Concerts, lectures, screenings and panel discussions: from 5 to 29 November Risonanze erranti reinforces the indissoluble bond between Venice and Luigi Nono.
As Venice gathers to celebrate modern composer Luigi Nono, Rome hosts Politikè, whose programmes includes a night, December 10, dedicated to Nono and his acousmatic music. A way for two further cultural institutions, after the successful latest Biennale Musica, to produce beautiful festivals of creative contemporary music. It is apparent that this specific cultural sector is alive and well, and growing, too. The one in Venice, Festival Luigi Nono 2024, is dubbed Risonanze erranti, literally ‘errant resonance’, a phrase that echoes one of the latest compositions by Nono, the Liederzyklus of 1986. It is the happy ending of what essayist Massimo Mila defined as Nono’s fourth period. The first would have been Nono’s apprenticeship in instrumental music in the 1950s, the second what Mila calls “the poetry of love, youth, happiness” and that includes Nono’s work on poetry by García Lorca, Pavese, Ungaretti, Neruda, Machado, the third began with Il canto sospeso of 1956 and is Nono’s refusal of technical hegemony and his openness to poetry, history, and political commitment. The latter phase is marked by two essential moments: the discovery of electronics and technological potential and the adoption of sound as essential element of creative research.
The festival’s programme is promising: concerts, screenings, lectures, round tables. We are looking forward to the opening night, November 7, with the performance of Risonanze erranti. Liederzyklus a Massimo Cacciari. Cacciari, an author and philosopher, worked extensively with Luigi Nono and will speak at the event. On November 21, at Fondazione Prada, the acousmatic version of A floresta è jovem e cheja de vida will be performed. According to Enzo Restagno, this is the first of Nono’s works where the technological and acoustic treatment of the music is parallel to the composer’s ideological commitment. A concert we won’t want to miss is that of November 29, at the Venice Music Conservatory: pianist Jan Michiels will play ..sofferte onde serene…, which is the piece that opened Nono’s latest period as a composer and his cooperation with Maurizio Pollini.
A presentation of the topics and appointments of a season dedicated to an allaround intellectual. Using music, Luigi Nono was a...
First shown in Cologne, Germany, in 1986, this Lieder collections would have been developed parallel to post/prae ludi, ideally...
Presentation of a book by Luigi Finarelli that includes original notes and sketches and original copy by Italo Calvino and Mass...
A documentary by Manuela Pellarin previews last September at the Venice Film Festival. Interviews to Luigi Nono’s friends and...
A round table on the occasion of the donation of the Laboratorio Musica collection to Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono held by Ma...
The famous Minguet Quartett celebrate Luigi Nono’s hundredth birthday with a performance of Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima. Ins...
A composition by Luigi Nono that premiered at Fenice Theatre in Venice on September 7, 1966, for the 29th Venice Music Biennale...
A night dedicated to Nono’s composition for ‘magnetic tape solo’, a cornerstone of his oeuvre and and an investigation in...
A meeting with Richard Erkens, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, and Noemi Schneider and a conference on politics in Luigi Nono’s music ...
A piano recital by Jan Michiels to homage pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini, who died last March, in cooperation with the ...
