Twilight travelers Œuvres pour piano de Mozart Schubert et Silvestrov Spazian - CR129 -

The debut album of Francesco Spazian with a bold project that combines Schubert and Mozart to the post-modern suggestions by Valentin Silvestrov The meaning of the project is illustrated in the in-depth notes written by the musicologist Andrea Bedetti: “Don’t be surprised […] by the presence of Valentin Silvestrov […]. The choice of these pieces proposed here, Zwei Dialoge mit Nachwort (2001-02) and Der Bote (1996), is directly linked to the presence of the Schubert and Mozart sonatas; if the Dialogues reflect the timbre concept of the postlude (precisely the “Nachwort”), the ideal progression of Schubert’s Sonata in A minor could only be with the first fragment of the Dialogues, the Hochzeitswalzer, derived from that Schubert (with the complementary and “bonding” G flat major tonality), while Der Bote is a placid Rondo that directly refers to the musicality and to the dance rhythms of Mozart. The latter, in particular, highlights one of the main characteristics of the aesthetic/musical vision of the Ukrainian composer, a disarming exterior-paralysis/interior-vitality (expanded here by the indication of the author who warns that the piece must be performed with a closed sound box) in which every note, every chord, although ideally and necessarily connected with each other, takes on its own precious and irreducible timbre and physical autonomy, in which the silence that surrounds them makes their inner effects reflect and intensify.” Franz Schubert Sonata in A minor, Op. posth. 164, D 537 Valentin Silvestrov Zwei Dialoge mit Nachwort Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in C major, K 330 Valentin Silvestrov Der Bote Francesco Spazian regularly performs in important festivals, cultural events and concert series. Winner of several national and international awards, he also has an intense chamber music activity, mainly with the Quartetto Anthos (of which he was the founder) and in duo with the violinist and composer Marcello Fera. He studied with Konstantin Bogino, Svetlana Bogino and Pier Narciso Masi at the Scuola Superiore Internazionale di Musica da Camera del Trio di Trieste in Duino, at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and with the Trio di Parma. He recorded for Sample Records and Wide Classique and his recordings are broadcast by the main radio stations such as Radio Classica and Rai Radio 3.