Ultimo Cielo is a musical piece commissioned for an amateur orchestra. It differs from a classical commission, the aim of which would have been to enrich an orchestra's repertoire. Ultimo Cielo first and foremost focuses on providing amateurs, irrespective of their level and their commitment, with an opportunity to experience a commissioned composition. The theme of the commission questions the status of the artist and of the amateur in art.
The piece is called Ultimo Cielo, in homage to the Italian painter Pinot Gallizio, who founded the Situationist International after meeting Asger Jorn. The painter's work, his singular life and his unique status (formerly a chemist, he began to paint at the age of 45) lend the theme originality, allowing the composer to dramatise with sensitivity rather than conceptually, the relationship between spontaneity and automatism. The piece is composed for an amateur jazz orchestra (flute, piccolo, oboe, soprano and bass clarinets, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, trumpets, trombones, horns, tuba, guitar and piano), a quintet (guitar, double bass, clarinet, trumpet, drums).
credits
released February 25, 2020
Composed and arranged by Battista Lena
Ovni Tender conducted by Frank Assemat
and
Gabriele Mirabassi clarinet
Fulvio Sigurtà trumpet
Battista Lena guitar
Daniele Mencarelli bass
Stefano Tamborrino drums
L’OVNI’TendeR :
Flute/Piccolo: Emilie Carayol.
Flutes: Nathalie Cassina, Margot Dubois, Maxime Giraud, Béatrice Socher.
Hautbois: Patrick Létévé, Marion Roche (soliste).
Clarinettes: Peggy Barbot, Lysa Barbot, Karine Berthereau, Dominique Chabanne, Serge Chamelot, Eugénie Gouzien, Flora Hecquet, Nathalie Lemaître, Méline Parent, Sandra Mévrel, Aude Ropert.
Clarinettes basses : Roxane Dernoncour, Christophe Michel.
Alto Sax : Ylona Barbot, Guillaume Christophel*, Jonathan Robert* (soliste), François Vattement.
Tenor sax : Régis Visani.
Barytone sax : François Dauvignac.
Trompettes : Jean-Claude Dupont, Christophe Duran.
Cors : Frédéric Foata*, Lui Muhr.
Trombones : Guillaume Cubells, Sylvain Hertel-Mear*.
Tuba : Michel Hecquet.
Guitare : Benjamin Vernet.
feat.
Giuseppe Pelura: Flute
David Brutti: Saxes
Jonathan Williams: Cor
* Musiciens/tuteurs des enfants présents sur les différents pupitres.
Remerciements pour leur attention et/ou participation à cette aventure : Baptiste Bouquin, Florent Corbou, Mathilde Fèvre, Fidel Fourneyron, François Merville, Martin Nicaud, Marc Régnier, Yann Shan, François Thuillier...
Recorded in November 2014 at Studio Sextant, Paris. Sound engineer Vincent Mahey
and Nuccia, Rome. Sound engineer Giuseppe Vadalà.
Mixed by Vincent Mahey
Mastered at PSS Studios by Tita Lonzi
Artwork by Angelica Lena
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