SOLLIMA Giovanni

(Palermo, 1962)

L.B. Files per violoncello, orchestra d'archi ed electronics

00h 19' 00" Solo

texts by Giacomo Casanova and Gilbert Diop Abdourahmane

Material exclusively for the author

1.Concerto
2.Igiul
3.Fandango del Signore Boqueriny
4.Boccherino

"I composed L.B. Files in 2005 and I played it at the Kronberg Cello Festival, dedicated that year to Luigi Boccherini. I chose a simple narrative form, almost a micro-dramatization for a film or a story: the life of Boccherini, an Italian from Lucca (Tuscany) who emigrated to Spain and ended his days in absolute poverty.
I like his unrestrained curiosity and his ability to adopt and mix contrasting forms, techniques and styles (from Flamenco to Zarzuela, from Fandango to the harsh sounds on the cello's bridge, to birds' imitations, etc.).
L.B. Files is articulated into four dance movements (I've always seen him as a dancing cellist ...) with a subtle eros (the Fandango is built on his original bassline. Giacomo Casanova tells of their meeting in his Memoirs ... can we be sure that they actually met? I like to believe they did ...). In the last movement I imagine that Boccherini returns, after a few hundred years, from Senegal ..."
Giovanni Sollima

Composed in: 2005

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