maurizio grandinetti guitarist

>> EQUIvoci 1

Il chitarrista Maurizio Grandinetti presenta un programma di musiche di John Cage e di John Dowland. Si tratta di trascrizioni dal pianoforte (Cage) e dal liuto (Dowland).

Questo progetto musicale nasce dal desiderio di dare a questi autori molteplici piani di lettura. A quello intrinseco nel testo musicale si sovrappone quello della trascrizione per un nuovo strumento, ma soprattuto si instaura un dialogo tra questi due uomini, separati da alcuni secoli, dando loro equa voce.

Le loro composizioni si alternano nell’ascolto. Messi l’uno di fronte all’altro i due compositori escono dalla propria dimensione storica per parlarsi nel presente dell’esecuzione e dell’ascolto. E’ possibile così scoprire che nel 1942 Cage aveva già riletto la tradizione musicale extraeuropea, oppure ritrovare il filo fatto di armonie e contrappunti che unisce l'antico che è in Cage e il moderno in Dowland.

Il programma presenta brani di John Cage prevalentemente degli anni quaranta, spesso per pianoforte preparato, alternati a composizioni contrappuntistiche di John Dowland (fantasie, fantasie cromatiche ecc.) . Sono eseguiti con una chitarra a otto corde spesso preparata con oggetti di uso quotidiano (le mollette che sono in copertina, pezzi di legno e di ferro).
>EQUIvoci 2

>> SOLIDBody

Solo electric guitar, live electronics.
Solid Body is a long-term project by Maurizio Grandinetti on a new repertoire for electric guitar. It consists of commissions for new compositions and the development of a website, where information about electric guitar will be collected. This website will be of support for those composing for electric guitar. These new works will then be played in concert by Maurizio Grandinetti.I asked some composers, to write for electric guitar. I started working with these particular ones because they already have the know-how and know the alchemy of this instrument. Some of them are incredible guitarists and others are extraordinary composers who have already used electric guitar in their music and did not need much of my assistance. They are also versatile and crossover musicians with no awe for electronics, and are very peculiar artistic figures.

Alex Buess            Ata 11
Elliot Sharp           Seek
Junghae Lee          Lunatico
Domenico Caliri     Pit Stop
Marcelo Nisinman Take life As a Slow motion Suicide Process(electric Tango)
Volker Heyn           electric cat

other piece in program
Eric Chasalow       Scuse Me electric guitar and tape
Nick Didkovsky     I Kick My Hand
Fausto Romitelli Trance TV Trance 12’
Periklis Liakakis Scar Guitar

>> Ensemble Phoenix Basel

The Ensemble Phoenix Basel is a group of up to 25 musicians who are especially dedicated to performing contemporary music.
The initiator and conductor of the ensemble, Jürg Henneberger, who is presently also president of the IGNM Basel, has for years been regarded as a specialist for contemporary music. Each of the individual members of the ensemble has accumulated experience in this branch of musical performance during the past years.
During this time, these musicians were engaged as individual performers by institutions such as the IGNM Basel or the Theater Basel, where they performed in various formations, for example under the name "Ensemble der IGNM Basel". As such, the members of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel were involved in productions such as "The Unanswered Question" (Marthaler/Henneberger) or "Der mündliche Verrat" from Mauricio Kagel, etc. However, at this point in time an actual ensemble per se did not exist.
In time, the need of forming a specialized ensemble for contemporary music became evident, not only to meet the demands of the Basler Theater. The city of Basel, which with its large number of resident composers is regarded as an important center for contemporary music in and outside of Switzerland, is ideally suited to house an ensemble of this kind.
In addition, an independent, self-managed ensemble significantly eases the organizational burden of concert promoters such as the IGNM and the Basler Theater, and can insure the efficiency which comes from working with a permanent team, the members being tuned-in to each other.
In 1998 Jürg Henneberger and a handful of nucleus members took the initiative and founded the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, which gave its initial concert on the "Kleine Bühne" of the Basler Theater on December 12, 1998. Works from B. A. Zimmermann, Harrison Birtwistle and Christoph Delz were on the program. The concert was recorded live by Swiss Radio DRS II and received wide acclaim by the press.
The Ensemble Phoenix Basel will continue to be active, performing ensemble concerts of the IGNM Basel, as well as realizing projects requiring chamber music ensembles at the Basler Theater, and organizing its own concerts.
The purpose of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel is to perform concerts in its home town, the rest of Switzerland, and also to be present in the most important contemporary music festivals outside of the country. Its primary objective is to play an integral role in the development of contemporary music through direct co-operation with not only renowned, but also young composers of our times, in order to perform their works and make them accessible to a broader public.

Link:
>> http://www.ensemble-phoenix.ch/

>> Matteis

There are moments when we have the feeling we`re somehow in touch with eternity, moving beyond the realms of time and space.
We`re circling around moments like these in our musical-theatrical journey A Clear View of Heaven. As a starting point we have Michelangelo`s frescoes – until recently covered under a patina – in the Sistine Chapel, as well as the music of the Italian Baroque composer Nicola Matteis.
Sounds and images from the past mix with those of today: a restaurator explains how Michelangelo`s colours are to be laid bare. The stories which he reads from the images gradually begin to merge with his own – and Matteis’ music mutates unexpectedly into popsong... Baroque sensuality and a multimedial event of our time are mixed into one.
And in the process, visions begin to emerge... Where the past, present and future jostle together towards one whole, we arrive with a feeling of clarity, indeed: A Clear View of Heaven.

