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È in edicola Suonare News di ottobre con il bellissimo cd inedito del pianista Costantino Catena

I.Presti: Complete solo guitar music - Carlotta Dalia - 5 Stelle su MUSICA

“… Ida Presti fu un’autentica fanciulla prodigio, bruciando le tappe in ogni riguardo della sua esistenza: Carlotta Dalia per questo aspetto non è stata poi da meno, debuttando a soli dodici anni e incidendo il primo CD a sedici (la Presti registrò i primi leggendari 78 giri per la Pathe ́ Marconi ad appena quattordici!). Oggi, ventiduenne, la chitarrista di Grosseto appare interprete assolutamente matura, e sembra aver compiuto in quest’occasione un notevole la- voro di immedesimazione: il suo fraseggio ardente appare ispirato da quello della grande antesignana, pur con l’"aggiornamento" stilistico inevitabile, dati i settantacinque anni esatti che separano le rispettive date di nascita. Colpiscono l’estrema sincerità dell’interpretazione, il carattere diretto e coinvolgente dell’eloquio, la flessibilità con cui aderisce alle continue mutazioni di umore degli spartiti, il suono sempre corposo ed espressivo anche nelle pagine di maggiore difficoltà tecnica…”

Roberto Brusotti - MUSICA ottobre 21

 

THE WALLS by Sergio Assad feat. Yo-Yo Ma

THE WALLS by Sergio Assad feat. Yo-Yo Ma

This is huge! The Walls is one of the biggest and most challenging projects I've ever had the privilege to work on.

It features a gorgeous composition in five movements by Sergio Assad, an extraordinary, sensitive performance by the one and only Yo-Yo Ma on cello, 60 of the world's most recognized classical guitarists and Clarice Assad on bass.

My goal with this project has been to really push the limits of the virtual ensemble art form. Is it possible to assemble home recorded videos into something that sounds like it was recorded in a studio and looks fresh and visually attractive, even after so many virtual videos have been published since the start of the pandemic? Well, of course this is up to the audience to decide, but thanks to the huge effort from every musician involved to create the best possible performance video, I think the vision was realized.

The Walls took quite a few months to complete, a lot of attention has been given to the balance of sound so that every element of this composition comes to life. Additionally, countless sequences were designed and animated from scratch to help the story come across - a message of hope and friendship in the uncertain times we're living in.

Thanks so much to Sergio, Yo-Yo Ma, Clarice Assad and all the 60 guitarists:

Bokyung Byun, Shanshan Chen, 福田進一, Ekachai Jearakul, Li Jie, Thu Le, Yen Lee, Xianju Liu, Takuya Okamoto, Meng Su, Tengyue Zhang, Yameng Wang, Giampaolo Bandini, Carlotta Dalia, Aniello Desiderio, Mark Eden, Stephanie Jones, Lucio Matarazzo, Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli, David Russell (Classical Guitarist), Richard Savino, Laura Snowden, Chris Stell, Artyom Dervoed, Zoran Dukic, Antigoni Goni, Paola Hermosín, Tilman Hoppstock, Jérémy Jouve, Mateusz Kowalski - Classical Guitarist, Judicaël Perroy, Classical Guitarist, Pablo Sainz Villegas, Pavel Steidl, Ana Vidovic, Thomas Viloteau, Badi Assad, Odair Assad, Daniel Bolshoy, Tariq Harb, Alexandra Viloteau, William Kanengiser, Kamal Abdul-Malak, Adam Del Monte, David Tanenbaum, Marc Teicholz, Elodie Bouny, Yamandu Costa, Eliot Fisk, Pablo Garibay, Dale Kavanagh, Duo Siqueira Lima, Douglas Lora, Martha Masters, João Luiz Rezende, Berta Rojas, Scott Tennant and Ben Verdery.

Follow this link and set reminder for the premiere tomorrow:

Thursday, 7th October at: noon LA time | 3pm NY time | 8pm London time | 21:00 Berlin time || Friday, 8th October at: 3am Beijing time | 4am Tokyo time.