Reviews

“A wonderful sense of drama and energetic colour structures…”

Jonathan Harvey

Alúna review

[...] “Both Luca Francesconi’s Lips, Eyes…Bang and Lamberto Coccioli’s Alúna explored the combination of electronic and acoustic sound. Both succeeded in creating highly entertaining pieces of real music-theatre.[...]

Coccioli’s Alúna, receiving its premiere, also spotlit a formidable soloist – Rivka Golani. But here the musical opportunities were more evenly distributed. Inspired by an Amerindian creation myth, it’s a lyrical and brightly-coloured single- movement viola concerto.

From a formidable opening solo – with magical electronic interjections – it moved through exuberant instrumental dialogue and moments of chamber-music intimacy to a wonderfully effective final flourish.

Brass and woodwind played with particular refinement, and viola player ...

Magma reviews

Excerpts from published reviews of the opera

“Coccioli succeeding even in surprising us, thanks particularly to a skilful exploitation of electronic techniques. …Themes a little ambitious certainly, in the confines of a lyrical work, but which Coccioli seizes the essence of, with a certain poetry and beautiful suggestive moments.”
Nicola Gandolfi, Opera International, June 1998

“If there is one strength in particular that Magma can claim, it is the (one might almost say ‘Berianesque’) capacity of the composer to establish his own style, whatever the historical and ‘geographic’ diversity of the sonic means at his disposal. And a highly theatrical characteristic of this ...