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AGP33 features music by Goffredo Petrassi, one of the leading Italian composers of the 20th century, and the least well known of them outside of Italy. In all honesty, I'm not sure I had even once listened to the LPs from which these tracks were transcribed, before an AGP partisan requested an installment of Petrassi. Now having listened to his works, I absolutely love what I hear. Born in 1904, Petrassi was in his fifties and sixties when he wrote the music included in this installment--music that sounds every bit as advanced as the works of his much younger contemporaries, with a dignity and self-assurance that came presumably from two more decades of experience in composition. These works have all of the challenging harmonies and timbres that one expects from that era, with a natural and engaging musicality. The five tracks in this installment were drawn from two LPs on the Italia label--one devoted to Petrassi and the other an anthology of contemporary harp music played by Claudia Antonelli. Estri (1967) is for 15 performers. Tre per Sette (1966) is for three performers playing seven wind instruments. Serenata (1958) is for five performers, and to my ear compares favorably to chamber works by Berio and Maderna from that decade. Beatitudines, Testimonianza per Martin Luther King (1969) is for baritone and five performers. Flou (1980) is for solo harp. The installment includeds a text file containing the liner notes from both LPs. The notes in Italian are an unedited output of my OCR program. To download AGP33 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.
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