Album “Clarinet”
Divertimento #8 “Thamon” for Clarinet Quartet
“Sequenza #1″ for Solo Clarinet
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- “Something I have been dying to share with you all week…..such a virtuoso musical performance and joyful uplifting music I just couldn’t resist it.”
Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6)
- “Luca has a tone and techniques that give him an exeptional range, from the deep and reflective (Divertimento #7) to the brave and experimental (Divertimento #9). Masterful performance!”
(Musician Magazine)
- “Compliments, you are great! Clarinet is a wonderful CD.”
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinettist, ECM)
- “I love the new reconrding VERY much!!!”
Barry O’Sullivan (CRN Network Australia)
- “Great stuff!!! Come on-air to present it.”
Martin Perlich (KCSN Classical Radio, USA)
- “This solo recordings by Luca Luciano are mainly a demonstration of his skills as a clarinettist. Remarkable skills either for the technique or for the quality of the interpretations.”
(All About Jazz)
Generated by an on-going academic research on extended techniques for the contemporary repertoire and new music for clarinet solo, “Clarinet” is and independent production by Luca Luciano and Gianni Varone (also responsible for the distribution and selling of the Digidesign equipments in Italy). The album has been available to the public in limited edition only and it is now available exclusively through digital distribution/DOWNLOAD.
The main “theme” of this project is the composer Igor Stravinsky and in particular “The Rite of Spring” which has inspired Luciano so much. As a homage to the great Russian composer, some short quotations are present from his music and also Mahler’s (second symphony), Berio’s Sequenza and Ravel’s in the two Sequenze, in Divertimento #7, Divertimento #10 and “Naima”.
The two Sequenze for Clarinet Solo are the core of the album and have been inspired by the famous line by Gustav Mahler’s “A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything”. Luciano, in this remarkable journey of written and improvised music, tries to embrace all styles of music he loves in an imaginative tour around the world from classical European music to Afro-American or folkloristic music of the South of Italy, from contemporary classical music with chromatic and angular-shaped melodies to lyric and almost operatic atmospheres, from polytonality to blues and swing. In fact Luciano firmly believes in the great potentiality of the clarinet and its expressivity and tries to stretch it to the limit including modulating the tone when necessary (as in the two Sequenze) to make it sound like a “Chalumeau” on the “tarantella” parts or more like an American clarinetist of the 30s and 40s.
Luciano’s sound has been built on a vintage “Bb” Buffet clarinet which bears more keys and rings (20 keys and 7 rings) than the “regular” French clarinet and goes a semitone lower as well. This explains its darker tone, versatility and more hybrid tone, almost like a Basset Clarinet, that fits so much Luca’s style. Yet the extra keys and extension give him the chance to create sound effects otherwise almost impossible to generate (e.g. Divertimento #4 and Divertimento #9).
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