Risonanze erranti a Massimo Cacciari - Nono, Luigi 1924-1990; Melville, Herman 1819-1891; Bachmann, Ingeborg 1926-1973 (Milan Ricordi, 1996)
Risonanze erranti (Wandering Resonances), composed in 1986, premiered in March that same year in Cologne, which was followed by two more performances in Turin 1986 and Paris 1987, before arriving at the final version. This work stands as the first stage of a cycle of Lieder that was to develop in parallel with the post-prae ludi (No. 1 “for Donau” and No. 3 “BAAB-ARR”), compositions conceived “before” Prometheus. (...) The work is dedicated to Massimo Cacciari, who edited the texts of Prometheus and many other works of this period (...). In Risonanze erranti, Nono uses fragments of texts by Herman Melville, especially from the Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) and Ingeborg Bachmann (Kleine Delikatessen, 1963) with musical echoes of the past from Guillaume de Machaut (Lay de plour), Josquin Desprez (Adieu mes amours) and Johannes Ockeghem (Malheur me bat). He alternates strong dynamic contrasts in the percussion with dry strokes of the bongos and crotales that become sonic caresses when the percussionists graze with their hands the wrinkled surface of Sardinian shepherds' bells, the skin of the drums, and the metalo discs of the crotales. These subliminal sonorities are further multiplied and projected into acoustic space through electronics, with a bank of 8 electronic echoes characterized by a precise rhythmic structure that is asymmetrical in its iterated repetition. -Alvise Vidolin (Translated with DeepL.com)
Liederzyklus (...) per contralto, flauto, tuba, sei percussioni e live electronics
Keywords: Cacciari, Massimo; Chamber music