I Pomeriggi Musicali - Baroque Revisited (2021)

International audiences have come to love the Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero through his operatic works, including ‘Marilyn’ and ‘La Conquista’. His music offers an ‘unapologetic synthesis of classical traditions and popular styles, never forgetting its forerunners of the nineteenth century’. In ‘Baroque Revisited’, Lorenzo Ferrero seeks inspiration in architecture—but without attempting to capture individual buildings in music. He follows in the footsteps of the Baroque genius Guarino Guarini in his own home-town of Turin, and in St Petersburg he encounters Bartolomeo Rastrelli at every corner. He explores the musicality of the golden, yellow tuff stone that dominates the architecture of the Italian town of Lecce, and listens his way into the neo-Baroque American Gilded Age. Conductor Carlo Boccadoro captures these playful resonances in congenial manner with the ensemble I Pomeriggi Musicali. Boccadoro is thoroughly familiar with Lorenzo Ferrero’s music, enabling him to make simple those things that are only seemingly simple. Following the release of ‘Tempi di Quartetto’ (KL1404) with the Quartetto die Cremona and of ‘A Life in Waves’ (KL1418) with I Pomeriggi Musicali and Carlo Boccadoro, ‘Baroque Revisited’ offers the third disc with works by Lorenzo Ferrero available from the klanglogo label.