Mario Totaro: Chamber Works

The aesthetics of Mario Totaro’s oeuvre subsumes the great Western musical tradition, appropriating and reshaping it for personal expressive purposes. His music finds a balance between conceptual complexity and immediacy. His works have been appreciated by critics for their “surprising musicality”, which “amazes for its inventiveness, originality and spontaneity”. Listeners are caught by the effortless and free flow of his music: the refined techniques he employs efface themselves in order to promote an unconstrained listening experience. This Da Vinci Classics album includes a song cycle on lyrics by Fernando Pessoa, but also works inspired by such diverse elements as prehistoric cave paintings, E. A. Poe’s poems, Sanskrit words and suggestions from jazz, progressive rock, and folksong.