Aurelio Canonici - Piano Preludes (2022)

The pieces of this CD explore emotional and expressive dimensions of great suggestion, nowadays however frequently neglected. The piano becomes a vehicle to give sound concreteness to slowness, introspection, longing and meditative resonance. Most of the pieces take shape, open, develop, reach a climax and then dissolve, vanish, occasionally leaving question marks, suspended sentences. The language is simple and at the same time harmonically refined; the melodies are circular, sometimes archaic, with echoes between French impressionism and minimalism, filtered through the evocation of a soundtrack that is very contemporary and at the same time ancient. Preludes then, as openings and preparations to our most hidden interiority.