In altro mare - loosely based on a poem by K. Kavafis

The City [K. Kavafis]

You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.

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"In altro mare" for flute and piano (2020)

live at Musis & Stadstheater, Arhnem, NL

Orkest de Ereprijs and Phion Orkest 
Sterre Konijn sopran
Gregory Charette conducting

RKST21 Commission for Andriessen Festival 2022

Broken Neon Arabesque

Riccardo Perugini - "Courante alternatif"

Sequoia - piano and recording
Andrea Fumelli - mix and master
Riccardo Perugini - composer

The title and concept behind this piece originated from a play on words between the ancient French dance, the "courante," and the French term for alternating electric current namely "courant alternatif." The result of this bizarre juxtaposition led me to merge the rhythmic and textural elements typical of Renaissance dance with the concept of a continuous alternation between left and right hand, almost as if it were a sine wave that is involuntarely twitching with electricity.

Courante alternatif - (for solo piano)

22.01.2025 - HMT Leipzig

Ronja Sophie Putz
Lilly Schmitt 

Foto: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac/Georg Baselitz 2016/Jochen
Littkemann/MKM

Mehr oder weniger eine Georg Baselitz Hommage

MDR-Sinfonieorchester
Michael Wendeberg - conductor

recorded live in MDR-Studio in Leipzig, on 18/06/2025

Quasi un notturno, for orchestra (2025)

Premiered on the 18th of June 2025 by the MDR Sinfonieorchester and conducted by Michael Wendeberg.

Stryphos, for MDR Sinfonieorchester (2024-25)

Conductor: Michael Wendeberg
Orchestra: MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Recorded on 18.06.2025

Quasi un notturno, for orchestra (2025)

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