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Angelo Comisso: Stabat Mater

Read "Stabat Mater" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 11, 2012

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, ...

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Matteo Fraboni Quintet: This is My Music

Read "This is My Music" reviewed by Alex Franquelli

by Alex Franquelli
October 5, 2012

There is a fragile red line separating the concept of revolution from history. While the latter is strictly connected with time, the former is an exception to it: it is a nihilist diversion aimed at rebuilding our perspectives and ultimately our history. This is My Music is an intriguing challenge to the known canons of jazz. ...

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Ralph Towner e Javier Girotto all'Auditorium di Roma

by Mario Calvitti
April 12, 2010

Auditorium -Roma -25.01.2010C'era molta curiosità verso l'inedito duo Towner/Girotto presentato in un concerto esclusivo presso l'Auditorium romano per la rassegna Dialogo. La diversa provenienza artistica dei due musicisti (prettamente latino l'argentino Girotto, jazzista intriso di cultura classica europea Towner) poteva rappresentare sia uno stimolo che un ostacolo; fortunatamente ha prevalso di gran lunga il ...

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Keith Tippett: Viva La Black Live At Ruvo

Read "Viva La Black Live At Ruvo" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
July 12, 2007

Viva La Black Live At Ruvo, recorded in 2004, is a collaboration between the Italian jazz orchestra Canto Generàl and singers from vocal ensemble Faraualla, Keith Tippett, his wife Julie Tippetts and legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo. As well as playing piano, Tippett directs and conducts the orchestra; most of the compositions are also his. ...

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