Nicola Sani (1961-)
AchaB, pour clarinette
Oltre il deserto spazio, pour flûte, clarinette, violon, violoncelle et piano
Come une specie di infinito, pour violoncelle et piano
Verso un altro occidente, pour flûte, clarinette, alto, piano et percussion
RAW, pour violon
A time for the evening, pour clarinette, violon, violoncelle et piano
Vidi in terra angelici costumi, pour ensemble
Sul denaro, pour récitant et ensemble d'après un texte de Luigi Pestalozza

Moni Ovadia, récitante
Contemportensemble
Mauro Ceccanti, direction

With this disc we begin a journey in a space-time that is non-linear, non-diachronic but synchronic: plurality of occasions, simultaneousness of faces, correlations of dedications, analogies of ensembles, speculativeness of composition projects. All enclosed in a single creative thought, cohesive, outstretched towards recurring themes, always investigated anew; eight works, six in the first world recording, composed between 1997 and 2011. The ensembles are various: the solo instrument (the clarinet in B flat of AchaB and the solo violin of RAW), the cello-piano duo (Come in una specie di infinito), a heterogeneous quartet (clarinet, violin, cello and piano in A time for the evening), two specular quintets (Oltre il deserto spazio and Verso un altro occidente) and an ensemble variously composed for the last two works - Vidi in terra angelici costumi e Sul denaro – to which in the last phase a speaking voice is added. It is evidently the traditional instruments that prevail, ‘renouncing’ technology and electronics, which had often led Sani to investigate music in relation to the image and to space, dwelling on its intermediality.