Luca Natali Stradivari: Chamber Works Luca Fanfon, Luca Natali Stradivari, iQuartetto Bazzini

• Luca Natali Stradivari (b. 1993): Il re è morto, relitto (Version for Violin & Piano):
• 1Stradivari: Il re è morto, relitto (Version for Violin & Piano): I. Le grida della terra folle08:56
• 2Stradivari: Il re è morto, relitto (Version for Violin & Piano): II. Il pigro inferno07:38
• 3Stradivari: Il re è morto, relitto (Version for Violin & Piano): III. stelle cadute nei ricordi06:46
• Luca Natali Stradivari:
• 4Stradivari: Umbra me vocat07:18
• 5Stradivari: Paciugo8413:32
• 6Stradivari: Sans ell ne puis09:14
• 7Stradivari: Racconto d'oltremare10:17
• Total Runtime01:03:41

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Luca N. Stradivari (1993) is a composer and pianist of his own music. After he graduated at the University of Nottingham, he started to hold composition seminars and concerts in China since 2018. He writes: “The first part of this release is marked by the performance of The King is Dead – shipwreck for violin and piano. A reworking case for duet – Luca N. Stradivari on the piano and Luca Fanfoni on the violin – of the concert for wind orchestra and violin solo based on the First World War, performed in 2012 in Salò on lake Garda for its annual music festival. Seven years later, maestro Fanfoni and I began a long process of studying my work in order to understand its complex rhythms and sonorities, as well as its symbols and deep historical meaning. The movement's titles (Mad Earth's screams, Lazy Hell, Stars shot into memories) were taken from some poems of mine in order to better emphasize what the music is describing within a particular section…Paciugo84 is a stream of consciousness running through different frames: absurd imagines, erotic fantasies, impossible loves, all orbiting around the initial thematic idea, those four melancholic notes opening and closing the score turning it into a true madhouse of butter-files.* To elevate the power of this piece I inserted in the recording a soundscape of city noises and turn them into active part of the composition since when I was creating this piece I was reading Sartre's writings, whose diaries were inspired by what he could see from his window. The music changes and reacts depending also on external noises such as the departing car at the end of the composition becoming a whole with the melancholic ending.”

Luca Natali Stradivari, piano
Luca Fanfoni, violin
Quartetto Bazzini

Luca Natali Stradivari
is an Italian poet, enfant prodige of classical music, instrumentalist and composer, currently based between UK and Italy.

Luca is the last descendent of the famous Cremonese violin-maker Antonio Stradivari, that increased the renown of violin art of Cremona and has been recognized by UNESCO.

Since he was thirteen years old he learnt to play the violin under the guidance of Giuseppe Rozzi – teacher of the international school of violin-making Antonio Stradivari in Cremona – and in 2012 he studied Music Composition with Fausto Caporali, teacher at Torino’s Conservatory. After completing his high school studies in Cremona he moved to UK where he could totally dedicate himself to music and earned a BA in Music from University of Nottingham.

His composition were played by the orchestras of Salò, Cremona and Singapore and he is the award winner of several prize: his poem The Great Dance was finalist at the international competition Ciro Coppola in Ischia (2011), he won twice the Honourable Mention at the international competition Ottorino Respighi, arranged by the Chamber Orchestra of New York his first quintet Orlando Furioso (2012) and his third quintet Aquila d’oro (2014). He also arrived finalist at the international competition 100 Cellos in Milan (2014) where he has seen one of his composition played, conducted by Giovanni Sollima, at the Triennale of Milan.

In Piran, Slovenija, in occasion of the opening of the exhibition Sine Linea, part of B#Side War Festival’s program (2015-2016 edition) he performed with the piano his composition Il Re è Morto, based on the theme of the Great World War.

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