Lorenzo Pone - Four Japanese Songs op. 4
- Duration: 8:53
- Updated: 13 Nov 2014
for voice, cello and piano (two pianists)
Eleonora Claps, soprano
Chiara Mallozzi, violoncello
Bernardo M. Sannino and Lorenzo Pone, piano
Salvatore Carannante, technician of live recording
Texts by Vincenzo Capitanucci (Haiku I and III), Liana Margescu (Haiku II) and Augusto Villa (Haiku IV)
Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti - Ente Morale
LIVE RECORDING - Naples, 10th May 2012 "Scarlattilab / electronics"
This work has been commissioned by Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti and Università degli Studi Federico II of Naples, to be performed during the first "Scarlattilab / electronics" dedicated to contemporary music.
The score is written for a singer with a cello and a piano: this last instrument is played by two pianists. The four japanese poems used as sung text in this work, are sung in Italian and all four speak about the idea of "gift". Cello and piano have the role to imitate typical istruments used for vocal accompainments in the traditional japanese music: cello is used like a "koto" and piano is played like a non - definite percussion (it could be a "gong" or a "wood-block"...). In particular, the piano must be played by two pianists, because the piano techinque used in this work is not traditional: strings are plucked by the interior of the instrument and keys are just used to produce noises, sound/noises, percussive effects or a few single notes and chords. Also single notes and chords need that pianists put their hands into the instrument: often it's necessary to make a little pressure on certain zones of the strings to obtain quarter tones, microtones, harmonics and percussive sounds (wood - block and gong effects). The sung text is in Italian, but text is voluntarily folded to imitate japanese pronounciation: syllabes are sometimes stressed in an exagerated way, or dilated and pronounced with nasal intonation and with a large use of microtones and micro - intervals. A special kind of glissando, typical of japanese traditional vocalists, is also frequently used. All poems speak about "gift": in Japan poems are considered a kind of present that humans could give to "shintos" (japanese deities). Coinciseness and economy of means are typical of japanese arts and my effort aims to evoke this particular poetic climate, this "emotion's distillate".
Lorenzo Pone (Naples, Italy) pianist and composer. Admitted with the hightest valutation at Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples, he there studies composition with Giancarlo Turaccio. After 2006 he continued with Francesco Mariani his piano education and studies. At age of 13 he was invited by Scone's Dukes in Scotland as player and improviser on the organ in Scone's Palace. In 2011 he was selected for Paul Badura Skoda's piano courses in Vienna and he received in this occasion a special mention and invitations for classes, courses and concerts. In October 2011 he won the Rome International Piano Competition and he received a special mention for his Bach's, Mozart's and Liszt's interpretations and a scholarship for Toronto School of Music, Canada. In October 2012 he made a recording for the french tv channel "Arté", giving an interview about Maurice Emmanuel's chamber music, the subject of the documentary signed by Anne Bramard - Blagny: that recorded performance with the interview will be on air in all Europe on September 2013. In August 2013 he won the international piano competition during the XVIII edition of Semana Internacional de Piano de Obidos (Portugal). Actually he studies piano under the guide of Francesco Mariani in Napoli and, since 2011, under the guide of Paul Badura Skoda in Vienna. He gave recitals in Schloss Laudon - Vienna, Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti - Naples, Scone Palace Concert Hall - Scotland, Foyer of San Carlo Theater - Naples, San Lorenzo in Lucina Church - Rome, Institut Françaix de Grenoble, Palazzo Ducale - Capalbio; he received special recognizements by Paul Badura Skoda, Michael Levinas, Aline Zylberajch, Ulrike Sych. In 2012 the historical Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti of Naples, in association with University Federico II of Naples, commissioned him a composition: it will be "Four Japanese Songs op. 4"; he also composed film soundtracks (expecially for mute french cinema like Alfred Manchin's "Le Manoir de la Peur - 1924 and J. C. Bernard's "Naples" - 1929), works for solo intruments, chamber music with voice. Some of his chamber music works (for example "Four Japanese Songs op. 4" and "Kharman op. 5") have been published in 2013 for the collection "punto.org" (Editoriale Scientifica - Naples, Italy) and for University Bocconi's official international editions (Milan - Italy).
