Federico Mompou: Música callada (The Music of Silence), IV / Massimo Somenzi (Live Session) скачать в хорошем качестве

Federico Mompou: Música callada (The Music of Silence), IV / Massimo Somenzi (Live Session)

Musica Callada La noche sosegada en par de los levantes del aurora, la música callada, la soledad sonora, la cena que recrea y enamora. Juan de la Cruz, Cántico espiritual, Canciones entre el alma y el esposo, 15 Composed between 1959 and 1967, the cycle of Musica Callada—a collection of twenty-eight pieces gathered into four notebooks—is the work that most reflects the musical poetics of the Catalan composer Federico Mompou. The title Musica Callada (silent music), given to the entire collection, is drawn from a lyric by Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystical poet and churchman. Much has been said about the untranslatability of this oxymoron, which might correspond in Italian to musica zittita, musica tranquilla, or "silent music," as Mompou himself suggests at the beginning of the first notebook. Musica Callada revolves around a fundamental contradiction: that between sound and its opposite, silence—a negation of sound itself. This work does not aim to describe but rather distances itself from the pages of predecessors such as Albéniz and Granados, whose music carries a vitalistic and unsettling españolismo. While the large forms of these composers contrast with Mompou’s miniatures, Mompou opts for extreme formal contraction and maximal essentiality of structural ideas. His musical thought becomes more intimate, employing a sparse writing style where seductive harmonies vibrate against melodic fragments, tonal and modal reminiscences. There is no strict dialectical relationship between the musical elements; instead, they flow freely from the composer’s mind, creating suggestive and dreamlike moments. Mompou embraces a compositional method based on pure inspiration and sonic imagination, guided by the acoustic reality of each individual harmony. This rejects conventional compositional processes of harmonic tension and resolution. Thus, the tempo of each miniature lacks specific direction (as in classical sonata form) but follows the evocative force of each sound. Musica Callada can be seen as a sort of personal diary in which Mompou shares deeply intimate and sincere confessions. Mompou’s great art lies in capturing the essential and finding profound reflections within simplicity. He is a master of intimacy, aspiring to "let the voice of the pure soul, the solitary soul, sing itself within itself," as Jankélévitch notes. Mompou shows us that the art of music, like life, is not just about presence (of sound, relationships, formal architecture…) but also absence. Musica Callada implicitly invites us to connect with our inner selves, establishing a dialogue not with the external world but with the inner depths of each of us. The biography of Federico Mompou aligns closely with his personal musical poetics, characterized by reserve and intimacy. Born in Barcelona in 1893, the composer lived a life marked by difficult moments: the complex circumstances arising from two world wars in Spain and France, a period of financial hardship following his father’s death, and his brother’s illness, which distanced him from composition. Eventually, he withdrew to private life in his native city, where he passed away in 1987. A singular significant journey was his move to Paris to study piano and composition. There, he became immersed in the fertile Parisian musical landscape, which launched his career. Mompou’s works were highly esteemed by some of the most prominent musicians of the 20th century, including Rosa Sabater, Arthur Rubinstein, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Alicia de Larrocha, to whom the fourth book of Musica Callada is dedicated. Leonardo Francescon _ Massimo Somenzi, Venetian pianist and former Conservatory director, is a successful performer who has graced the stages of the world’s most prestigious theaters both as a soloist and alongside eminent musicians such as Mario Brunello and George Romero. A multifaceted personality, Somenzi infuses his music with a profound sensitivity, creating an atmosphere that is at once rarefied and rich, suspended in the delicate balance of breath and introspection. ___ Don't forget to share our music and to subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/onclassical?s... Want to license our music? Check this: http://www.onclassical.com/texts/lice...