G. Martucci, La Canzone dei Ricordi, n.1 ´no, svaniti non sono...`, C. Madalin, A.Bonavera
Giuseppe Martucci, 1856-1909, started working on his song cycle ´la canzone dei ricordi` (the song of remembrance) from 1886 on, exactly when G. Mahler had just completed composing his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The cycle comprises seven (6+1) poems by Rocco Emanuele Pagliara dealing with a trouble sensation of loss of love. What is amazing is that during the biggest part of the cycle we do not know who is talking and to whom is directed. Love could be maternal, religious, mystic, amorous. Only in the fifth poem (in a poetic setting similar to Erwartung) we have brief indications that a woman is referring to a man. In the first song the heroine in a dreamlike, allmost dellusional state of mind still hopes to find again and cling again to someone she used to adore, only to painfully confirm that the other person has vanished in the distant horizon. The music, then, sounds menacing, leading to a fearful, unknown area. This song cycle ends with the abbreviated version of the the first poem as though the poet and the composer want to remind us that all in love finishes where it started. A very suggestive, lyrical work of the end of the 19th century, historically the first italian song cycle, in Wagnerian dark but vibrant colours, dealing with the loss of love and the ensued loss of direction or inprisonment into a fantasy world, according to the text. The end of the 19th century in Europe was a transition period that still fascinates me. Volcanic changes all over the <b>...</b>
Giuseppe Martucci la canzone dei ricordi no svaniti non sono sogni Carol Madalin mezzosoprano Alfredo Bonavera conductor english chamber orchestra pslogge
