Filippo Del Corno: A Coda Di Rondine – Dimitri Ashkenazy

Filippo Del Corno is a Milanese composers whose works have been featured prominently in the programming of seasons such as Lucerne Festival, South Bank Centre, Teatro alla Scala, Venice Biennale and The National Academy of Santa Cecilia, performed by such artists as Luciano Berio, James MacMIllan, Dimitri Ashkenazy and others and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, BMG Ricordi, EMI Classics etc. The works recorded in this Da Vinci Classics album include A Coda di Rondine (six variations on an ancient Italian folk tune, La Girometta), Passages (the imagined map of an imaginary city, in an exploration led by the solo clarinet), Six Memos (a creative reply to the values proposed in 1985 by Italo Calvino in his American Lessons), Not In My Name (a four-movement work inspired by the pacific reaction to violence adopted by relatives of 9/11 victims). This production involves two world-class soloists, i.e. Dimitri Ashkenazy and Emanuele Arciuli, and one of the best Italian chamber orchestras, I Pomeriggi Musicali, conducted by great composer and conductor Carlo Boccadoro.