Maurizio Guernieri | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

With this new album, the Euridice Choir, Bologna achieves a major objective with regard to the divulgation of some choral works by two authors, Ildebrando Pizzetti (Parma 1880 – Rome 1968) and Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Cuneo 1892 – Genoa Nervi 1965), who are at the top of the history of 20th century Italian choral music; unfortunately, most of these masterpieces seldom find a place in concert programs and are, by consequence, little known. These compositions are set on very different stylistic sides, but their musical quality outlines a clear profile of the expressive depth and aesthetic consistency of Italian choral music from the early 1900s. The imposing polyphonic structure of Pizzetti's Requiem and the "neo-Madrigalism" (as defined by Massimo Mila) adopted by Giorgio Federico Ghedini are based respectively on the suggestions of Gregorian chant and on the stylistic modules of the Renaissance compositional heritage, whose recovery constitutes the founding cornerstone of this music.