Utopie per un Re in Ascolto

by Paolo Gatti

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Utopie per un re in ascolto, is a composition inspired by the novel “Un Re in Ascolto”, written by the italian writer Italo Calvino. Un Re in ascolto, talks about the pardoxical story of a king forced to settle down for ever on his throne because his concern to loose the Kingdom. He is terrified to be dethroned and usurped by some hypothetical traitors, so he just spend his life in the castle. The life outside can be told only through the sounds that he can hear from his window. The story is a metaphor of how the attachment of humans to power can finally become a cage. So the musical ensemble (violin , viola, cello, clarinet) wants to emulate the sounds and the noises that the king listen from his window. In the composition there is the addition to the original story of an invented part. In fact towards the end of the piece there is a chanted dialogue between a male voice and a female voice. Finally the King listens the voice of a woman, he wants to answer to her: he can feel an interest for another human after all this time …

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libretto by Virginia Guidi

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released May 2, 2014
music by Paolo Gatti
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Paolo Gatti : direction
Virginia Guidi : mezzosoprano
Elena D'Alò: cello
Giulia Tamborino: clarinet
Roberta Rosato: viola
William Fornieri: tenor

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