Sotterraneo

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Montalti’s music requires a high degree of musicianship to convey it accurately. Even without a copy of the score, I sensed that the Divertimento Ensemble, conducted by Sandro Gorli, is very... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

Release Date: 7th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: STR37134
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 50 minutes

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Montalti: Sotterraneo

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Vittorio Montalti (electronics)
Divertimento Ensemble
Sandro Gorli

Montalti: Les toits de Paris

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Montalti: Bestiaire remix

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Ljuba Bergamelli (soprano)

Montalti: Nu descendant un escalier

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Montalti: Tentative d'épuisement

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Sandro Gorli

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The title of the fifth of the pieces by Vittorio Montalti (Rome 1984) featured on this release refers, as we will see, to a book by Georges Perec; it is dated 2013 and is therefore from the same year as his first theatrical work, performed at the Biennale Musica di Venezia, L’arte e la maniera di af-frontare il proprio capo per chiedergli un aumento. The long title corresponds literally to the French title of a book by Perec from 1968, which was published posthumously. The titles of the four instrumental works recorded on this album all contain an extramusical reference, whose connotations are nevertheless always expressed in abstract terms, not descriptive. At the centre of the release we find a piece for solo voice, Bestiaire Remix from 2014, which is a re-elaboration of two previous works, Bestiaire and Bestiaire II in which some texts from a collection of poems by Apollinaire, illustrated by Raoul Dufy (1910), have been fragmented by “breaking up the words and syllables” (one of the procedures typical of Montalti’s anti-naturalist research on vocality). “In Bestiaire Remix – the composer comments – I cut out some passages from the pre-existing texts and reassembled them almost like a movie director might do. My idea is to be able to rebuild a unity starting from the fragment and linking elements that are totally heterogeneous”

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September/October 2020

Montalti’s music requires a high degree of musicianship to convey it accurately. Even without a copy of the score, I sensed that the Divertimento Ensemble, conducted by Sandro Gorli, is very much up to the requirements of the music. These are first-rate musicians. There is great clarity in the sound.

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