Divertimento Ensemble - Franco Donatoni: 10 anni dopo (2010)

In August 2010, it will be ten years since Franco Donatoni s passing; a period of time which is now long enough to try to relate, also to younger listeners, the history of this musician who lived through the crucial problems of his time with a rare intensity and who remains an indispensable reference point in the contemporary music scene. In this monographic CD by Stradivarius, the Divertimento Ensemble and the Italian Saxophone Quartet are conducted by Sandro Gorli, who founded the Ensemble itself in 1977 and was Donatoni s pupil. All these pieces belong to Donatoni s most fervent period, that of which he himself said: Only the last decade offers me some reasons to become conscious of my identity...at a certain point we realize that those myriad sound events are part of a precisely ordered cosmos in which everything moves in perfectly determined trajectories and that this order, these symetries which unexpectedly briefly appear give us flashes of intelligence capable of opening new perspectives.