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Giulia Barba: The Angry St.Bernard
by Eyal Hareuveni
Italian reed player Giulia Barba uses her debut album to weave highly personal compositions that reflect her interests in visual arts, the European school of jazz, contemporary and world music and most importantly, her great passion for genre-defying music. The Bologna born musician decided to pursue musical studies after she majored in philosophy in the university of Bologna university. Only than she began studying music, first in Italy, than in Amsterdam and completing these studies in Stavanger, Norway, under the ...
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by Mark Corroto
Listening to The Angry St. Bernard by musician and composer Giulia Barba, it is surprising to learn that it is her debut recording. A baritone saxophonist (maybe the Italian equivalent to Claire Daly, she displays a jazz veteran's maturity in both her compositions and playing. The eight tracks recorded here deliver a diverse sound and, more importantly, the promise of multi-directional growth. Doubling on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Barba arranges the music to divert the listener's attention ...
read moreAngelo Comisso: Stabat Mater
by Eyal Hareuveni
Italian composer/pianist Angelo Comisso took on a challenging task when he decided to write contemporary music to one of the most powerful medieval hymns, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, that meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion, attributed to Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. This hymn has been set to music by many composers, among them Joseph Haydn, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi and Arvo Pärt. But Comisso arrangement of this sorrowful hymn does not attempt ...
read moreClaudio Fasoli Emerald Quartet: Venice Inside
by Ian Patterson
On Venice Inside, saxophonist Claudio Fasoli pays homage to the city of his birth. The song titles reveal that Fasoli's inspiration comes from the storied past, the stunning architecture and the unique atmosphere of the churches, plazas, cobbled streets, bridges, waterways and islands which make up the soul of this one-of-a-kind city.
In times past, when Venice was an independent republic, it was known as La Serenissima (the most serene)--in spite of centuries of conflict and war. Nevertheless, the biggest ...
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