Edizioni Curci announces collaboration with Giacomo Platini
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Edizioni Curci has begun a new collaboration with Piedmontese composer Giacomo Platini, one of the most acclaimed voices on the international contemporary music scene. The first title published is "Come tira l’aria" for violin and six percussionists, commissioned by the Lugano Percussion Ensemble, which recorded the piece for the Stradivarius label. The score will be available from January 2026.
Upcoming publications include here is the deepest secret nobody knows (La poetica dei metalli) for six percussionists, part of Elements, a vast project exploring sound through percussion.
“The title ‘Come tira l'aria’ (How the wind blows)” - explains the composer - "comes from the fact that, after a period dedicated to composing pieces with direct references to subjects, themes, and materials outside of music, I needed freedom to be able to create new music. So, I decided to let my musical ideas flow freely, without constraints, and to follow the creative flow freely, as it emerged from my poetic universe. Air as a symbol of something that comes to us without warning, unpredictably. Air as a symbolic element of flowing without constraint, towards an apparently undefined goal. Air as an element to which one can surrender without resistance, to let oneself be carried away. * Giacomo Platini
Come tira l'aria is divided into three large sections without interruption, with a cadenza for the violin between the second and third sections. The violin has a solo and concertante role, while the percussion is sometimes in dialogue with the soloist, sometimes amplifying and resonating with its gestures. The musical material is based on the principle of repetition, applied at different levels: rhythmic and melodic cells, interludes, and phrases return, but always with a greater or lesser degree of variation, in an expressive and evocative musical context. In the finale, after the violin cadenza, percussion and violin unite in an almost choral discourse, calm and intimate, a mantra with an almost hypnotic pace that gradually leads to the end of the piece. *
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