Charmolypi [I]

• Year of composition: 2023

• Instrumentation: solo piano

• Duration: 7' ca.

• Premiere: 17th November 2023 at Complesso Monumentale San Giovanni in Cava de' Tirreni (IT) by Nicolò Cafaro for Accademia Musicale Jacopo Napoli

• Program notes:

The term xαρμολύπη (charmolypi) indicates, in Greek, the joy that emerges from sadness and, conversely, the sadness that emerges from joy: a feeling that cannot exist without pain and joy, which live together and give rise to each other other.

The piece takes shape and is articulated through the dialogue between the purity of the piano resonance and the darkness that it contains, and which constitutes its very essence: in a journey made of distances and reconciliations, of delicacy and strength, of stasis and movement, the notes of the piano – in their lively and dramaturgical swarm – discover and explore the shadow of their own light. And precisely the latter, with its growing strength, emerges and ends up prevailing: the confrontation with the darkness and with the hidden and unexplored vibration behind every sound is inevitable.

A comparison which, if embraced, is nothing other than the very essence of human nature.