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for voice, cello and piano (two pianists)
Eleonora Claps, soprano
Chiara Mallozzi, violoncello
Bernardo M. Sannino and Lorenzo Pone, piano
Salvatore Carannante, technician of live recording
Texts by Vincenzo Capitanucci (Haiku I and III), Liana Margescu (Haiku II) and Augusto Villa (Haiku IV)
Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti - Ente Morale
LIVE RECORDING - Naples, 10th May 2012 "Scarlattilab / electronics"
This work has been commissioned by Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti and Università degli Studi Federico II of Naples, to be performed during the first "Scarlattilab / electronics" dedicated to contemporary music.
The score is written for a singer with a cello and a piano: this last instrument is played by two pianists. The four japanese poems used as sung text in this work, are sung in Italian and all four speak about the idea of "gift". Cello and piano have the role to imitate typical istruments used for vocal accompainments in the traditional japanese music: cello is used like a "koto" and piano is played like a non - definite percussion (it could be a "gong" or a "wood-block"...). In particular, the piano must be played by two pianists, because the piano techinque used in this work is not traditional: strings are plucked by the interior of the instrument and keys are just used to produce noises, sound/noises, percussive effects or a few single notes and chords. Also single notes and chords need that pianists put their hands into the instrument: often it's necessary to make a little pressure on certain zones of the strings to obtain quarter tones, microtones, harmonics and percussive sounds (wood - block and gong effects). The sung text is in Italian, but text is voluntarily folded to imitate japanese pronounciation: syllabes are sometimes stressed in an exagerated way, or dilated and pronounced with nasal intonation and with a large use of microtones and micro - intervals. A special kind of glissando, typical of japanese traditional vocalists, is also frequently used. All poems speak about "gift": in Japan poems are considered a kind of present that humans could give to "shintos" (japanese deities). Coinciseness and economy of means are typical of japanese arts and my effort aims to evoke this particular poetic climate, this "emotion's distillate".
Lorenzo Pone (Naples, Italy) pianist and composer. Admitted with the hightest valutation at Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples, he there studies composition with Giancarlo Turaccio. After 2006 he continued with Francesco Mariani his piano education and studies. At age of 13 he was invited by Scone's Dukes in Scotland as player and improviser on the organ in Scone's Palace. In 2011 he was selected for Paul Badura Skoda's piano courses in Vienna and he received in this occasion a special mention and invitations for classes, courses and concerts. In October 2011 he won the Rome International Piano Competition and he received a special mention for his Bach's, Mozart's and Liszt's interpretations and a scholarship for Toronto School of Music, Canada. In October 2012 he made a recording for the french tv channel "Arté", giving an interview about Maurice Emmanuel's chamber music, the subject of the documentary signed by Anne Bramard - Blagny: that recorded performance with the interview will be on air in all Europe on September 2013. In August 2013 he won the international piano competition during the XVIII edition of Semana Internacional de Piano de Obidos (Portugal). Actually he studies piano under the guide of Francesco Mariani in Napoli and, since 2011, under the guide of Paul Badura Skoda in Vienna. He gave recitals in Schloss Laudon - Vienna, Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti - Naples, Scone Palace Concert Hall - Scotland, Foyer of San Carlo Theater - Naples, San Lorenzo in Lucina Church - Rome, Institut Françaix de Grenoble, Palazzo Ducale - Capalbio; he received special recognizements by Paul Badura Skoda, Michael Levinas, Aline Zylberajch, Ulrike Sych. In 2012 the historical Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti of Naples, in association with University Federico II of Naples, commissioned him a composition: it will be "Four Japanese Songs op. 4"; he also composed film soundtracks (expecially for mute french cinema like Alfred Manchin's "Le Manoir de la Peur - 1924 and J. C. Bernard's "Naples" - 1929), works for solo intruments, chamber music with voice. Some of his chamber music works (for example "Four Japanese Songs op. 4" and "Kharman op. 5") have been published in 2013 for the collection "punto.org" (Editoriale Scientifica - Naples, Italy) and for University Bocconi's official international editions (Milan - Italy).
- published: 13 Nov 2014
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