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February 2008
Performance in Saarbrücken, Germany
The viola player Tatjana
Masurenko will perform Lombardi´s Bab for viola (2003)
on February 12 (9 pm) in the frame of the Forum Neue
Musik. It is possible to hear the concert with works
for viola by Bruno Maderna, Dimitri Terzakis,
Aristides Strongylis, Georg Philipp Telemann and
Georg Friedrich Händel/Toshio Hosokawa as Live
stream:
Website
Saarländischer Rundfunk.
World Premiere of
Terra for large orchestra
On Friday, February
1st 2008, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai will
present Luca Lombardi´s new work Terra for
large orchestra in Torino in Auditorium Rai Arturo
Toscanini. Franck Ollu will be the conductor. The
premiere is broadcasted via radio and internet on
April 20, 8.30 pm: Website Rai Radio 3 (Button
ascolta RADIO 3 in diretta at the top of the
site.)
Luca Lombardi writes
about the work:
For biographical reasons, I have an Italian and
German background, but I’d rather think of myself as
a European composer. The nations that belong to the
European Union are becoming more and more regions –
each one rich of important traditions – of a single
entity. In the same way my music is unitary – being
the creation of a single person – but enriched by
different "regions". My musical experiences, from
avant-garde to popular music, allowed me to develop
a language which is both plural and unitary at the
same time, a language to be drawn upon according to
the different projects.
By entitling this composition Terra (Earth, but also
Soil, Ground, or Land) I thought of the different
meanings of the Italian term: the planet we live in,
the solid part of the earth’s surface, the land as a
nation, and last but not least one of the four
elements. The initial stimulus came from the second
meaning and its material implications (underground
telluric movements).
Part of this composition was written while I was
travelling in Israel, a "land" I particularly love.
There I considered naming the piece "Eretz", in
Hebrew, which in the combination "eretz israel"
means Land of Israel. For this very reason I
included two quotations from Israeli melodies: the
first one from the song "Live in this land", the
second one taken from "Hope", the State of Israel’s
anthem. My hope is that this state will keep
existing, for its own good as well as for the good
of its neighbours and ours.
Can such social and philosophical commitment
permeate instrumental works then? I firmly believe
in the difference of genres: an opera is different
from an oratorio, as it is obviously different from
an instrumental work. This being said, I believe
that behind each composition – for solo instrument,
a string quartet or an opera – there is the same
motivation giving sense to my work: to write a
self-sufficient piece, needing no ideological or
aesthetical "crutches", the evidence of a man whose
music is involved in the matters of his times. Terra
is dedicated to Luigi Taglioni, publisher, friend
and precious interlocutor.
December 2007
Portrait Concert
in Genoa
The Nomos String
Quartet and the soprano Alda Caiello are the
interpreters of two works by Lombardi: La Canzone
di Greta for strinq quartet and the second
string quartet Warum? are combined with
Robert Schumann´s quartet Op. 41 No. 1. The concert is
part of the concert row Concerti Ritratto di
compositori contemporanei in Genoa.
Thursday, December
20: Casa Paganini, piazza S. Maria in Passione 34, 8
pm (Introduction to the concert with Lombardi at 6 pm)
Concert Folder
A New Trio in
Bremen
On Tuesday, December
4, the young and outstanding Lombardi Trio will
present the premiere of a new Trio in Bremen. The work
is commissioned by the Philharmonic Society Bremen and
is supported by the Waldemar Koch Foundation. Leonard
Elschenbroich (cello), Eric Lamb (flute) and
Konstantin Arro (piano) will combine the premiere with
works by Carl Maria von Weber (Trio in g op. 63
for flute, cello and piano), George Crumb (Vox
Balaenae) and Einstein Dialog for
cello and flute composed by Lombardi in 2005.
Tuesday, December 4:
Die Glocke, Kleiner Saal, 8 pm
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