femfestival hub

–  2021 / 2022 Edition

The female composers who submitted their pieces to the femfestival hub:


• Akari Komura • Ana Geoghegan  • Annie Fontana  • Bracha Bdil

• Carlotta Ferrari  • Cécile Buchet  • Chiayu Hsu  • Corinne Latteur

• Feona Lee Jones  • Francesca Gambelli  • Georgia Kalodiki 

• Ingrid Stölzel  •  Kaiyi Kao  •  Katrina Penman

• Laila Arafah  • Larisa Shibert  • Leyla Remzi  • Marina Karagianni  

• Marisol Gentile • Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres • Mozhgan Chahian  

• Noà Zanon  • Pamela Soria  • Sara Maeng  • Simona Iuoro  • Toh Yan Ee  

• Valeria Romero • Yael Ofer  • Yue Song  • Zoe Felton
femfestival 2023
18 December 2023

Swimming Through / Marina Karagianni
4.3 (14)

''Swimming Through'' is a vocalise based on a simple, cyclic piano part that serves as the scaffolding over which the voice, cello, violin and saxophone develop their quasi-improvised parts. The piece relates to the experiences of going through life changes, processing trauma or having glipmpses…
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femfestival 2023
16 December 2023

Partícula de una pandemia / Frida Vasquez de la Sota
4.5 (48)

Clarinet quintet inspired by the melancholy experienced in confinement during the covid-19 pandemic, recorded during that time in a home studio. Layers and sound textures of clarinets that transmit pure emotions, a static state of the soul, an uncertain landscape, an intimate moment with raw…
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femfestival 2023
16 December 2023

Christus factus est / Carlotta Ferrari
4.1 (8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekAloIBhLEYChristus factus est is a bilingual motet in Latin and English, written for the Holy Week. English is intended like a "parola scenica", that is, according to Maria Callas, the moment of the action in which words have a dramatic meaning, a spotlight like on…
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femfestival 2023
16 December 2023

The Heart Asks Pleasure First / Carlotta Ferrari
4.6 (23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9t8aKwembIThe Heart Asks Pleasure First, developed around a modal center of D, is divided into three main sections: the first and the last feature the idea of death, related to the heart as its ultimate destiny. The mood of the first and last sections is…
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femfestival 2022
6 March 2023

Mondspiel / Ingrid Stölzel
3 (2)

1° place  - Femfestival 2022   “Mondspiel” is a reimagining of two famous German evening songs  for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Viola and Cello. The texts for “Der Mond is aufgegangen” and “Verstohlen geht der Mond auf” have inspired many composers throughout western music history, including Franz…
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femfestival 2022
6 March 2023

Glistening ray [“kintsugi”] / Akari Komura
0 (0)

2° place in tie - Femfestival 2022   “Kintsugi” is a traditional Japanese craftsman technique which intends to repair broken pottery with golden lacquer by mending the broken pieces. The philosophy behind this artistry has a deeper connection to the Japanese aesthetics of embracing imperfection…
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femfestival 2022
6 March 2023

Heterophonia / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

2° place in tie - Femfestival 2022   The composition "Heterophony" - for soprano, flute, violin and cello - is based upon the poem of Pnina Avni. "Heterophony" strives to reflect different forms of dialogue between couples, and as if outlining the text in sound,…
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femfestival 2022
25 November 2022

Ninni Nani / Marina Karagianni
4.6 (208)

This song brings together two lullabies: one Greek and one Turkish in an original composition. It wishes to expose the striking similarities between two neighbouring people that have not always co-existed harmoniously. The song poses the question of what belongs to whom in folk traditions.…
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femfestival 2022
22 November 2022

Jinzhe / Kaiyi Kao
4.6 (1018)

1° place in the femfestival online contest - 2022 Edition For Flute solo A year is divided into 24 solar terms in the traditional East Asian calendar and Jingzhe is the 3rd solar term. Jingzhe means the awakening of hibernating insects. During this period thunderstorms…
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femfestival 2022
6 November 2022

La petite danseuse d’eau / Cécile Buchet
4.7 (74)

"La petite danseuse d'eau" was conceived as a sound poem. It evokes a fairy creature that one can imagine by observing the movements of the droplets projected by a stream.   For harp and electronic Composed in 2019 Interpreted by Cécile Buchet Cécile Buchet Born…
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femfestival 2022
2 November 2022

Unnatural Oscillations / Laila Arafah
4.6 (14)

Unnatural Oscillations is concerned with superimpositions and distortions; brash, dissonant chords overwhelm faint, meandering, fragmentary material, only allowing certain fragments to be discernable. This eventually lurches into a series of chorale like passages, with snippets of the chorale warped and folded into the dissonant voids.…
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femfestival 2022
31 October 2022

