Della pace interrotta [II]

  • Year of composition: 2023-2024

  • Instrumentation: soprano & ensemble (flute, Bb/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello) with electronics

  • Duration: 7'30" approx.

  • Premiere: 4th July 2024 at Goethe-Institut Rom in Rome (IT) by Syntax Ensemble (conducted by Pasquale Corrado)

  • Program notes:

A melancholic return to bitterness: thus Gemma Bracco's verses are embodied in the voice, the real protagonist of the work, which in its expressive evolution tells the parable of an interrupted peace.

The gradual awareness of a renewed despondency translates into a dramaturgical articulation which, through a single narrative arc, evolves emotionally almost as if acting through sound; the ensemble and the voice blend in a directionality made of ups and downs, separations and conciliations, supported by a fundamental expressive pillar: the narration of a wounded interiority.