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Artist:	CLEMENTI, ALDO
Title:	Punctum Contra Punctum
Label:	DIE SCHACHTEL (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	DIES 012CD

"On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Die Schachtel is proud to present Punctum Contra Punctum, a deluxe compact disc box dedicated to Aldo Clementi, one of the most important figures of Italian music of the 20th century. Born in Sicily in 1925, he studied piano and later composition under the guidance of teachers such as Goffredo Petrassi and Bruno Maderna, who also introduced him to electronic music at the RAI Studio of Phonology in Milan. Like many composers of the period, he employed serial technique early in his work, to abandon it later on in favor of a very personal, ingenious and unique method for creating new music. Blessed with extraordinary skills of invention and assimilation, Clementi may be the one living composer for whom 'genius' is not too strong a word. His musical language is extremely articulate and profound, resulting in a fascination with obsessive repetitions, collages, canons, and incredibly complex rhythmic textures which have to be heard to be believed. At the same time his music maintains to stay fresh, dynamic and highly enjoyable. A must-have for all the modern music lovers, and a great discovery for the most adventurous and prepared listener. The CD box -- silver-foil design on a matte white paper CD-box edition, complete with a lovingly designed 64-page booklet in English and Italian."

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."

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