String Quartet No. 2 “Adrenaline” / Feona Lee Jones
3.6 (7)

Adrenaline is a 4-movement string quartet piece titled for the dissonant driving chromatic motives that clash and glissando towards a mass of aggressive, rhythmic, and cluster-heavy patterns that unfold into an adrenaline-driven force that continues until the end. Feona Lee Jones Feona Lee Jones is…
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femfestival 2022
30 October 2022

A Penguin’s Tale / Leyla Remzi
3.8 (11)

This piece was inspired by an article I read in a National Geographic magazine. I wrote my first choral piece to this idea and made the lyrics quotes that I altered to fit the piece that were all found in articles about penguins. I used…
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femfestival 2022
30 October 2022

Ma giungerà una sera / Carlotta Ferrari
4.5 (10)

'Ma giungerà una sera' is a choral composition for mixed choir. It features a text written by the Italian female poet Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938). Carlotta Ferrari Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) is an Italian composer. She served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University…
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femfestival 2022
30 October 2022

All My Fond Love / Carlotta Ferrari
4.7 (36)

'All My Fond Love' is a chanson for voice and guitar with roots in Pier Paolo Pasolini's texts. Three fragments are combined, each taken from a different moment of Pasolini's tragic life. Carlotta Ferrari Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) is an Italian composer. She served as…
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femfestival 2022
30 October 2022

Variazioni sopra la pizzica di San Vito / Carlotta Ferrari
3.6 (7)

'Variazioni sopra la pizzica di San Vito' is an organ piece based on the epponymous tarantella, a popular success of Italian traditional music. Carlotta Ferrari Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) is an Italian composer. She served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University in…
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femfestival 2021
20 May 2022

There’s a certain Slant of light / Francesca Gambelli
5 (5)

Brano per voce e pianoforte, su testo di Emily Dickinson. There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the…
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femfestival 2021
14 February 2022

Pluto / Francesca Lazzeroni
5 (1)

Pluto Chromatic song for four voices; text taken from Canto VII of Dante's Inferno. It is part of the work "Bestiario infernale" written by the author in 2014. The recording proposed here was made live at the Accademia dei Fisiocritici in Siena and performed by…
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femfestival 2021
26 January 2022

Narratives / Pamela Soria
4.2 (5)

Narratives How do we extract meaning from sound and speech? How are messages and ideas generated from our sensorial surroundings? "Narratives" tries to give an answer creating a sonic reflection where sonority is the place where time, meaning and sound meet. Pamela Soria Pamela Soria is a…
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femfestival 2021
26 January 2022

Tiempo / Pamela Soria
4.3 (4)

Tiempo Is sound trapped in Time? The clock starts ticking at its usual speed, yet sound tries to play around it, trying to rebel from its constant pace. The tension is building, sound can't escape and a void swallows everything only to reveal that sound, even…
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femfestival 2021
10 December 2021

Hoordokht / Mozhgan Chahian
5 (7)

Finalist piece at femfestival 2021 - Winner of the Special Orchestra Prize This piece was composed in 2021. It is for mezzosoprano and orchestra and it was inspired by a poem from a region in the north-east of Iran. In composing this piece, in order…
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femfestival 2021
10 December 2021

In this short life / Francesca Gambelli
4.4 (23)

Finalist piece at femfestival 2021 This piece is for mezzo soprano and orchestra and it is based on two texts by Emily Dickinson that have, as common subject, a poetic reflection on life and its mysteries. The first text is the longest and of this…
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femfestival 2021
10 December 2021

EC Sketches / Hsu Chiayu
4.4 (8)

Winner piece at femfestival 2021 EC Sketches, is a movement depicting the different seasons in Eau Claire. The music starts with the low rumbling of sound and gradually expands the register as well as incorporates different families of the orchestra to create chords in distant…
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femfestival 2021
6 December 2021

Who would have the courage to carry such a heavy past with us? / Yue Song
5 (4)

Finalist piece at femfestival 2021 This piece is from my chamber opera Tattoo, it is an area for mezzosoprano. It tells the story of a woman, Lian, who experience the was in the 1940s and who was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army but…
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femfestival 2021
6 December 2021

The space – Larisa Shibert
0 (0)

Winner piece at femfestival 2021 Larisa Shibert Larisa Shibert, born in Bryansk, Russia in 1999, is a Russian composer, singer and music theorist. She is also a member of the youth department of the Russian Union of Composers and winner of 40 all-Russian and international…
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femfestival 2021
6 December 2021

Cosmos / Sara Maeng
0 (0)

Finalist piece at femfestival 2021 My music is about energy, time, and universe. I imagined the birth and growth of the universe and wrote this piece. My wish for approach to pitches, harmony, and sounds materials with a sense of carefulness and concentration. I hope…
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femfestival 2021
31 October 2021

