Incroci Musicali – Quintetto Anemos

Crossing the numerous musical lines that separate the contemporary world from that of the past and even more than a distant past is not an easy thing and it is not to be done lightly. Even more so if you decide to cross these lines with different cultural and historical experiences such as Italian and Hungarian music. The Anemos Quintet, however, fully succeeds in achieving this goal by making a highly felt disc in which a continuous counterbalance is placed between different authors who arrive in an unprecedented way to dialogue with each other. The Pupazzetti di Casella then parade, in an illuminating version by Filippo Mazzoli for wind quintet, together with Denes Agay’s Five Easy Dances. Compositions of rarefied beauty such as Salvatore Di Stefano’s Ancient Secret of Five and Alessio Elia’s Nocturnal Awakened gather around Ferenc Farkas’s “smaller” Ancient Hungarian dances, to finally arrive at Marco Lombardi’s indomitable Perpetuum Immobile. Structurally distant works that find their unique center precisely in the masterful execution of the Anemos Quintet, which with this record marks the way to explore a path that is still not very popular and at the same time has a unique charm.