{"product_id":"sollima-ensemble-kinari-chamber-music","title":"Ensemble Kinari: Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eChamber Music\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eEnsemble Kinari\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eBrilliant Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e5028421962870\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2021-06-25\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Eliodoro Sollima (1926-2000) was a Sicilian musician raised in the town of Marsala, where the concert hall is dedicated to his memory. From 1954 to 1991 he taught composition at the conservatoire in Palermo, where he was also the institution's director for 16 years. This is the only album dedicated to his music: new recordings made by a young contemporary music ensemble, who are joined by the composer's son, Giovanni Sollima, a cellist and composer in his own right who has made several previous albums for Brilliant Classics. Sollima studied piano with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and he wrote for his instrument with a thorough grasp of it's range as a Romantic instrument - Italian TV broadcasts preserve some unfussily accomplished performances of Liszt - which courses through his best-known piece, the Toccata of 1951. However, his idiom embraced a Bartokian toughness of rhythm, most vividly demonstrated here by the three movements for piano trio (for which Sollima received compliments from Isaac Stern). In 1968 he wrote a powerful concerto for string orchestra in memory of Bobby Kennedy, and the tortured harmonies of this piece carry over into both the contemporaneous piano trio and the later 'Evoluziona No.5' for violin and piano. However, the album surveys the full range of Sollima's oeuvre, from the brief and touching Aria he composed for a chamber quintet as a 19-year-old, to a compact Cello Sonata written at the age of 22 in 1948. From almost half a century later dates the 'Legend of St Damiano', a single-movement piano quartet that effectively synthesizes the evolution of the composer's music. Luciano Tarantino recorded Giovanni Sollima's own music on a 'Cello Solo Journey' released in 2019 by Brilliant Classics (95964). His own playing can also be enjoyed on a 2014 album of Offenbach's cello duets (94475).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Sonata for cello and piano~I. Lento (recitativo) - Allegro viva \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Sonata for cello and piano~II. Andante molto espressivo \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Sonata for cello and piano~III. Perpetuum mobile - Allegro con spirito \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Studi for violin and Clarinet~Allegro ritmico \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Studi for violin and Clarinet~Lento \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Studi for violin and Clarinet~Presto \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Tre Movimenti for piano, violin and cello~I. Allegro \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Tre Movimenti for piano, violin and cello~II. Andante Sostenuto \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Tre Movimenti for piano, violin and cello~III. Vivace \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Evoluziona No. 5 for piano and violin \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Quartetto No. 3 \"La leggenda di San Damiano\" for piano, violin, viola and cello \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Aria for piano, violin, viola and 2 cellos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio Sample:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ci\u003eAll soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/185386816\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Ensemble Kinari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500259295303,"sku":"41661437","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3968969-2728072.jpg?v=1711737948","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/sollima-ensemble-kinari-chamber-music","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}