Natural Spectra / Georgia Kalodiki
4.7 (20)

The piece ‘Natural Spectra’(6.16’’, 2020, Stereo) is inspired by nature... As a point of departure, sounds of animals, birds, waterfalls, songs of native people and a variety of enviromental noise spectra are mixed together with flute, guitar and percussive activity in an effort to revoke…
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femfestival 2021
26 October 2021

Lockdown / Corinne Latteur
4.4 (339)

This orchestral composition entitled “Lockdown” is intended to be a tribute to all the victims affected by this pandemic, a tribute to reltives without hugging their loved ones for the last time. The marked, jarring, apocalyptic but also passionate and engaging aspect of the piece…
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femfestival 2021
19 October 2021

Alice’s dreamy memories / Simona Iuorio
4.5 (283)

Alice’s dreamy memories is a four hands piano piece, written for the “Associazione Concerti in Città di Noto”. It was recorded during its first performance in December 2019 at Palazzo Nicolaci, in Noto (SR). Its title recalls the enchanted world of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
19 October 2021

Libertà va cercando / Simona Iuorio
4.6 (219)

Libertà va cercando (Freedom he seeks) is a music composition for cello, clarinet and piano trio. Written on the occasion of the 700th year recurrence of Dante’s death, the piece was performed for the first time in July 2021 at the Mascarade Opera Studio in…
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femfestival 2021
19 October 2021

Sanctified / Bracha Bdil
4.4 (10)

“Where I stand before you, I do not stand alone. With me here, at this time, 6 million accusers. But they cannot rise to point an accusing finger at the glass booth and shout at one sitting there, I blame. The ashes piled high on…
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femfestival 2021
18 October 2021

Le cheval arabe / Noà Zanon
4.8 (39)

Noà Zanon Noà Zanon, ha iniziato a suonare il pianoforte all’età di quattro anni. Adesso studia al conservatorio francese de Dijon. Quest’anno, a 17 anni, ha conseguito il DEM (diploma di studi musicali) con le felicitazioni della jury. A nove anni ha eseguito un concerto…
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femfestival 2021
18 October 2021

Violette – Pinot Noir / Noà Zanon
4.7 (34)

Una musica per descrivere ciò che si sente quando cammina nella vigna, nel terroir Monte Santo e si sente il profumo del vino Pinot Noir Monte Santo. Noà Zanon Noà Zanon, ha iniziato a suonare il pianoforte all’età di quattro anni. Adesso studia al conservatorio…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
18 October 2021

Zouzou / Noà Zanon
4.4 (32)

Composizione creata improvvisando al pianoforte. Mi ispiro a diversi elementi naturali o a animali. Zouzou, per esempio, è un'opera dedicata al mio gatto. Noà Zanon Noà Zanon, ha iniziato a suonare il pianoforte all’età di quattro anni. Adesso studia al conservatorio francese de Dijon. Quest’anno,…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
18 October 2021

La dolcezza delle dolomiti / Noà Zanon
4.5 (49)

Questa composizione traduce la serenità che si può trovare sulle Dolomiti, in Alpago. Noà Zanon Noà Zanon, ha iniziato a suonare il pianoforte all’età di quattro anni. Adesso studia al conservatorio francese de Dijon. Quest’anno, a 17 anni, ha conseguito il DEM (diploma di studi…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
16 October 2021

Iridescent shadows / Toh Yan Ee
4.9 (169)

Iridescent shadows is inspired by the subjective and volatile nature of human perspective. It refers to the human processing of memory, particularly the revisiting of unpleasant experiences that are later viewed in a more positive light, as well as the selective filtering of moments of pleasure,…
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femfestival 2021
15 October 2021

Rendez-Vous in Picardie / Zoe Felton
3.5 (13)

Part of Postcards from France, this is one of a collection of musical postcards - short pieces written for soprano sax and piano. Having an ethereal character to it, the two parts work together with neither more important than the other. It is based on…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
15 October 2021

Ruach / Zoe Felton
3.5 (6)

Ruach is a Hebrew word literally meaning Air in Motion but representing the Holy Spirit. As a piece of music for wind instruments it really is Air in Motion, but it is also a four part musical representation of the gospel: Beginnings tells the story…
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femfestival 2021
15 October 2021

Springtime in Paris / Zoe Felton
3 (3)

The final ‘Postcard from France’ symbolises the growth and new life of ‘Springtime’. The easy going opening, depicting the emergence of warmth and breaking out of winter, grows out of the theme from Rendez-Vous in Picardie and sees the soprano sax accompanying the piano before…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Tibetan Ceremony / Yue Song
4.3 (130)

