| Description |
L’abbandono e la corsa (“Abandon and race”) for flute and piano (July 2008) is the piece this CD is named after. The score has: “To my dad, (…) for all the times he brought me to train-watching”. No extra-musical program is implied, yet the music, as often in Mirenzi, may evoke such imagery as vague landscapes and fog. (The opening marking is “Slow and light—Let it vibrate”). The dedication is a mere personal statement, however it is appended to the piece that the composer feels as the closest one to his present-day conception. His “communicative” musical thinking is made of precious few elements; actually, most of the piece is built on the three pitches forming the B-flat major triad. Only in the “race” section G flat is added, as to suggest movement. Toward the end, we find one of those displacement effects that are well known from the composer’s earlier works—a tonal shift and a more melodic passage quickly heading to the finale, break any likely simmetry, and almost urging us to re-listen. |