Daybreak: Contemporary Music For Trombone And Piano – Vincenzo Paratore

The trombone is descended from some of the oldest musical instruments. An instrument with a powerful sound but rich and soft at the same time, like the trumpet it has the same ability to pierce the sound space. Used as a solo instrument by not many of the most famous composers, in chamber music, it is more frequently found in combination with other wind instruments, particularly other members of the brass family; when paired with the piano, the trombone acquires a solo role and shows its full potential in terms of virtuosity, expressiveness and color. This album by Vincenzo Paratore, absolute virtuoso of the instrument, offers a complete vision and a multifaceted perspective on the repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, when the collaboration between soloist and composer has gradually become closer and closer. At the same time this record encapsulates some examples of the major stylistic models and main techniques of modern and contemporary music and can be considered both as an arrival point of the research conducted up to now on and with this instrument and at the same time a point of new departure. to reach even beyond its infinite expressive possibilities, which can in fact be considered almost inexhaustible.