Composed by Yue Song. This piece was written for Chinese Orchestra and was performed in 2016. It describes the grand impression of seeing the ceremony, the sincere emotions that Tibetans offer to this world. Wei Sang (煨桑) is a ritual where Tibetan people use the…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

UrbaNature / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

Stuck in traffic jam, movement of many people, automaton-people-, moving mechanically, beeping at you. But in these carts there are souls, working and sensitive, really? How did the automaton cover the soul, how do the achievements cover the breathing, Measuring all day competition and bravado.…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Mediterranean Suite / Bracha Bdil
5 (1)

The work "Mediterranean Suite" is written for Symphony Orchestra and has four movements: Pesante Adgitato Allegretto Spirito In a Folk Style. The movements are written in a pseudo-dance style. Using the modal world and the asymmetric meters brings the listener the exotic Mediterranean fragrance. At…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Inhalation Space / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

The work "Inhalation Space" for a stereo soundtrack expresses a human's desire to reduce the gap between his smallness and the magnitude of creation, nature, the universe. In the work, mystical sounds can be heard vis-à-vis human-produced voices. Wind whistles and noises against human noise…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

A Mistery / Bracha Bdil
5 (1)

The work "A Mistery" - is a short Bagatelle for a Solo Violin. The Bagatelle was written due to a sudden illumination of a single idea and explores the technical and musical possibilities of the instrument. Bracha Bdil Bracha Bdil (1988), composer, conductor and pianist,…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Three Monologues / Bracha Bdil
5 (1)

The work "Three Monologues" is a collection of 3 short Bagatelles for solo flute describing an impression, atmosphere or feeling. Each Bagatelle was written due to a sudden illumination of a single idea and explores the technical and musical possibilities of the instrument. The work…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Fragrance Blues / Bracha Bdil
5 (2)

"Fragrance Blues" is a piece for piano solo which is written in a classic medium, a virtuoso pianist, using fresh elements from the blues world, with the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic Fragrance Bracha Bdil Bracha Bdil (1988), composer, conductor and pianist, is a member of…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Parody Waltz / Bracha Bdil
3.5 (2)

"Parody Waltz" is a composition constructed as a standart waltz in a three-part structure: waltz, trio, waltz. Despite the formal and stylistic patterns, deliberate irregularities in the musical contents are evident. These deviations seem to attract the listener and reveal that although the covering is…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Fa-Sonata / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"Fa-Sonata" is a Sonata for solo piano in three movements - a tribute to the musical tradition – its three movements are: 1. Allegro 2. Adagio Cantabile 3. Rondo. Within the formal patterns and traditional fabric such the composer includes contemporary musical content which attracts…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Piano Amusements / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"Piano Amusements" is a collection of five short, concise bagatelles for piano solo with various gestures performed by the pianist.The composition includes 5 movements: 1. Bells 2. Thoughts 3. Snake 4. Vocallisa 5. Stuck! Each Bagatelle was written due to a sudden illumination of a…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Shofar / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

The Shofar is a biblical horn – the Jewish symbol of Rosh Hashanah which is the first day of the Jewish New Year.  It is also a holy day in which human beings are judged for their past actions and their future is determined, for…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

In Memory of Voices / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"In Memory of the Voices" is based on the main motif of the composer Mark Kopytman in his work " Voice of Memory" (1981) - a work that was born from listening to the singing of Yemeni Jews when he immigrated to Israel. The work…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

To Gather Alone / Bracha Bdil
5 (1)

A Duet for Flute (or Sopran Recorder) and Piano The composition "To Gather Alone" is a short, humorous work consisting of two sections. The first part is written mostly in unison using both instruments, which are intersecting\complementary to each other. The style is a sort…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Oasis / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

The duet "Oasis" for clarinet (Bb) and piano is based on different Maqamat and combines ethnic and classic fragrance. It contains instructions for improvisation (for the piano part) as it is used in the Mediterranean traditional music. The work aims to describe the air of…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Hayom – Day of Judgement / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

This composition was dedicated to the great pianist Prof. Alexander Tamir on the occasion of a composition competition on the subject of "Music and Holocaust" - in memory of Wolf Durmashkin - held in Germany, 2018. "This day" (Hebrew: "hayom") – mining the holly important…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Flöte am Bach / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"Flöte am Bach" is a duet for two flutes a tribute to the musical tradition with which are accustomed, especially the baroque period. The work has 3 movements which are of contrasting character: Prelude, Vocalise, Canon-Dance. The 1st movement is a lively and light prelude,…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Birds’ Fête / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"Birds' Fête" is a theatrical-comic work for a-cappella choir (SATB) is based on words from Psalms 84: The sparrow hath found a house and the swallow a nest for herself From among the branches they sing All of them wait for Thee Thou openest Thy…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Preserve me, O Lord / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

