This is the first of a project of solo instruments pieces called colors and inspired by the color of the sound of each instrument. Every piece is written in one position/chord/multiphonic and all that you can listen (chords, melodies, rythms) is created by partials of a multiphonic that have a F quarter tone as fundamental. Blu Cobalto is a commission of the flutist Roberto Fabbriciani that premiered the piece in 4th June 2011 giving to the work his magic coloristic and virtuose art of playng. During all the work he doesn't move his hand by the position and in a live performance you can watch a performer with stop hands on the flute. Blu Cobalto requires an "active" role of the player that has all the sounds in the multiphonic but must "search" and listen every note or chord in which wants to put the focus on. All partials are not tempered and create a natural tuning sound.

C. Valentini - Blu Cobalto for solo flute - Roberto Fabbriciani, flute

Il brano descrive l'atmosfera creata dalle prime luci che precedono l'alba. 
The piece describes the atmosphere of the first light when the dawn is breaking.

C. Valentini - Rarefazioni di luce for string orchestra

The premiere recording, 21st april 2011
Illinois State University Orchestra, Maurizio Colasanti

"Fluttuazioni Quantistiche" (Quantum Fluctuations) is a piece inspired by quantum's micro-world, basis of our physical world. I imagined some kind of a soundtrack, sounds intrinsic to the matter, which has laws different from the real world. In it's first part there is a rarefaction of time, this is an introduction where you can not see neither the time nor the speed. In reality everything is constantly in "4/4" and "100 to a quarter". There is also a different dimension of space given by notes that appear and disappear, like particles; these are played by orchestral instruments that come from far apart, together with large resonances produced by vibraphone and harp with unusual tunings. The vibraphone, during the whole piece, produces also very large clusters with wooden bands placed over the keys.Pursuing, small flows of energy comes and a great little episode: particles that, as children, play and have fun.

After constant flows of energy arrive, produced by bands that sound starting from ppp till ff.

These are orchestral sections that intersect each other.At the end of this episode are fluctuations themselves, particles floating in space musically rendered by triplets of the harp and "glissandos" in the muted strings.

This element gives off very strong energy that puts in motion a heavy machinery of the most serious and strong instruments which after settles into a "mobile sound" (a tenuto and unstable sound due to the micro-tonality) that leads to a "tutti" of the orchestra through an episode of brass-percussion. Brasses play, each with a different rhythm to simulate chaos, hitting the mouthpiece with the palm of the hand.

The ordered chaos of particles expresses a great uncontrollable force due to strings that play legato with pure wood and a whirling piece of woods like a bird cage gone wild which give off particles that ends with strong percussion hit, after which there is .. . silence for eight beats.

Finally the piece becomes more rarefied to return to the entropy of the initial state and ends with a resonance of a high note from the vibraphone that is lost in space.

C. Valentini - Fluttuazioni Quantistiche for large orchestra - cond. M. Colasanti

Cesare Valentini "Corde e attrazioni" for violin, viola, cello and piano Members of Scarlatti Orchestra Toscana Classica Quartet: Live of the premiere, Florence 15 sept 2008

C. Valentini - Corde e attrazioni for piano quartet

Brano originale liberamente ispirato alla musica da film di Nino Rota. 
An original piece inspired by soundtrack music of Nino Rota and his music for Fellini movies played by C. Valentini on a digital piano

C. Valentini - La dolce vita, omaggio a Nino Rota

A different image of Venice and winds. The premiere recording in Venice Palazzo Cà Sagredo 22.09.2008.
Audi Mozart Quintet - I. Zahirovic,flauto, T. Balla, oboe, M. Pavlovic, clarinetto, A. Cesari, corno, S. Almanza, fagotto
Photo by Giusi Bartolini

C. Valentini - Un'immagine dei venti for wind quintet

Cesare Valentini was born in Palermo, Sicily and begin to study piano at the age of 10 and composition at the age of 14. From the age of 20 Valentini resided in Florence where also studied Law at the University. He got the Master's Degree in Music Composition with "Summa cum Laude" in Milan Conservatory G. Verdi with M° Mario Garuti. The first public concerts of his music, when he was 26, were in little festivals and concerts in Florence. His style came from neoclassicism, step by step influenced by avant-garde music but not serial. Like other schools in the world he works with the impression of sounds, harmonics, colored atonality. His music has been performed in Italy, Europe and South America by important ensembles, orchestras and artists such as Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Osem National orchestra of Mexico, Ricercare Strumentale Italiano, members of ORT, J Futura Orchestra, Ensemble Italiano, Fonè String Quartet, I Fiati Italiani, the flutist Roberto Fabbriciani, the singers Susanna Rigacci, Patrizia Morandini, Maria Costanza Nocentini, Monica Benvenuti and many others. He was also director of many concert seasons in Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Toscana Classica in Orsanmichele, Aspetti del Sacro etc.. He was also the composer in residence of the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina and collaborates with many institutions especially for contemporary music. He is a playwrite too and in 1997 won a national literature prize. Actually he is working on new sounds for acoustic instruments in XXI century music.

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