Stefano Scodanibbio: Reinventions

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with harmonics as a constant defining factor, the music's atmosphere, as the Quartetto Promoteo's first-rate performance shows, is forever haunting. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Release Date: 11th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: 4764850
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 66 minutes

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Stefano Scodanibbio, Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus I

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Quartetto Prometeo (string quartet)
Recorded: 2011-01-22
Recording Venue: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza

Stefano Scodanibbio, Francisco Tárrega: Quattro Pezzi Spagnoli

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Quartetto Prometeo (string quartet)
Recorded: 2011-01-22
Recording Venue: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza

Lágrima

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El Testament d’Amelia

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Andante

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Studio

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Stefano Scodanibbio, Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus V

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Quartetto Prometeo (string quartet)
Recorded: 2011-01-22
Recording Venue: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza

Stefano Scodanibbio, José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval: Canzoniere messicano

Work length25:10

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Quartetto Prometeo (string quartet)
Recorded: 2011-01-22
Recording Venue: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza

Cuando sale la luna

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Canción Mixteca

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Sandunga

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Bésame mucho

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Canzone popolare: La llorona

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Stefano Scodanibbio, Johann Sebastian Bach: Contrapunctus IV

Work length9:59

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Quartetto Prometeo (string quartet)
Recorded: 2011-01-22
Recording Venue: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza

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The ‘Re-inventions’ heard on this captivating recording comprise the last dream project of the Italian bassist/composer Stefano Scodanibbio (1956-2012).

Performed by Quartetto Prometeo, they are new arrangements for string quartet of three Contrapunctus (I, IV and V) from Bach’s The Art of Fugue, plus a group of popular Mexican songs and four Spanish guitar pieces by Tarrega, Llobet, Aguado and Sor, brought into a compelling unity.

“What is intriguing about these arrangements is that they are indeed ‘Re-inventions’ as Stefano manages to impinge his own personal style of writing, in harmonics, so that they are unmistakably the work of his hand” (Irvine Arditti in the liner notes). Scodanibbio’s writing for strings was informed by his extraordinary prowess as a player, a virtuoso bassist, interpreter, improviser and a composer whose own work was beyond the “traditional” avant- garde. Until his untimely death, Scodanibbio was one of the truly great double bassists creating new colours and techniques in dozens of works written for him by composers such as Nono, Scelsi, Bussotti, Donatoni, Ferneyhough, Globokar, Sciarrino and Xenakis, but his own music - he composed more than 50 pieces, principally for strings - lives on. Following his transcription for double bass of Berio’s solo cello Sequenza XIVb in 2004, he began to make versions of other composers’ music, ranging from Monteverdi to Terry Riley and all the music here.

Reviews

August 2013

with harmonics as a constant defining factor, the music's atmosphere, as the Quartetto Promoteo's first-rate performance shows, is forever haunting.

20th June 2013

This is the first ECM appearance for Italy’s Quartetto Prometeo, and they make a very fine job of these pieces indeed...It’s contemporary and ancient at the same time, connecting to something which appeals to the memory and the imagination

31st March 2013

He focuses on sound itself, searching for the subtlest but widest colour ranges through use of harmonics and relative positionings of bow on string. Quartetto Prometeo’s playing is refined and poised.

14th April 2013

What comes across is the composer's intense love for his material, which alternates between haunting Mexican folk songs (including the bewitching Bésame mucho), pieces originally for guitar, and dislocations of three of Bach's Art of Fugue. Totally original sounds, wonderfully realised by Quartetto Prometeo.

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