"Preserve me, O Lord" is a work for Male\Femail choir and piano which is based on the words from Psalms (Chapter 140). The work is written as a neo-baroque Aria and expresses a prayer and supplication for the Supreme Power to save one from persecution…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

My Father’s Death / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

Hebrew version. The work "My Father's Death" is a neo-baroque lamentation based on the words of the poetess Pnina Avni. In dealing with such an emotional text as in "My Father's Death" the composition reflects the theatrical aspect, when the use of the text by…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

The Inner Soul (Memory) / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

Hebrew version of the 2° song of The Inner Soul, a cycle of songs for Soprano & Piano.   Phenomena such as fear, loneliness, memory or insanity - many of us prefer to suppress in a drawer shut in our hearts and throw away the…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Yizkerem – May our Lord remember them / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

The composition "Yizkerem" is for an A-cappella Choir (SATB) and deals with the tragedy of the Holocaust for the Jewish nation. I will not forget the chilling story I heard about the murder of Jews in the concentration camp in Estonia, when the truck that…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Fuga Fuggitiva / Bracha Bdil
0 (0)

The work "Fuga Fugitiva" is a lively and mischievous Fuga for Woodwinds, Brass. Timpani and Percussion. The work, as its name implies, is based on melodic lines that 'run-away' and 'pursue' each other in a  dancing, playful, cheerful, rhythmic and grotesque atmosphere. Bracha Bdil Bracha…
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femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Variations / Bracha Bdil
5 (1)

"Variations" is a work for solo piano based on a theme which develops a Bourree by the Baroque composer Christoph Graupner. The variations grow and develop in the following styles: musette, polka, gigue, march, tango, fantasy-ballade, and choral-Coda. Bracha Bdil Bracha Bdil (1988), composer, conductor…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Volar contigo / Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres
4.6 (31)

Work created in 2004 interpreted this time with the accompaniment of Maestro Domingo Felipe Castro on the piano and on the voice of Anna Lee Carrete, vocalist of the UNIVERSO quartet. Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres Director of Vocal Universo. Cuba. (Doctor, pianist, teacher, composer, arranger,…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Acaríciame con acompanamiento / Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres
4.6 (33)

Work created in 2005 on the occasion of the Cuban Disco Festival CUBADISCO, dedicated to women on that occasion, performed in Pinar del Río by Vocal Universo who is accompanied by her group (piano, bass, percussion and flute). Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres Director of Vocal…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
14 October 2021

Acaríciame / Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres
4.6 (29)

Work created in 2005 on the occasion of the Cuban Disco Festival CUBADISCO, dedicated to women on that occasion, performed by Vocal Universo in a cappella version. Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres Director of Vocal Universo. Cuba. (Doctor, pianist, teacher, composer, arranger, vocalist and minor percussion)…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Eoe Caribe / Martha Jacqueline Ramírez Torres
4.7 (30)

The joy, the color and the sounds of the Caribbean are described in this song and Cuba as part of this mosaic of languages, ethnic groups, rhythms and traditions. Composed in 2005 on the occasion of the most important recording event in the country and…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Surge, propera amica mea / Ana Geoghegan
4 (6)

My piece "Surge, propera amica mea" is inspired by a piece of the same name by Raffaella Aleotti. It is a choral work for 8 voices (ie, 2 SATB choirs). This recording is the piece’s premiere at a Young Composer Competition held by the ORA…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Visiones / Valeria Romero
4.2 (25)

VISIONES (VISIONS) - string quintet and piano It’s inspired in a movie, which tells the story of a boy who is orphaned and under his uncle care. He was the maintainer of the Paris clock train station. The boy goes to live at the station…
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Love1187
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Sirio II / Valeria Romero
4.4 (29)

SIRIO II (SIRIUS II) - Piano and String orchestra. Together with Sirius I, these are two compositions inspired in the brightest star that we can see from Earth, which is Sirius star. Sirius is part of the constellation Canis Major, and it is a binary…
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Love1187
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Sirio I / Valeria Romero
4.3 (22)

SIRIO I (SIRIUS I) - Piano and String orchestra. Together with Sirius II, these are two compositions inspired in the brightest star that we can see from Earth, which is Sirius star. Sirius is part of the constellation Canis Major, and it is a binary…
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Love1187
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Claridad / Valeria Romero
4.5 (20)

CLARIDAD (CLEARNESS) - For String quintet and voice It is a kind of "Vidalita", with a slow and deep tempo and it has certain pinch of sadness. It was born from the reflection on childhood, shared with a friend. We promised ourselves to see some…
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Love1187
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Anochence / Valeria Romero
4.5 (20)

ANOCHECE (EVENING). It is a work for solo viola, composed in September 2020. It is a piece full of nostalgia, and feelings of loneliness and sadness, that is why it seeks to explore the darkest sound within the register of this instrument, that is, the…
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Love1187
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Te Deum Laudamus / Annie Fontana
4.5 (8)

