Caracristi, Nilo / Giancarlo Guarino
Modern And Contemporary Works For Horn And Piano
Modern and Contemporary Works for Horn and Piano traces a twentieth- and twenty-first-century itinerary around an instrument of thresholds, capable both of song and of sting. Heidens Sonata, shaped by lucid form and a theme that spans all twelve pitches, opens onto a concrete modernity/ Fontanesis Sonata in F unfolds a Tema con variazioni that shifts light and density, reaching a Rondò with blue-tinged shadows. In DAgostinos Bacchus, conceived for horn and wind band and here recast with piano, the vintage ritual is entwined with the raga Todi and culminates on high C. Hindemiths Sonata, tonal yet non-diatonic, seals the programme in the friction between order and unrest.