Questionnaire - Part II

For electric guitars and voice

Words and Music by David Lang

Sergio Sorrentino, electric guitars (more than 40)

feat. Barbara Czepulonis, questioner (voice)

World Premiere Recording

The piece consists of a voice that asks questions to the guitar ensemble and the guitars that give their personal answers by articulating, performing and completing the given musical phrases. For this World Premiere Recording the Italian guitarist Sergio Sorrentino recorded all the guitars by myself, performing and overdubbing with different kind of solid body electric guitars and archtop guitars the answers of dozens of guitar students, professional and amateur guitarists.
The questioner has a woman voice, it's Sorrentino’s wife, Barbara Czepulonis.
David Lang says: "I was very happy to work with Sergio Sorrentino on this realization of the 'questionnaire.'  I knew Sergio would make a good version of this piece because a few years back he did a great job with my electric guitar duet 'warmth.'"
Sergio Sorrentino says:”We have recorded this track during a covid lockdown period and we have shared together great time dedicated to the art and music of the great composer David Lang, having the privilege to collaborating with him remotely.
As we proceeded with the registration, David Lang sent us his opinions, valuable advice, suggestions. This was very important to us. It was great to work again with David, after the previous wonderful experience of the 2018 “Warmth” recording on Mode Records.”

Cover by Barbara Czepulonis
Recorded in 2020 in Vercelli, Italy
Produced by Sergio Sorrentino
Mastering by Pierluigi Colangelo
Sergio plays Fender and Ibanez Guitars
World Premiere Recording

BIO - David Lang
David Lang is one of the greatest contemporary composers. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices. He was nominated for an Academy Awardand Golden Globe for "Simple Song #3" from the film Youth. 

BIO - Sergio Sorrentino
"A Superb Musician" (The Wire)
As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records) was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”. 
Philip Glass published on December 2020 Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released "Orphée's Bedroom" Single on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Single is earning a lot of success.

Questionnaire (Part II) David Lang & Sergio Sorrentino

String Lights by Sergio Sorrentino
performed by Suoni Possibili Electric Guitar Ensemble
conductor: Sergio Sorrentino

String Lights

String Lights | for electric guitar ensemble

In this Best Possible Taste episode, we meet Dave Lang from the from the Irish Craft Butchers Association.
Dave is a meat expert and butcher with over 40 years experience in meat preparation, butchery training & judging.
During the conversation with Sharon Noonan, lots of butcher-related topics are covered, including the World Butchers Challenge in Paris that takes place in March 2025.  The last time it took place was in 2018 in Belfast and the Irish team were the winners.

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29 January 2025 - David Lang

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Sergio Sorrentino - "A Superb Musician"(The Wire) As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream -
American Music for Electric
Guitar (Mode Records) was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”.
Philip Glass published on December 2020 Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released "Orphée's Bedroom" Single on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Single is earning a lot of success.
Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also
my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Italian Ensemble and he plays live and in studio with Elliott Sharp and John King. He has worked with important composers and musicians like Alvin Curran, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky and many others. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started
his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room
of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Spectrum in Berlin, Nuova
Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.).
https://www.sergiosorrentinoofficial.com

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