TE DEUM LAUDAMUS per Orchestra e Coro Orchestra e Coro “Kerigma” di Padova diretti da Stefano Pietrocarlo   Questo antico canto cristiano è stato musicato dall’autrice riproponendo le asciutte e severe  sonorità della polifonia tardo medievale, arricchendole di sonorità strumentali proprie dell’orchestra moderna. Annie Fontana…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Canto d’aprile / Annie Fontana
4.6 (7)

CANTO D’APRILE per soprano e pianoforte Soprano Nadina Clistru Pianoforte Andrea Mannucci   Composizione del 2020 commissionata dal  Concorso Internazionale di Canto “Elsa Respighi”, su testo di Ada Negri. La musica, come una trama sottile, si adatta al testo poetico, recuperando alcuni tratti della liederistica…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Nebbia / Annie Fontana
4.5 (13)

NEBBIA per clarinetto, clavicembalo e orchestra d’archi Clarinetto Andrea Agrati Clavicembalo Gaia De Lorenzi Orchestra ‘900 diretta da Emanuele Pasqualin   Siamo a Venezia, in una Venezia nebbiosa, una sera di ottobre del 1999. I ricordi di Vivaldi e delle sue Stagioni, galleggiano in un’acqua…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Intreccio / Annie Fontana
4 (6)

INTRECCIO per ensemble strumentale Ensemble Shirè Miqdash   Composizione del 2018, scritta in occasione della Giornata Europea della Cultura Ebraica, è un intreccio appunto di tre note melodie ebraiche, che si trovano prima giustapposte e poi unite verticalmente in contrappunto. Annie Fontana Annie Fontana, nata…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Shemà / Annie Fontana
4.2 (5)

SHEMA' per baritono, violino, violoncello, clarinetto e tromba. Baritono: Hazar Mursitpinar Violino: Elio Orio Violoncello: Bruno Beraldo Clarinetto: Salvatore Baronilli Tromba: Francesco Vella L’autrice ha voluto musicare questa preghiera ebraica in lingua originale, preghiera che esorta ad ascoltare e a non avere altri dei, in…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Toccata / Annie Fontana
4.4 (9)

TOCCATA per pianoforte Pianoforte Maurizio Scalabrin   La Toccata del 2019 vuol’essere una composizione virtuosistica che riprende alcuni tratti della grande letteratura pianistica, omaggio anche al pianista Maurizio Scalabrin, interprete lisztiano di valore. Annie Fontana Annie Fontana, nata a Milano nel 1955, ha compiuto gli…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Tái chê / Marisol Gentile
4.6 (76)

Live recording Musiciens of the Ensamble Rosario, conducted by Marisol Gentile Solo cello: María Elena Derenzi   The picture belongs to Adriana Patricia Canero "ORO", Tec. collage. Marisol Gentile -Degree in Composition, Prof of Composition and Technique in Harmony and Counterpoint. Her catalog includes works…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Autorretrato / Marisol Gentile
4.7 (64)

The work was composed based on the poem of my authorship "Self-portrait", trying to capture with music the literary ideas exposed there.   The picture belongs to Evangelina Lenarduzzi “Autorretrato en espejo”27 cm x 18 cm. Grafito y acuarela sobre papel. Marisol Gentile -Degree in…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Cârpi / Marisol Gentile
4.6 (54)

This work is separated into two movements, each using a main motif that distinguishes it from the other. This motif is repeated with minimal variations in terms of durations, intervals, rhythms, timbres, and registers. The idea is to achieve in the listener a sound journey,…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Occursus / Marisol Gentile
4.8 (59)

Live recording Orchestra of the Ensamble Rosario, conducted by Marisol Gentile   The picture belongs to Adriana Patricia Canero "Juego de letras", tec. mixta. Marisol Gentile -Degree in Composition, Prof of Composition and Technique in Harmony and Counterpoint. Her catalog includes works for solo instruments,…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Prana / Marisol Gentile
4.7 (57)

This piece was written especially for María Elena Derenzi, a great Argentine cellist (from the city of Rosario), a dear friend of many years and a fervent and enthusiastic disseminator of contemporary music. The work was composed to be premiered at the "35th Contemporary Music…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Agelaius / Marisol Gentile
4.7 (54)

Agelaius is the scientific name for the pájaro varillero (varillero´s Bird), a typical argentine bird who lives in the litoral zone of the country (Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes, Misiones and Entre Rios provinces) This is a piece programmatic at the whole, and…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Yasmania / Marisol Gentile
4.6 (54)

This piece is divided into 3 short movements. The name is a tribute to jazz, trying a kind of approach to this genre, exposing ideas in the form of imitation and caricature.    The picture belongs to Adriana Patricia Canero " Viento", técnica mixta. Marisol…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Antirretrato / Marisol Gentile
4.8 (46)

