Works

Alessandro Solbiati
Interludi (I - VII)
for Piano

In 2000 I decided to dedicate a series of short piano pieces to my wife, the pianist Emanuela Piemonti, composed almost casually as draft pages on which to experiment images, gestures and musical situations. Our friend Roberto Prosseda heard of this project and began to play the passages already in existence. Little by little a tacit and sympathetic understanding grew up between us and the series of Interludi, which should in the end have consisted of sixteen pieces, continued to increase by one number on the occasion of each new performance by Roberto Prosseda. Each short piece is based on a sole pianistic image and situation of extreme clarity. For example, the seventh, performed for the first time at Sofia, is simply a chorale which starts as near as possible from the centre of the keyboard and which increases in extension and dynamics, foreshadowing the progressive approach of a procession.
(Alessandro Solbiati)

In Interludi (composed between 2000 and 2003) Solbiati develops the concept of musical "figure"; that is, he elaborates in each passage a design, or a colour, or a particularly clear and definite rhythmic-melodic pattern, achieving fascinating expressive results in an aphoristic structure of immediate communicative effectiveness. The seventh of the Interludes in programme was composed in January 2003 and given its first performance at Sofia, Bulgaria.
(Roberto Prosseda)