A Clear View of Heaven Website

>> Guitarp duo - arpa e chitarra

Arpa e voce: Consuelo Giulianelli
Chitarra: Maurizio Grandinetti

L’arpista e cantante Consuelo Giulianelli e il chitarrista Maurizio Grandinetti sanno come rivolgersi al pubblico con i loro strumenti. La loro musica è incontro, scambio e comunicazione viva. Insieme invitano l’ascoltatore a percorrere un viaggio musicale che lo rapisce verso i campi del sud. Entrambi i musicisti portano in valigia sia brani di compositori famosi italiani e brasiliani quali Heitor Villa-Lobos o Nino Rota sia canti popolari festosi e melanconici. In questi brani Consuelo Giulianelli e Maurizio Grandinetti fanno risaltare in pieno la loro voglia di vivere e di suonare, il piacere di suonare, di unirsi ancora una volta sul palco.

Nino Rota                                Due valzer sul nome di Bach
(1911-1979)                              per chitarra e arpa

Tradizionali italiane               Italienische Volkslieder
Bearb. Maurizio Grandinetti       In su monte Limbara (Sardinien)
                                              A ninna nanna (Kalabrien)
                                              Lu suli si nni và (Sizilien)
                                                per voce, arpa e chitarra

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Melodie sefardite
(1895-1968)                              Ven y verras
                                               Una noche
                                                 per voce e arpa

                                               Fantasia
                                                per chitarra e arpa
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Ernesto Nazareth                    Apanhei-te, cavaquinho
                                             per chitarra e arpa

Egberto Gismonti                  Agua y vino
                                               Infancia
                                                              per chitarra e arpa

Heitor Villa Lobos                  Preludio n. 3
(1887-1959)                          per chitarra
                                              Brasilianische Volkslieder
                                              Papae currumiassu
                                              Adeus Ema
                                              Caboca de Caxangà
                                              Estrella é lua nova
                                                              per voce, arpa e chitarra

Paulo Bellinati                      Jongo
                                                             per arpa e chitarra

>> Repertory:

Solo: (selection)

Luciano Berio:          Sequenza XI
                               Brin (trascr. M.G.)
                               Wasserklavier (trascr. M.G.)
                               Erdenklavier (trascr. M.G.)

Dusan Bogdanovich   Sonata 1
                                Sonata 2
                                Jazz Sonata

Alex Buess               Ata 11 (first performance)

John Cage                In a Landscape (trascr. M.G.)
                               Totem ancestor        "
                               A Room         "
                               Primitive           "
                               Music for Marcel Duchamp    "
                               A dream          "
                             Summer (preservation)      "
                               And The Earth Shall Bear Again      "

Domenico Caliri        Pit stop (first performance)

Eliot Carter:              Changes

Carlos Chavez          Three Pieces

Nuccio D’Angelo       Due Canzoni Lidie

Stephen Dodgson      Partita

Franco Donatoni        Algo

Alberto Ginastera       Sonata

Felix Ibarrondo           Cristal y Piedra

Thomas Kessler         Guitar Control

Ernst Krenek            Suite

Tristan Murail           Tellur
                                 Vampyr

Maurice Ohana          Tiento

Helmuth Oehring         Foxfire 1

Goffredo Petrassi       Suoni notturni
                                Nunc

Walter Prati               Il giardino di Teodora (first performance)

Gwyn Pritchard         Sonata for Guitar (first performance)

Roger Reynolds        The Behavior of the Mirror

Giacinto Scelsi          Ko-tha

Elliott Sharp              Seek (first performance)

Toru Takemitsu          In the woods
                                Folios
                                Equinox
                               All in a twilight

John Zorn                 The Book of Heads

William Walton         Five Bagatelles

Lois V. Vierk           Go guitars

Maurizio Grandinetti ha suonato larga parte del repertorio ottocentesco (con particolare attenzione per le opere di Fernando Sor e Mauro Giuliani) con una chitarra Lacote del 1829 di sua proprietà.
Negli anni di studio alla Schola Cantrum Basiliensis Maurizio Grandinetti ha suonato opere per chitarra barocca di M. Bartolotti, Francisco Guerau, Gaspar Sanz e Robert De Visée.

