Totaro: Piano & Percussion Works – Trio Diaghilev

Presenting Mario Totaro’s music to the general public is not simple, contemporary without being extreme, usable without ever giving in to banality, wonderful as only great music can be. Hence, approaching these works, after the initial wonder of finding oneself in front of a large-scale title that aims directly at creating one’s own voice in a vast sea where it is increasingly difficult to be heard, becomes a continuous game of discovery, between quotations from the past and music of poignant beauty that are reflected as in a valley of large and wonderful mirrors, between personal re-elaborations of what have been the stylistic features of Western music and the desire to reinvent them in an original way to give back to the public that joy of listening that goes beyond everything. A record of essential beauty, made by a composer, Mario Totaro, and by a group of musicians, the Trio Diaghilev, able to perfectly convey the sense of happiness and dedication of making music, so evident in the compositional process that led to these works, what is present in the executive aspect.