Music & Sound Wizard

The music of Goffredo Petrassi may not be widely recognized in the UK ⁢today, yet he stands as one of the most important and impactful Italian composers from the mid-20th century. ‌Born⁢ in 1904,just⁢ a few months after Luigi ⁤Dallapiccola,Petrassi initially embraced a neoclassical style in his early compositions. However, following 1945, he began to ...

‘Chromaticism is a rare and exotic bloom in Western tune,” writes Exaudi’s director James Weeks in his wonderfully complete essay in his crew’s disc of gradual 16th-century choral works. “It flowers handiest when conditions allow: when a harmonic conception exists that might perhaps perhaps accommodate it, and extra importantly when composers absorb the desire to ...