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Artist:	CLEMENTI, ALDO
Title:	Works With Guitar
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 182CD

"Like his near contemporary Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi (b.1925) is an Italian composer who has had a very fruitful association with that most Italian of instruments, the guitar. Both Clementi and Donatoni shared similar paths in their compositional development: the early influences of major early 20th-century composers through the adoption and later rejection of serialism and the Darmstadt courses they both attended, culminating in their very individual mature styles. Clementi's recent pieces are influenced by visual artists, particularly the intricately recursive figures in the lithographs of M.C. Escher and the richly repetitive surfaces of the paintings of the contemporary Italians Dorazio and Vasarely. Clementi saturates the aural surface of his works with repetitive moving lines whose motion becomes subsumed into an aural stasis -- mechanisms that appear to go nowhere and inevitably fold back upon themselves, seemingly collapsing into negativity and decay that nonetheless project a compelling sonic sensuality. This is the first complete CD devoted to Clementi's compositions involving the guitar. All first recordings."

Artist:	CLEMENTI, ALDO
Title:	Works With Flutes
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 224CD

Performed by Roberto Fabbriciani (flutes) and Alvise Vidolin (electronics). "The release of this CD in 2010 celebrates Aida Clementi's 75th birthday. Clementi is one of the remaining living composers of the avant-garde generation, which included Berio, Nona and Maderna. This disc of Clementi's works for flute are performed by one of his long-time collaborators, Roberto Fabbriciani. Many of these works utilize Clementi's signature explorations of the cannon form, acoustic illusions inspired by his fascination with the optical illusions in absurd spaces created by Escher. This is the first complete CD devoted to Clementi's compositions for flute. Fabbriciani is one of the world's leading flutists in new music, some of these works were written for or dedicated to him. Liner notes by Gianluigi Mattietti. A virtuoso performer, Roberto Fabbriciani is a noted innovator of flute techniques through his personal research of the instrument's sonorous possibilities. He worked closely for many years with Luigi Nono in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiberg, blazing new and unusual sounds in music. He has collaborated with, premiered or had dedications from major composers of our time, including: Berio, Cage, Dallapiccola, Donatoni, Dallapicolla, Ferneyhough, Krenek, Kurtag, Ligeti, Messiaen, Morricone, Petrassi, Rihm, Rota, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen, and Takemitsu."

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