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  • The Shadow and the Silence - Homage to Pier Paolo Passolini

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    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Featuring the second orchestral composition of Centazzo, dated 1985: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini. This concert sets a new standard in contemporary music blending Eastern and Western concepts using Balinese-like ostinatos, romantic melodies and contemporary harmonies.

  • Cjant

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    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Released originally as double LP: Cjant - First Concert For Small Orchestra Based Upon Friulian Folk Songs, is Centazzo's first orchestral composition combining a string section along with the original Mitteleuropa (Free Jazz) Orchestra featuring Theo Jörgensmann, Gianluigi Trovesi and many others. A fundamental chapter in the group's history.

    Bologna’s Mitteleuropa Orchestra brought energy to Centazzo’s favorite stylist sensibilities with fluid timbres and chromatic nuances. Unlike the more anarchistic Globe Unity or ICP Orchestras though, Centazzo’s composedly hand makes sure each piece has a definite beginning, end and middle. (jazzword.com)

  • The Complete Recording vol.1

    501A

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume one of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • The Complete Recording vol.2

    501B

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume two of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • The Complete Recording vol.3

    501C

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume three of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • The Complete Recording vol.4

    501D

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume four of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • The Complete Recording vol.5

    501E

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume five of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • The Complete Recording vol.6

    501F

    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    Mitteleuropa Orchestra was a project commissioned in 1979 by the City Cultural Affairs department in Bologna. The formation was flexible and variable, depending on the performance requirements, but it always retained its essential characteristics thanks to a fixed nucleus of musicians. The orchestra's physiognomy distanced it from the "classical" jazz big bands and aligned it more with contemporary chamber music formations. Using my experience of music making in small combinations, with strong tone-color characteristics, I achieved a fusion of diverse cultures (western classical, oriental and Afro-American) in a rigorously controlled musical structure, integrating written orchestral passages with aleatoric sections, creating ample space in which soloists could improvise in "controlled" situations. Within the orchestra the various personalities of the artists, interacted to create a particular stylistic mix which became the hallmark oft this ensemble.
    This is a volume six of newly revised collection of 6 CD's contains almost all the materials recorded by the orchestra including a week of broadcasting for the Italian radio recorded in Rome and much more.

  • Doctor Faustus

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    Artist: Andrea Centazzo Mitteleuropa Orchestra

    Label: ICTUS Records

    In 1983, I conducted Mitteleuropa at the international festival "Ravenna Jazz" in a performance of Doctor Faustus, a suite which has remained unpublished for 25 years, written in honor of trombonist-Albert Mangellsdorf, who was a soloist with the orchestra for the performance. Here finally you have the chance to listen to some music from that historical night. Mitteleuropa Orchestra was born from my interest in expanding my composing experiences: so I got together a group of talented young musicians together with several big-name soloists for an orchestral project that I decided to call Mitteleuropa in homage to what for me was, at that time, the ideal center of my own cultural background.
    From that point on the Orchestra became an established group and for five years, participated in the major international festivals and recorded a LP featuring my works composed specifically for the group. During those years a number of important soloists, both European and American, from a wide variety of musical backgrounds were guests of the Orchestra. Among many others, they included Radu Malfatti and Albert Mangelsdorf (whom you can hear on tracks #6 and #7), Mark Dresser, Martyn Mayes, Paolo Fresu and others, not to mention the great steady soloists, core of the orchestra. (Andrea Centazzo)