Kind of Satie: New Music around Erik Satie Andrea Pandolfo, Paolo Pandolfo & Michelangelo Rinaldi

• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 1 La mosca cieca (after E. Satie's Sports et divertissements: VI. Colin-maillard) 05:28
• 2 Il corale (after E. Satie's Sports et divertissements: I. Choral inappétissant) 06:59
• Michelangelo Rinaldi:
• 3 Morbidamente rosacrociano (after E. Satie's Sonnerie de la Rose+Croix) 01:51
• Paolo Pandolfo:
• 4 Brothers 03:58
• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 5 Albertone sui baffi di Satie 02:30
• Paolo Pandolfo:
• 6 3 Sonneries de la Rose+Croix (arr. A. Pandolfo, P. Pandolfo and M. Rinaldi for flugelhorn, viola da gamba and accordion) 03:31
• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 7 Il flirt (after E. Satie's Sports et divertissements: XIX. Le Flirt) 04:37
• Paolo Pandolfo:
• 8 Respiro 01:18
• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 9 Impassibile infiammato 08:15
• Michelangelo Rinaldi:
• 10 Sogno coniugale 01:40
• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 11 La caccia (after E. Satie's Sports et divertissements: III. La Chasse) 04:12
• Paolo Pandolfo, Michelangelo Rinaldi:
• 12 La maritata (after E. Satie's Sports et divertissements: V. Le réveil de la Mariée) 02:13
• Michelangelo Rinaldi:
• 13 Preghiera rosacrociana (after E. Satie's Sonnerie de la Rose+Croix) 02:12
• 14 Valzer rosacrociano (after E. Satie's Sonnerie de la Rose+Croix) 03:04
• Andrea Pandolfo:
• 15 Commiato 01:01
• Total Runtime 52:49

Info for Kind of Satie: New Music around Erik Satie

Every once in a while Paolo Pandolfo likes to slip away from the world of Baroque-era manuscripts brimming with virtuoso compositions for the viola da gamba in order to create a free-form improvisatory programme surrounded by like-minded musical spirits: and so, away from stylistic rules and regulations, Kind of Satie has come into being for Glossa.

Subtitled “new music around Erik Satie”, Pandolfo embarks on a journey around the eccentricity-laden life of that “transcendent idealist”, in the company of his brother Andrea, and with Michelangelo Rinaldi. Andrea Pandolfo, who has worked with Paolo on the Travel notes programme, is a trumpet and flugelhorn player as well as a composer (in world music, contemporary, folk, jazz and early music), whilst the multi-instrumentalist Rinaldi acquits himself admirably on this new recording in playing piano, accordion and toy piano. Paolo Pandolfo is to be heard on both his usual and on an electro- acoustic viola da gamba.

Satie’s musical scores frequently bore marking designed solely for performers, but in some of the pieces included in Kind of Satie these are openly presented for listeners by the Pandolfo brothers. The music for the Trois Sonneries de la Rose+Croix and Sports et Divertissements provide the trio with starting points for their own modern-day musical compositions, as does Baroque music also (Marin Marais). The draughtswoman Tinka Volaric provides a series of illustrations created specifically in the context of this innovative project.

Andrea Pandolfo, trumpet, flugelhorn, voice
Paolo Pandolfo, violas da gamba, voice
Michelangelo Rinaldi, pianos, accordion

Paolo Pandolfo
Widely admired as a virtuoso exponent of the viola da gamba through his concert performances and recordings of key composers from Germany, France, Spain, England and his native Italy, Paolo Pandolfo has in recent years been developing the instincts and skills for improvising and composing. He began his research in the field of renaissance and baroque musical idioms around 1979 along with violinist Enrico Gatti and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini. Studies with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland were followed by membership of Savall’s Hespèrion XX between 1982 and 1990. A highly successful recording of the CPE Bach Sonatas for viola da gamba (on Tactus) in 1990 saw Pandolfo nominated as Professor of viola da gamba at his alma mater, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he has been concentrating his teaching activities ever since.

Since 1997 all of Paolo Pandolfo’s recordings have appeared on Glossa. The odyssey commenced with the first complete recording of Antoine Forqueray’s Pièces de Viole, followed by discs devoted to the music of Tobias Hume, Marin Marais (Le Labyrinthe et autres histoires was devoted to character music whilst Grand Ballet focused on Marais’ gestures and dance music) and Sainte-Colombe. Pandolfo has regularly ventured beyond the realms of Renaissance and Baroque notated music for his instrument; he achieved a notable success with his own transcription of the six Bach Solo Suites and recorded an unaccompanied recital, A Solo. Travel Notes and Improvisando have further demonstrated Pandolfo’s command of the possibilities of the viola da gamba as a composer himself.

His performing activities have taken him all over the world, playing with artists such as Emma Kirkby, Rolf Lislevand, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Mitzi Meyerson, José Miguel Moreno and many others. He has been described as the Yo Yo Ma of the viol. Since 1992 he has been directing Labyrinto, a group of four or five viola da gambas, which is dedicated to the huge consort music repertoire.

Paolo Pandolfo builds bridges between the past and the present, bringing spontaneous and immediate life in the performance of baroque and renaissance music using medias such as improvisation, transcriptions and composition of modern pieces, being convinced that the patrimony of ancient music can be a powerful inspiration for the future of the western musical tradition.

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