Franco Mirenzi - Piccolo pezzo

from the Cd "...al ritorno" http://www.mirenzi.it/CD...al%20ritorno/cd%20al%20ritorno.htm Franco Antonio Mirenzi sites: http://www.mirenzi.it http://www.youtube.com/user/mirenzi1959 http://www.myspace.com/mirenzi http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mirenzi/47383978463 Critical notes by Roberto Giuliani: Franco Antonio Mirenzi has a gift for lightness and the art of hinting. The diverse compositional techniques he employs are left, vaguely outlined, in the background, often with a sort of self-addressed irony, yet bowing to a—still recognizable—musical past. The works included in this CD form a brief sample of keyboard resources, with excursions in the realms of violin and cello. They all belong in Mirenzi's most recent output, but for a couple of slightly older pieces, and often manage to conjure up visual imagery, which makes them potentially ideal soundtracks. As we listen, the flow of time calls for our attention. It is often stretched—thus originating vast episodes in a minimalist vein—or squeezed, as in some abrupt endings, breaking all formal symmetry and leaving us helpless, as if the composer were teasing our wish to listen again. Piccolo pezzo, for cello and piano (March-April 1993) gets back to the haunting melodic quality of the cello, backed by the piano. Again, we find a duality of musical material. The piece opens with a cascading note pattern, scored for the two instruments in homorhythmic fashion, in irregular nine- and ten-sixteenth groups. Then, the music melodically breaths through spaces allowed by thin polyphonic textures. These are repeatedly alternated to the earlier cascade, which is more or less recapitulated in the final page. traslation by Marcello Piras Critical notes on original Italian version: http://www.mirenzi.it/CD...al%20ritorno/le%20note%20di%20roberto%20giuliani.htm