Isolation

Ex Novo Ensemble

Daniele Ruggieri flute
Davide Teodoro clarinet
Carlo Lazari violin
Annamaria Pellegrino violino
Paola Carraro viola
Carlo Teodoro cello
Aldo Orvieto piano

The program looks into different kinds of Isolation, in the always winding and complex interaction between an artist and his time. We can see Hindemith’s and Stravinskij’s works as the result of the banishment or auto seclusion imposed by the dictatorships in their times, while Scelsi’s and Pärt’s works ask for a listening based on the intimate nature of sounds, opposing to the prevailing aesthetic of the second half of the XXth century. The Premieres by Firsova and Ambrosini were coinceved in the completely new form of Isolation we have experienced in the last three years due to the pandemics.