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Sciarrino Salvatore

Adler, Samuel

Albert, Adrienne

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Baksa, Robert

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"Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio" for flute solo

By Sciarrino Salvatore

Salvatore Sciarrino: "Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio" for flute solo was written in 2014 and dedicated to the German flutist Erik Drescher. It was premiered by Erik Drescher in 2015 at the Klangspuren Schwaz festival in Austria.
Originally written for flute with a glissando headjoint. However, a second version for standard flute was created later in 2015, specifically for flutist Matteo Cesari.
The title "Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio" (The afternoon of a parking lot alarm) reflects his late-style preoccupation with environmental sounds and "sonic ecology"—the idea of music as an antidote to urban noise. The title's reference to a "parking lot alarm" suggests a transmutation of a mundane, mechanical urban sound into a refined artistic gesture.
The year 2014 was a prolific period for Sciarrino. In the same year he composed Il pomeriggio, he also wrote the substantial solo flute work Autostrada prima di Babilonia and the vocal-orchestral work La nuova Euridice secondo Rilke.

Matteo Cesari

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Matteo Cesari

2021, KAIROS / Kontor New Media

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Sciarrino Salvatore

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) is an Italian composer, regarded as one of the most performed Italian composers of contemporary classical music. Born in Sicily, he moved to Rome to study electronic music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Later he moved to Milan where he taught at the Milan Conservatory. His compositional style was greatly influenced by modernist composer Luigi Nono. Sciarrino's music is avant-garde but complemented with a frequent use of silence.  "...there's one thing without which no delight in sound makes sense, and that is the intensity of silence."
His music can be regarded as complex articulatory blocks which Sciarrino calls "figures", constantly balancing between "being" and "not-being" in terms of traditional sounds.  The concept of the mystical Void has been present throughout many of his works. Among his most noteworthy compositions: opera Amore e Psiche (1972), Un’immagine di Arpocrate (1979) for piano, choir and orchestra. During 1980s and 1990s he created numerous compositions for solo instruments and small ensembles. One of his most outstanding work: II cerchio tagliato dei suoni (1997) for four solo flutes and 100 migrant flutes.