for string quartet.

year: 2020

duration: 7'30'' ca.

premiered by Quartetto Prometeo, 31 Jul. 2020, Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy)

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program notes: 

This composition comes from an image aroused by the words of Andrea Zanzotto's poem “Polvere” from Dietro il paesaggio.

In particular, these are the verses that evoked the image:

Oltre il vento le fanciulle pensano / Beyond the wind the girls think

alla pioggia che non fu mai, / to the rain that never was,

pesa negli occhi delle fanciulle / weighs in the eyes of the girls

il riverbero delle candele. / the reverb of candles.

Throughout the composition there is a melody, which emerges only in some points where it becomes truly perceptible; for the rest of the piece the melody acts as base material, but it is difficult to listen it, as if it were hidden behind a blanket or perhaps behind the faint soft glow of candles.

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