This piece was composed based on the poem of my authorship "Antiretrato", trying to capture with music the literary ideas exposed there.   The picture belongs to Evangelina Lenarduzzi De la serie de autorretratos. “Voy Atravesando espejos”. Acuarela y tinta china sobre papel. 18 cm…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Quetzales / Marisol Gentile
4.8 (50)

The quetzal is a climbing bird from Central and North America, with a tail as long as the body and with soft plumage (green and red, and yellowish beak and legs). It has the detail of a silky bow on the head. This piece is…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Áshram / Marisol Gentile
4.9 (44)

The Áshram is a place of Hindu meditation and teaching, both religious and cultural, where students live under the same roof as their teachers. It is the place where Hindus who have decided to withdraw from worldly life must live and who do not live…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Tres estampas / Marisol Gentile
4.8 (46)

Each movement tries to describe the title that characterizes it. -Autumn mist: through the wonderful effects that can be made with the bass flute, such as eolium sound, whistletones, whishpertones and bisbigliandos, among others, I have tried to translate into music the unique spectacle of…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Petrel / Marisol Gentile
4.8 (43)

This work is separated into three movements,  and was written especially for Analí Torregiani, a great Argentine soprano (from the city of Santa Fe): a dear friend of many years and a fervent and enthusiastic disseminator of contemporary music.   The picture belongs to Evangelina…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Suite per Lorella / Annie Fontana
4 (6)

SUITE PER LORELLA & Co  per violino, clarinetto e pianoforte Violino: Vera Sturman Clarinetto: Marilisa Mariani Pianoforte: Lorella Ruffin   La Suite del 2017 consta di quattro movimenti: Habanera, Barcarola, Minuetto e Tango. Sonorità di danze sudamericane si alternano a momenti più riflessivi e intimi,…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Encuentro / Valeria Romero
4.3 (18)

ENCUENTRO (MEETING) - For clarinet, piano, flute and string quintet. This composition is inspired in a book by an Argentine writer, where the protagonist writes and sends letters to a love, and through them she narrates her feelings, her desires, the construction of love and…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Papillons / Marisol Gentile
4.7 (31)

This piece is a descriptive and programmatic work, which takes butterflies as its central figure: beautiful creatures, owners of a unique color -envy for any painter-, free, wonderful, but with an atrocious destiny. Marked by the fleeting nature of their lives, marked by the ephemerality…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Light and Shadow / Yael Ofer
4.5 (39)

This work is called Light and Shadow. It is dedicated to my sister Deborah. A little light in the dark gives us comfort. In this piece I sing and play the flute. Yael Ofer Yael Ofer was born in Jerusalem in 1979, where she is…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Fall / Yael Ofer
4.4 (48)

Sometimes we feel like water falling from great heights in a huge waterfall. This piece is called The Fall. And it describes a familiar state of mind after the fall. Sadness, loneliness, a lot of time and space to think. Yael Ofer Yael Ofer was…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Canzonette latine / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Canzonette latine (2014) è una raccolta di 5 arie da camera per soprano drammatico e pianoforte su testi di autori latini classici. La scrittura è modale in ossequio alle harmoniai greche. La raccolta è dedicata al soprano anglo-cipriota Katerina Mina che l'ha eseguita in varie…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Gallo Canente / Carlotta Ferrari
3 (2)

Gallo Canente (2015) è parte di una più ampia raccolta corale di canoni sacri diretti, inversi, retrogradi ed enigmatici. Gallo Canente, il cui testo è tratto da un inno ambrosiano, è un canone alla seconda che imita il canto del gallo. Carlotta Ferrari Carlotta Ferrari…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Inno a Margherita / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Inno a Margherita (2017) è una cantata per coro, orchestra d'archi e strumenti ad libitum scritta su commissione per il Cégep Saint-Laurent di Montréal, Canada, per essere eseguito dagli studenti nel corso di una serata dedicata all'Italia e a Margherita Hack. Il testo della cantata,…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Angels & Demons / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Angels & Demons (2020) è un canone inverso ispirato al ben noto quadro di M.C. Escher in cui l'incisore olandese alterna angeli e diavoli. Il brano si configura come un canone inverso, i cui incastri rappresentano le alternanze di figure angeliche e demoniache escheriane. Anche…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Gerusalemme terrestre / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Gerusalemme terrestre (2019) è una composizione per piccolo organo ispirata alla città di Pienza, intesa come il riflesso in terra umana della Gerusalemme celeste, e come metafora della ricerca della spiritualità nel mondo umano, nella vita di tutti i giorni. Il brano è articolato in…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Toccata, corale e fuga sopra Fra Martino / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Toccata, corale e fuga sopra Fra Martino (2018) è un brano tripartito per organo scritto per l'interprete bresciano Ivan Ronda che lo esegue in questa versione discografica. La composizione si articola in tre movimenti: una toccata brillante iniziale che espone il tema, la nota melodia…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Rasoterra / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Rasoterra (2020) è una villanella contemporanea per coro a voci miste scritta poco prima della pandemia di Covid-19 ed eseguita dunque da coro virtuale. Il linguaggio è nemodale e coniuga parti cantate con parti parlate. Carlotta Ferrari Carlotta Ferrari (1975) è una compositrice italiana, le…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Quatuor modalis / Carlotta Ferrari
5 (1)

