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Etude.75 is a short movement for solo piano that can either be played on its own, or as movement 6 of "Seven Pines", a large chamber work written for the Radius Ensemble. The performer on this recording is Sarah Bob.

Etude.75

Manuel De Sica: A life in music
Brilliant Classic Cat. No. 94905

Floraleda Sacchi (Harp)
Flavio Emilio Scogna (director)
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (Orchestra)

other soloist on the recording: Maristella Patuzzi (violin), Anna Serova (viola), Michelangelo Carbonara (piano)

Kojiki for harp and strings
I. Prelude 4'38
II. Epitaph 7'08
III. Dance 2'25

No division between 'absolute' and 'applied' music -- that's the way it has always been for Manuel de Sica. Here we have the chance to explore the oeuvre of this contemporary Italian composer, best known for his contributions to the world of film; Il giardino dei Finzi Contini, the last track on the release, won an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.

Much of De Sica's work centres around the themes of pain and suffering, where music is invested with the power to help alleviate the indifference that surrounds so much human grief - as in pieces such as Kojiki. The titles translates "News form ancient times". This is a short symphonic poem inspired by the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941. The story told regards the childhood, adolescence and death of a kamikaze pilot, of the kind who might have taken part in the bombing. The final dance describes his assent to the empyrean world of his ancestors.

Performing this music is the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, one of Italy's most important symphony orchestras and which has appeared under conductors of the calibre of Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur -- to name but a few. The ensemble provides the background to a wonderfully lively instrumental fantasy in which the harp, violin, viola and piano -- here astutely performed Floraleda Sacchi, Maristella Patuzzi, Anna Serova and Michelangelo Carbonara respectively -- becomes the soloists in a fascinating, wide-reaching musical fabric. Flavio Emilio Scogna conducts.



Recorded 27 & 28 May 2013, Centro di Produzione Musicale della Filarmonica Toscanini, Parma.

Manuel De Sica: PRELUDE from Kojiki, for Harp and Strings

Eastman Harmonie conducted by Mark Scatterday
Kodak Hall, Rochester, NY
April 15 2022.

Commissioned by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music.

Giving Ground (2022) for wind octet

Excerpt of live performance by Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Reverberations - excerpt

Sätze - Wörter - Zeichen (2022)-E-Mex Ensemble- #Tonedmelisma MusikFestival

The University of Miami's Frost School of Music wind ensemble performances "Passages", with. music by Will Healy and sung lyrics by spiritchild. This performance features Sydney Altbacker, soprano, Chad Nelson and Dizzy Senze, emcees, and Jose Ignacio, tenor saxophone soloist. All emcee lyrics are original and written by the emcees. This premiere performance was conducted by Robert Carnochan on 2/19/23 at the CBDNA Conference, Athens, GA.

Passages - Healy / spiritchild (Live at CBDNA)

Materia Prima was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and was premiered on March 16, 2023 by Daniela Candillari and the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Materia Prima draws inspiration from the mythological motif of the cosmic ocean. This motif, which can be found in the creation stories of a strikingly wide variety of cultures and religions, describes a cosmic ocean of primordial, often chaotic waters from which the universe was created. The title, Materia Prima (Latin for prime, or original matter) refers to the substance viewed as the material cause of the universe.

There are two musical elements that form my piece, sustained sounds and brief impulses. The impulses act as drops of water in a still, vast sea, creating waves of activity that disrupt the stability of the sustained material. The harmonic structure of the piece is built upon a similar opposition, one between the harmonic series of a low B-flat and the open strings of the string instruments, particularly the open A – the note from which the entire piece emerges. The piece unfolds through gradual processes of transformation as it attempts to reconcile these opposing materials. At its core, Materia Prima strives to find serene spaces in a turbulent and chaotic world.

Materia Prima (2023) for orchestra

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Cornell University Barnes Hall, March 16, 2016

Games of Belief (2015) for piano

Violin: Yasutaka Hemmi
Harp: Takayo Matsumura

live recording

For Harp And Violin (2009)

Flute: Jun-ichiro taku
Cello:Tai Took
Piano:Shizuka Kuretani

Excerpt from the CD "Four Seasons" Below
https://www.fontec.co.jp/blog/2019/03/new2019320.html

Reverberations - excerpt

Martha Callison Horst