Francesco da Milano Fantasie e Ricercari

John Dowland:          Fancy P.73
                               Fantasia P.1
                               Fancy P.6
                               John Langton’s Pavan
                               Farewell
                               A dream
                               Forlon Hope

Luis Milan:               Tientos e Fantasie

Giovanni Zamboni Romano Sonate

J. S. Bach opere per liuto, violino e violoncello

S.L. Weiss opere per liuto

con ensemble:

Louis Andriessen      Hout

Richard Barret          Another Heavenly Day

Pierre Boulez           Marteau sans Maitre
                            Pli selon Pli

Alex Buess           Phylum (first performance)

John Cage               Music for
                            Song Book

Dror Feiler               Restitutio in pristinum

Fred Frith               The As Unusual Dance

Vinko Globokar        La Prison (first performance)

Sam Hayden           Presence

Matthias Heep rappresentazioni I e II (first performance)

Wolfgang Heiniger    In Four (first performance)

Tim Hodgkinson       Repulsion (first performance)

Klaus Huber            Plainte – lieber spaltet mein Herz...II

Rudolph Kelterborn   Ensemble-Buch IV (first performance)

Wolfgang Mitterer "Crushrooms" opera (first performance)

Andrea Molino Those who speak in a faint voice

Giorgio Netti Note all'Empedocle

Olga Neuwirth         Homage à Klaus Nomi
                            Lost Highway

Helmuth Oehring      Cayabyab

Frederick Rzewcki    Coming Together

Rebecca Saunders   dichroic seventheen

Arnold Schoenberg     Serenade op. 24

Salvatore Sciarrino      Esplorazione del Bianco

Erkki-Sven Tüür         Architectonics V

Nadir Vassena "leib. wache" - opera (first performance)

Lois V. Vierck Red Shift

Daniel Weissberg A trois

Julia Wolfe Lick

Luigi Boccherini Quintetti

con orchestra:

Ennio Morricone        Terzo Concerto per chitarra, marimba e Orchestra

Walter Prati               Il Tempo che Scorre (first performance)

Toru Takemitsu          To the edge of Dream

Olga Neuwirth           Photophorus

Mauro Giuliani           Concerto op. 30

>> EQUIvoci 1

Musik von John Cage und John Dowland
Der Gitarrist Maurizio Grandinetti schlägt Ihnen ein Konzertprogramm mit Musik von John Cage und John Dowland vor. Nebst der Musik wird der Hörer zudem mit Texten der beiden Komponisten konfrontiert; Cage und Dowland holen auch ein beachtliches ? in Worten hinterlassen.
Das Project erwuchs aus dem Wunsch den beiden Künstlern auf verschidenen Ebenen gerecht zu werden. Auf der Text-Ebene dialogisieren die beiden so weit entfernten über die Jahrhunderte hinweg, und treffen sich in der Gitarre als Gemeinsamem, neutralem Punkt.
Durch die alternierende Anlage der Stücke im Konzert verliert die rein historische Dimension jegliche Bedeutung.
Als Instrument für meine Transkriptionen wählte ich eine acht saitige Gitarre, wobei ich diese mit verschiedenen Hilfsmitteln prepariere. Somit suche ich die klanglichen Grenzen dieses Instrumentes auszuweiten um dem Instrumentarium nahe zu kommen.

>> EQUIvoci 2

Das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL ist eine Gruppe von bis zu 25 Musikerinnen und Musikern, die sich gezielt für zeitgenössische Musik einsetzen. Jürg Henneberger, der Gründer und Dirigent des Ensembles, gilt seit längerem als Spezialist für zeitgenössische Musik. Auch alle Mitglieder haben eine langjährige Erfahrung in dieser Sparte vorzuweisen und waren u.a. an Produktionen am Theater Basel wie "The Unanswered Question" (Marthaler/Henneberger) und "Der mündliche Verrat" von Mauricio Kagel beteiligt. Das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL hat sich seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1998 innerhalb kürzester Zeit mit zahlreichen Eigenproduktionen in der Schweiz profiliert und hervoragende Rezensionen erhalten.
Das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL gastiert in verschiedenen zeitgenössischen Musik- und Tanztheater-Produktionen am Theater Basel (1999 "Punch and Judy" von Harrison Birtwistle, 2000 "Hamlet-to sleep/no more" von Joachim Schlömer mit Musik von Galina Ustwolskaja, 2001 "idiot" von Johannes Harneit, 2002 "Mare Nostrum" von M. Kagel, weitere Produktionen sind geplant).
2001 gab das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL sein Debut beim "lucerne festival" und realisierte mehrere Konzerte im Rahmen des "Europäischen Musikmonats 2001" in Basel.
Das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL spielt regelmässig Ensemble-Konzerte der IGNM Basel und ist seit 2002 "ensemble-in-residence" mit eigenem Proberaum und einer eigenen Konzertreihe im "Gare du Nord", Bahnhof für Neue Musik in Basel. Die Konzerte werden ermöglicht dank der finanziellen Unterstützung der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft.
Neben der Mitwirkung an Festivals für zeitgenössische Musik im In- und Ausland wird immer auch die Realisation von eigenen Konzerten im Zentrum des Interesses stehen. Hier wie dort sucht das ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL die Zusammenarbeit und Auseinandersetzung mit renommierten, aber auch jungen, noch wenig bekannten Komponistinnen und Komponisten unserer Zeit auf regionaler und internationaler Ebene. Zahlreiche Uraufführungen sowie eine Vorliebe für experimentell-gattungsübergreifende Werke prägen das Programm.

Link:
>> http://www.ensemble-phoenix.ch/