Ne' retrosi passi

• Year of composition: 2022

• Instrumentation: soprano sax & alto sax

• Duration: 2' approx.

• Premiere: 5th November 2022 at Pinacoteca Civica in Como (IT) by Laura Chittolina and Andrea Carrozzo (Eccetera Saxophone) for Festival del Melologo 2022

• Program notes:

The work is part of the Dante22 project by Edizioni Sconfinarte, and aims to pay homage to Canto X of Dante's Purgatory.

The Canto describes the encounter between the poet and the souls of the proud: if the latter are condemned to walk bent carrying large boulders on their backs, the sounds of the saxophones – and the dialogue between the two instruments – highlight the contrast between lightness and burden, between liberation and suffering.