CLAUDIA BERTI
MUSIC
ALBUM //
LIGHT AND SHADE
// Genres: Classical, Classical crossover
// Years : 2021
// Label: Acanto
LIGHT AND SHADE | contemporary piano compositions
Piano is the center of “Light and Shade” musical poetry, an album of contemporary piano compositors.
Minimalsm, nordic folk music themes, referenced to Baroque mode evoke contemplative atmospheres, infinite scenarios and twilight metropolitan landscapes submerge the listener in a profound an moving dimension.
Claudia Berti plays Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Julien Marchal, Dustin O’Halloran, Ólafur Arnalds, Andrea Felli
ALBUM //
FROBERGER // A RESTLESS TRAVELLER
// Genre: Ancient music
// Years : 2017
// Label: Acanto
J. J. FROBERGER | A RESTLESS TRAVELLER
Froberger’s harpsichord and organ compositions, which bring forth a clear and unconventional description of the moods of the soul, give us the vivid diary of a restless traveller. The long titles of some of his suites, of which he first makes a four-stroke structure, tell a variety of feelings: from the destructive, poignant nostalgia that rises from Plainte faite a Londres pour passer la Melancholie, to the serene meditation of his own death in Meditation, faite sur ma Mort future, up to the pain of the loss of dear people as in Tombeau fait a Paris sur La Mort De Monsieur Blancheroche (the lutenist Charles Fleury de Blancrocher). In the plots designed with a lute style, which characterise his freer compositions such as toccatas and first movements of the suites, the restlessness of an interior life, which proceeds between melancholic shadows and sudden lights, emerges.
SINGLE //
MORE PALATINO
// Genre: Ancient music
// Years : 2019
// Label: Acanto
MORE PALATINO | Jan Pieterszoons Sweelinck
Virtuoso, dynamic and colorful piece. Sweelinck, an organist from Amsterdam, lived between 1562 and 1621, enjoyed wring a keyboard trascriptionof a very popular “drinking song” sung at the time by students in the taverns of the Dutch capital.
This is the lyrics of the song which praises drinking life to the last drop while you are young.
More palatino bibimus, ne gutta supersit,
Unde suam possit, musca levare sitim;
Sic bibimus, sic vivimus
In Academicis.