Alberto Caprioli (1956-)
Vor dem Sigenden Odem, alla memoria di Luigi Nono, pour flûte, clarinette, violon, alto, violoncelle et piano (version 1992)
Andante Adagio, pour violon seul
Trois pièces pour piano pour Boguslaw
Lentissimamente
Cinquantasette quarti per pianoforte
In chiave di violino, feuille d'album pour piano
Pièce libre pour Gilles Deleuze, pour alto et 5 instruments à micro-intervalle
Senza tempo, pour piano
Aria Bizantina, pour voix et instruments
Fluggente, pour mezzo-soprano, flûte, clarinette piccolo, piano, violon, alto et violoncelle

Monica Bacelli, mezzo-soprano
Aldo Orvietto, piano
Carlo Lazari, violon
Mario Paladin, alto
Ensemble Ex Novo
Alberto Caprioli, direction

Innovation and tradition involve conflicting criteria, and Alberto Caprioli belongs to that group of composers who render their task more difficult by deciding to meet both kinds at the same time. Having a perfect knowledge of tradition, up to and including its most recent manifestations, his strategy is to pursue the New not as a goal but as a medium, in order to express the authenticity of his worldview through an original organization of sounds. In practice, tradition has never sounded like that. In listening to this music, you do not feel nostalgia for the past. A fully contemporary awareness is the only attitude on the part of the composer that can come to terms with the only time we have available to us, namely the present. This record is a coherent collection of seven pieces that make use of different combinations of the same instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano.From the point of view of the performance as well, the coherence of the record is enhanced by the presence of the same group of musicians, the Ex Novo Ensemble, who perform all pieces under the guidance of the same conductor, namely the composer himself. The overall unity of purpose is palpable.