Lello Patruno

Vito Liturri Trio: Desires and Fears

by Dan McClenaghan
December 27, 2022

Every city one walks through is a different dream. Every piece of music that vibrates across time and space is also a dream--an assertion framed to perfection by the Vito Liturri Trio's Desires And Fears. Italian pianist Liturri takes his inspiration from his countryman Italo Calvino's fantastical 1972 novel, Invisible Cities (Giudio Einaudi), a Nebula Award-nominated book that features Marco Polo's descriptions--to Emperor Kublai Khan--of 55 cities he (Polo) has experienced. The tales/prose poems told by Polo are ...