Quatuor modalis (2016) è una composizione bipartita per quartetto di sassofoni, costituita da un tranquillo ricercare all'antica seguito da una canzona di carattere più vivace. La particolarità del brano è che esso sfrutta le forme tradizionali come cornice per il dipanarsi di una grammatica compositiva…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Ave Regina / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Ave Regina (2007) è una composizione per coro femminile o di voci bianche a tre parti che alterna momenti contrappuntistici a blocchi di accordi che emergono dal materiale neomodale a disposizione dell'autrice. Il primissimo accordo, che poi ricorre nella ripresa, è dissonante come a simboleggiare…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

I prigioni / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

I prigioni (2021) è una composizione per organo ispirata alle ben note sculture non finite di Michelangelo. Proprio come per il grande artista rinascimentale, le cui creazioni emergono dalla pietra togliendo le parti in eccesso, in questo brano semialeatorio la materia sonora si delinea poco…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

The Cat of Cats / Carlotta Ferrari
3.7 (3)

The Cat of Cats (2016) è una composizione per coro virile su un divertente testo dell'autore vittoriano William Brighty Rands. La scrittura, sfruttando i glissandi, evoca il sornione miagolio dei gatti. Il brano ha vinto il secondo premio all'edizione 2018 della Opus Ignotum Choral Composition…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Child of the Manger / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Child of the Manger (2018) è un brano natalizio commissionato all'autrice da parte della Harvard University per essere eseguito alla 109a edizione del Christmas Carol Service nel dicembre di quell'anno, presso la Memorial Church della prestigiosa università statunitense. Lo stile compositivo coniuga armonie contemporanee e…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Fandango RPS / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Fandango RPS (2020) è un pezzo per organo basato sulla grammatica compositiva Restarting Pitch Space ideata dal compositore statunitense Carson Cooman (https://carsoncooman.com/restarting-pitch-space/). Il brano è strutturato in modo tale che la forma di fandango funga da contenitore per la grammatica RPS, in un risultato che…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Dittico della morte / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

Dittico della morte (2014) è un brano contemplativo per violino solo. Diviso in due sezioni, simboleggia l'attesa universale della morte e l'eterno vuoto del cosmo, dove simbolicamente si intende collocare la morte ma anche la vita stessa. Il riferimento a Crono, che divora i propri…
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Love266
femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Nos sumus in mundo / Carlotta Ferrari
4.5 (2)

Nos sumus in mundo (2007) è un brano per coro femminile su un testo di Hildegard von Bingen. Le due linee contrappuntistiche dialogano con momenti di bordone a sostegno l'una dell'altra. Il linguaggio compositivo è nettamente neomodale e le atmosfere evocate sono quelle del misticismo…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

O orzchis Ecclesia / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

O orzchis Ecclesia (2021) è una composizione commissionata dall'ensemble statunitense Heri et Hodie, che l'ha eseguita in prima mondiale nel maggio 2021. Nel testo, Hildegard von Bingen utilizza frammenti di lingua ignota da lei ideata che servono da spunto per la presenza di madrigalismi e…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

La nube del giorno più nera / Carlotta Ferrari
0 (0)

La nube del giorno più nera (2018) è una composizione cameristica ispirata ai ben noti versi pascoliani. Dopo una prima sezione che evoca le nubi del giorno, il pezzo finisce con una parte più vivace che simboleggia l'aprirsi del cielo a sera; l'ultimo accordo, tuttavia,…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

Socially Distant / Katrina Penman
4.6 (37)

In this piece, a lonely person, isolated in their home due to the coronavirus, alert searches for dialogue. A distant response comes from within, or, perhaps, from without. The protagonist battles with uncertainty, finally letting out an anguished cry. A neighbour knocks on the door…
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femfestival 2021
13 October 2021

To Andalusa and Beyond / Katrina Penman
4.5 (56)

I wrote this piece following a tour in Andalusia. When I was in cordoba, the flutist Wendela van Swol  encouraged me to write a new piece for flute and piano. Arrived at home, I was inspired by a melody that I found in one of…
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