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Mogrovejo-D'Ambrosio: Hyele: Sound Poems for Narrator and Piano

Luigi Mogrovejo, Rosalba Di Girolamo

C007501 CdNarrator, Piano

Physical and Digital Release: 25 August 2023

Luigi Mogrovejo and Rosalba Di Girolamo present Hyele, exploring the relationship between spoken words and piano in sound poems created with texts by D’Ambrosio.

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Digital programme · 21 tracks

  1. 01Poem 1 after "Settembre" - Poem 2 after "Orma su orma"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo5:06
  2. 02Poem 3 after "Il murmure del Bruca" - Poem 4 after "Su le mete di paglia" - Poem 5 after "Tra I ruderi d'Elea"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo6:23
  3. 03Poem 6 after "Il respiro di requie" - Poem 7 after "Al tuo senno di avo" - Poem 8 after "Dal castello di Velia" - Poem 9 after "Versante di memorie" - Poem 10 after "L'apologo"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo10:52
  4. 04At Night (two) for "Dove fiorisce l'erica" - Poem 11 after "Il fuso della Moira"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo4:24
  5. 05Finger Games I: "Questa terra epocale"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:42
  6. 06Poem 12 after "La tua ragione di padre"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:35
  7. 07Poem 13 after "Eremi di vigne"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:21
  8. 08At Nightfall for "Sentieri di Parmenide"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:30
  9. 09Poem 14 after "Dopo di te"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:08
  10. 10Classical Form I for "Dove alla baracca" - Poem 15 after "Dove abitava il tempo"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo5:24
  11. 11Poem 16 after "Agosto"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo1:55
  12. 12Poem 17 after "La via solare"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:22
  13. 13Poem 18 after "Più che il vento, il tempo"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:35
  14. 14Fourth Move for "Il passo degli storni"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:38
  15. 15Adagietto for "Le tue sere"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:52
  16. 16Poem 19 after "Il passeraio" - Poem 20 after "E il conto torna"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo4:44
  17. 17Poem 21 after "La via dello Sporgente"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:27
  18. 18Siciliana for "Davanti Porta Rosa"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo1:51
  19. 19Classical Form II for "Tempi di deriva"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo3:00
  20. 20Miniatura for "A Francesca"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:17
  21. 21Elements for "Ode ad Ascea"Luigi Mogrovejo, Francesco D’Ambrosio · Rosalba Di Girolamo & Luigi Mogrovejo2:45

Track timings refer to the digital edition.

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ArtistsLuigi Mogrovejo, Rosalba Di GirolamoBiographies

Luigi Mogrovejo Italian composer and teacher born in 1969. He trained at the 'S. Pietro a Majella' Conservatory in Naples and, at the same time, he followed his passion for rock and pop music by working as an arranger and sound engineer.

Rosalba Di Girolamo, actress and architect. She graduated with honors in Architecture with a thesis on the sacred space in the city of Elea-Velia. Her theatrical training was undertaken in the Krypton Company with Giancarlo Cauteruccio, at the Limonaia Theater school, and with Ugo Chiti, Agustì Humet, Juan Guillen, Augusto Boal, Pippo Delbono, and at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski. Among others, she has worked in theater with Renato Carpentieri, Maurizio De Giovanni, Peppe Lanzetta; and in cinema with Antonio Capuano, Terry Gilliam, and Marco Tullio Giordana.

Album notes

The poetic work of Francesco D’Ambrosio (1926 – 2003) reveals a profound link with his native land, Ascea, the ancient Elea-Velia. His poetry is nourished by simple images, shimmering with a classical beauty, taken from meaning-rich experiences: first and foremost, his family, whose example, which intimately informs almost every lyric, becomes an illuminating light for his entire existence; his native land, the object of incommensurable love, the home of famous thinkers and the repository of antique wisdom; respect for memory and for neighbours, a heritage that is often difficult to…

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The poetic work of Francesco D’Ambrosio (1926 – 2003) reveals a profound link with his native land, Ascea, the ancient Elea-Velia. His poetry is nourished by simple images, shimmering with a classical beauty, taken from meaning-rich experiences: first and foremost, his family, whose example, which intimately informs almost every lyric, becomes an illuminating light for his entire existence; his native land, the object of incommensurable love, the home of famous thinkers and the repository of antique wisdom; respect for memory and for neighbours, a heritage that is often difficult to trace today.
Love for this ‘epochal land’ was the common ground on which the idea of composing a sonorous poem developed, an attempt to sublimate the imaginary plot recast by voice and sound, a tribute to the beauty of a mental place, the soul’s place even before real.

Ascea is a small town in Campania, in the province of Salerno, in which is located the ancient Elea-Velia, founded by the Phoceans in the 6th century B.C. (c. 540). One of Italy’s oldest and most renowned archaeological sites, a Unesco heritage site, it was the seat of the Eleatic philosophical school founded by Parmenides and Zeno. Ancient Hyele, as cited by the sources, had a long history of around two thousand years, during which it was a leading light of civilisation and a reference point for writers, philosophers, poets and scientists; it gained renown among the other Magna-Greek cities already with the Poem on Nature, Parmenides’ Περί Φύσεως and Zeno’s Paradoxes; mentioned also by great Latin writers such as Cicero (epistle to Trebazio Testa), Virgil (Aeneid) and Horace (epistle to Vala), it was also the seat of an ancient Medical School, whose legacy was probably picked up by the first European medical school, the Scuola Medica Salernitana. Today, Ascea is a renowned international tourist resort, located in the National Park of Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni, one of the largest nature parks in Europe.

Poems

Read the poems in Italian and English (PDF)

Recording details

Music & contributors

Composer(s)
Luigi Mogrovejo
Genre
Voice
Instrumentation
Narrator, Piano

Publication

Format
1 Cd
Publication year
2023