Bach-Kodaly-Ligeti-Ronchetti - Luca Sanzo (Vn) [CD]

A listening experience entirely dedicated to the sounds of the viola, from classical to contemporary. This is the new album byLuca Sanzo, a musician with an intense concert, recording, and teaching career, and professor of viola at the Santa Cecilia Conservatoryin Rome. A frequent guest at important venues and prestigious chamber music, contemporary, and electronic musicfestivals, Luca Sanzo has dedicated many compositions to him. The album opens with Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita in A minorfor solo flute, BWV 1013, performed in a G minor transcription; it is followed by another Bach work, the Chromatic Fantasy andFugue, BWV 903 for harpsichord, in the 1950 transcription for solo viola by Zoltan Kodaly, a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist,and teacher. The first edition was edited by violist William Primrose, who also distributed it. This fascinating and intensesonic journey through different compositional worlds continues in chronological order with Gyorgy Ligeti's Sonata for Viola Solo,composed between 1991 and 1994, in six movements, alternating between slow and fast movements. The program concludeswith Lucia Ronchetti's Requiem for Viola Solo (1982), now dedicated to Michele Sanzo, brother of Luca Sanzo. As Lucia Ronchettiexplains: 'In the Requiem I tried to create a sonic labyrinth from which there seems to be no escape, making the performance asevere physical and mental test. In this sense, Beethoven's Great Fugue, Op. 133, seemed to me the most extreme and rigorousrepresentation of a sonic prison and a search for liberation and elevation.'