LOMBARDI, DANIELE - Costellazione Seconda

2011 release. Costellazione Seconda is the follow-up to Daniele Lombardis 1978 Costellazione, a piano exploration based on a map of constellations planned as the first step of a large work focused on the exposition and performance of constellations maps, planetaria, and maps of the heavens. Costellazione Seconda is broken up into 21 short piano movements concentrated on incredibly short staccato notes that sting violently between fractured harmonics, leaving plenty of momentum-puncturing silences to really heighten the sense of disorientation -- as well as two long (over 20 minutes) piano excursions. - Cramps.