 2005
Publisher: Rai Trade

Hymnen  6

Auditorium of the Conservatory "G. Verdi" in Como(Italy)- February 6, 2016
Riccardo Marelli, violoncello; Francesca Sgarbossa, marimba
Luca Richelli, live electronic. 
notes: First Prize at the 20th International Composition Competition ICOMS 2002 the city of Turin (http://www.icoms.it/archivioFR.php) 
Publisher: Rai Trade

Dagh

Dagh for cello, marimba and live electronics

Extract from Una Stanza per Judith for strings orchestra (2016)
Composer: Carla Magnan and Carla Rebora
Enrico Pagano, director; Orchestra da camera Ildebrando Pizzetti
Live: 7 April 2017, Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, Cernusco Lombardone, Lecco (Italy)

Extract: Una Stanza per Judith (2016)

An imaginary flight among the heights,  among the sounds of nature, observing everything from above.
With deep breaths they ascend or descend the air currents from the tops of mountains and immerse themselves in the colors of the tropical forest, enchanted by the singing of birds, where the lightness envelops them
The harmony of nature is a present and fluctuating "sound", rich of nuances and reflections that reach the waves of earthly time.
A mixture of colors and fragrances envelops the wakeful consciousness that seems to disperse itself in a myriad of dancing dots.
Gradually they abandon themselves to their breathing, losing more and more the physical perception, becoming now motionless as a stone or a crystal facing the sky.

Altitudes Extract (2015): for flute, clarinet B, harp, violin and cello

text from Vangelo secondo Luca (2, 29-32) precedes extract from Lumen ad revelationem (Gregorian chant). Live recording of the concert of 11 November 2017 in Chiesa Santa Maria di Castello (Genoa, Italy) for the Rassegna d’autunno "L’antico e il nuovo" of the Associazione PAN
Choir: the Libera Cantoria Pisani, director: Filippo Furlan
The bells at the end were absolutely fortuitous and gave a touch of magic to the execution.

Fili di Luce

extract from Nunc (2016) for mixed choir

Carla Magnan IL MAGNIFICO CANOCCHIALE
(2019 by STRADIVARIUS)
From CD by LowBb bassoon cluster:
Giorgio Mandolesi and Maurizio Barigione,  fagottino; 
Massimo Ferretti Incerti, bassoon; Alessio Pisani, contrabassoon.
Commission: Alessio Pisani

Il Magnifico Cannocchiale  for two fagottini, bassoon and contrabassoon

Legere Flores (2019) is a MusAnima Festival commission. Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marco Moresco.
The ancestral ability of the ancients to perceive the passage of time was the same as in animals and plants: the singing and flying of birds or the cyclical life of flowers and plants, in addition to turning into punctual seasonal calendars, indicated the time of day and night.
Even the flowers outlined from the point of view of the sound (by Georg Muffat for example) lead us to overcome the physical time, the one we can merely measure with the clock, to go towards the aporias of musical time: the watches of Jean Francaix or Linnaeus are clocks that follow a very imprecise cadence, the one of the opening of the flower corollas. Astronomical clocks can include sidereal time and lunar nodes with mechanisms that are as fascinating as they are complex. Esichio (Greek grammarian) describes the perception of the passage of time through the observation of shadows.
From these magnificent definitions and creations of man, "Legere flores" compares sound visions distant in space, built on impalpable presences, always about to disappear. A process that is a "legere = choose" and, at the same time, a "colligere = compose".
The music lets each luminous track be made up of rapid vibrations, capable of transmuting the image between volatile sensations and visionary passages, always waiting for something that has yet to happen, trying to reveal what is hidden in its essence, dilating its borders beyond any apparent horizon.

LEGERE FLORES for orchestra

L'eco che non tace (the echo that is not silent) is inspired by "Canto mattutino", a lyric by an anonymous author, in the wonderful translation by Salvatore Quasimodo, taken from his "Lirici Greci". With its masterly translation, Quasimodo has brought the ancient lyric to the modern language, suggesting new perspectives and musical suggestions.
The gilded birds with the sharp voice, free for the solitary wood on top of the pine branches that confusedly complain, lingering in their song or chatting loudly I translate them into my work with an imaginary flight among the tops of the hills, where they fly with their flight in the wind, among the sounds of nature. Rebecca Taio, flute. Live from Associazione Arte sul Serio
Albino(Bg, Italy), Chiesa San Bartolomeo Sabato 29 settembre 2018
Photo: Blue Bird - Fresco from Knossos, Late Minoan 1550 BC.

L'ECO CHE NON TACE, for solo flute (2018)

For wind trio (flute, oboe and Bb clarinet). Festival Risuonanze Commission - Meetings of new music 2018. First performance June 2, 2019 at Casa Cavazzini, Udine (Italy)As Seen Through a Telescope is inspired by the film (1900) of the same name by George Albert Smith, one of the first directors of the English cinema. The film, pioneering for the time, is particularly important in the history of cinema because it is the first, with Grandma's Reading Glass, to present a subjective shot, that is, a cinematographic shot in which "subjectively" shows what one of the characters is seeing .
And it is from this subjectivity that my work starts, collecting the suggestion given by the images of the film, observed and searched through a musical telescope, through which the features of the different "frames" of the film can be straight, more or less relevant, made fire or confused thanks to the use of diverging lenses or prisms. Listening to the piece you can recognize some elements isolated and extrapolated from the piece of the era "Tiger Rag" (The Original Dixieland Jazz Band) and a pattern, that is a model, which is re-proposed and used regularly within the new compositional space by following a precise schematic repetition. All the elements are reworked in their intrinsic ability to generate new gestures, drawing from them and reusing them as graphic motifs repeated on continuous levels, almost following the comic plot of the film.

Risuonanze 2019 - Concerto di Cantoni, Cossio, Bulfone - Casa Cavazzini, Udine 2.6.19

C. Magnan: As Seen Through a Telescope

E lentamente prende forma I - D'argento e di stagno(2020) for string quartet
Commissioned by Associazione Pasquale Anfossi for the concert of 28 September 2020, dedicated to the new Genoa San Giorgio bridge, inspired by the poem Litanie by Giorgio Caproni and the work of the musician painter Adalberto Borioli. Live recording of the concert in Palazzo Ducale, Sala del maggior Consiglio in Genoa (Italy). Andrea Cardinale and Federico Mazzucco, violins; Giuseppe Francese, viola; Giovanni Ricciardi, cello.

E lentamente prende forma I - D'argento e di stagno (2020) for string quartet

E lentamente prende forma II - Pulse and light (2020) for string quartet.
Commissioned by Associazione Pasquale Anfossi for the concert of 28 September 2020, dedicated to the new Genoa San Giorgio bridge, inspired by the poem Litanie by Giorgio Caproni and the work of the musician painter Adalberto Borioli. Live recording of the concert in Palazzo Ducale, Sala del maggior Consiglio in Genoa (Italy). Andrea Cardinale and Federico Mazzucco, violins; Giuseppe Francese, viola; Giovanni Ricciardi, cello.

E lentamente prende forma II - Pulse and light (2020) for string quartet

E lentamente prende forma III - Di pioggia, di ferro e aria (2020) for string quartet.
Commissioned by Associazione Pasquale Anfossi for the concert of 28 September 2020, dedicated to the new Genoa San Giorgio bridge, inspired by the poem Litanie by Giorgio Caproni and the work of the musician painter Adalberto Borioli. Live recording of the concert in Palazzo Ducale, Sala del maggior Consiglio in Genoa (Italy). Andrea Cardinale and Federico Mazzucco, violins; Giuseppe Francese, viola; Giovanni Ricciardi, cello.

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