Il racconto delle nuvole

seven musical scenes for four instruments | 1995 | Toujours Ensemble commission

Excerpt: Nuvole chiare

Il racconto delle nuvole was written for Nicola Campogrande and the Toujours Ensemble. The original version featured a narrator, and included three artistic layers – the narrated text by the writer and painter Marco Vacchetti, the music, and a series of seven paintings by Vacchetti himself relating to the texts, to be shown in turn during the various sections of the performance.

Subsequently I found the music to work very well on its own as a suite of seven instrumental scenes, and as such it is presented here.

flute (doubling alto flute)
clarinet (doubling bass clarinet)
guitar
cello

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1. Nuvole scure
2. Seleuca
3. Atamante
4. Pedro & Cristoforo
5. Segnali di fumo
6. Eolo
7. Nuvole chiare

First performance
Paola Roman, narrator and the Toujours Ensemble | 1995 | Turin