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Giovanni Sollima

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This album features Giovanni Sollima, a cellist popular in Japan, performing orchestral works by his father, the composer Eliodoro Sollima (Palermo). Amid the radical contemporary music movement in Palermo during the 1960s, a portrait emerges of a composer who distanced himself from dogmatic total serialism; while experimenting with the twelve-tone technique, he prioritized singing above all else and maintained a free approach that remained accessible to the audience. The program includes the Rondo Burlesco for Piano and Orchestra (1951; world premiere recording), which integrates percussive piano and burlesque elements into the classical rondo form; the Concerto for Strings (1968), composed in memory of R.F. Kennedy; the Aria for Cello and Strings (1945), which depicts the joy of survival during wartime through sustained melodies; the Chamber Overture (1948/50world premiere recording), whi