Fondazione Atopos

Trythall, virtuoso pianist, specialist in contemporary piano music and in the music of composers such as Charles Ives and Jelly Roll Morton, presents a work which was composed over the course of several years. His language, characterized by...

This large work for clarinet, violin, ’cello and piano testifies to the fact that music’s spirituality can offer a ray of hope even in the darkest moments in which an artist, a human being, may find him or herself. In fact, the concepti...

Many important composers have expressed their enthusiastic appreciation of Roberto Fabbriciani - from Cage to Nono. The recital which Fabbriciani gave in Sogna exploited a variety of performing spaces - indoors and outdoors - within the vil...

For Drouet, improvisation offers a true scenic space for musical theatre. With a capacity not easily described, he guides us through an itinerary which unites game play with commitment to a research for new sounds creating sonic realities i...

Bruno Canino is the most important Italian pianist of his generation. His tireless activity - as soloist and in the company of internationally famous concert artists - has carried him throughout the world. His repertoire is without limits a...

A leading member of the avant-garde musical panorama during the 1960’s, Globokar unites his role as a world class trombonist with a vast compositional output. In his works, the performing gesture is joined intimately with sonic research -...

The case of David Moss is unique. This extraordinary vocalist has a range which goes from bass through high soprano, a powerful voice and a perfectly calibrated intonation. These characteristics make him an exceptional performer who, during...

This valuable recording documents the exceptional meeting of Bussotti, Cardini, Chiari and Lombardi. Together for the first time, these four composer-pianists are the protagonists of "Florentine Art Music" - an important phenomenon in the h...

More than 50 years of musical culture have taken place in Florence since the end of World War 2. This should be systematically explored. Besides the celebrations, it is time to acknowledge that, during the 1960’s, Florence produced a "Mus...

… "soli" is expanding the presumed limits of an instrument with the help of a personal musical language is central to my approach to the instrument. The focal point is the playful method of improvising with this vocabulary. The performing...

John Tilbury has given concerts and broadcasts of new music, including first performances, in many countries around the world. His solo recordings include Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, from the seventies, and more rece...

Teodoro Anzellotti was born at Candela in Puglia, but grew up near Baden-Baden and studied at the conservatories of Karlsruhe and Trossingen under Jürgen Habermann and Hugo Noth. Teodoro Anzellotti is the winner of numerous international a...

Endangered Species is a space, a container which holds my sound archive in little vials of distilled essences. An archive of distillations culled from years of listening to everything from the mumbled sounds in dreams to threatening roars o...

Pietro Grossi was trained as a violoncellist and composer. The present opportunity offers us the chance to listen to his early instrumental works and to consider the exemplary coherence which characterized his development throughout the fol...

In this journey, Sequenza II by Luciano Berio is a true milestone. It is part of a larger project by the composer (fourteen Sequenze), who wanted to explore and investigate "the measures beyond the measures" in each instrument, in an instru...

My first encounter with Stockhausen’s music was through a record I heard during the sixties. The pieces that so completely enmeshed me were entitled "Refrain" and "Kontakte". This was music the likes of which I had never heard before. Sho...

A fundamental aspect of Cage’s concept of music, from the form to the event, was randomness, improvisation, movable structure, impromptu choices by the performer, more or less guided by schemes that often are only indications of time segm...

Appreciating For Philip Guston requires a totally different idea of the passing of time. It is a lengthy piece and calls for an approach to the listening experience which is quite diverse from that of a more conventional piece of music. It ...

The first CD of this double album contains a series of compositions in which percussion is the protagonist. I was very surprised to see how Gubaidulina dealt with them, layering a complex fabric of up to seven different sets and how she the...

Like nature, Feldman’s music has an indestructible quality, for all its surface fragility. As a personality Feldman was abrasive but brittle; he could be insensitive to the feelings of others but one sensed in him a vulnerability. «The r...

On this recording, as I have already done in the past, I appropriated music that belonged to other instruments to create apocryphal versions of it (sometimes with license) and then delivered them to the final and resolute judgment of the au...

Aldo Bennici has journeyed through half a century of Italian music with the fast and sometimes feverish pace of a protagonist, but also with the lively eye of the witness. He has been at the centre - as an interpreter - of that vortex of ...

The flute is perhaps the oldest musical instrument, found in every civilization – each with its own variation according to the sensibility. In Western culture the flute draws a melodic line parallel to the human voice, overcoming its lim...

When it comes to personal encounters, there are events for which the definition "mysterious" would be a huge understatement, and this is true of my meeting with Daniele Lombardi. I got to know the artist well (but the man far less so), wi...