III Movimento – Extended Version – 2023

Tracklist:

A Dance Opera For Symphonic-Rock Orchestra.

Tony Carnevale’s Third Album Release (1999)

This new edition, released on vinyl and CD, is an extended and analog remastered version, created to achieve two main goals: first, to give the album its own identity, as the previous version was part of a triple box set that included the first two albums Risonanze (1990) and La Vita Che Grida (1995). These three albums contained the music for the soundtrack of the eponymous opera, with choreography by Elisabetta Melchiorri, which was performed at the Cairo Opera House and the Teatro Olimpico in Rome. The second goal was to reunite the piece Incompiuta, originally created for a choreography by Maria Teresa Dal Medico, which had been split into two parts — with the first part appearing on this album and the second part on La Vita Che Grida. The album also includes an original reworking, officially recognized by SIAE, of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. This new release, which came out on December 16, 2022, as a limited-edition CD, sounds different from the original due to the analog remastering and marks the first collaboration between Tony Carnevale and SOUNDTRACK Records.

1. Danza Sul Vulcano – Version II
   · Originally composed for an art exhibition, this piece inadvertently draws a “prog” reference to the title of the famous Genesis track. Initially released in a symphonic version on Risonanze, it has since evolved into a more rhythmic-symphonic arrangement.
   Igrayne

2. Igrayne
This piece is a fantastical portrayal, loosely based on the character from the movie Excalibur (the queen who will later become King Arthur’s mother). In the film, Igrayne dances to celebrate peace, but her sensual movements spark an overwhelming desire in King Uther Pendragon, driving him back to war just to possess her. The composition, featuring electric guitar, strings, and synths, is primarily contrapuntal, divided into two distinct parts.

3. Quadri
A reworking of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by Tony Carnevale, with an interpolation of a quote from A Night on Bald Mountain by the same composer.

4. Il Cammino

‘A track created for the soundtrack of a production on Benvenuto Cellini (later realised by Battiato), it evokes the image of a long collective journey, a human caravan travelling without a precise destination’.

(Tony Carnevale)

5. Incompiuta, Pt.1

Also referred to as “Donne” (“Women”), this piece is linked to a choreography that focuses entirely on the female aspect.

6. Incompiuta, Pt.2
   Known as “Uomini” (“Men”), this part is associated with a male-centered choreography.
   Originally released on “La Vita Che Grida” , it is now brought together with Pt. 1.

‘Incompiuta was composed from a choreography and synchronised with music, created directly on the movements of the dancing bodies, without prior writing.’

(Tony Carnevale)

As with almost all other choreography scores, it has become an original characteristic of the artist.

THE ORCHESTRA

All pieces were composed, orchestrated, directed and produced by Tony Carnevale, except ‘Pictures’ composed by Musorgsky – Carnevale

Reviews:
– Doppio Jazz a cura di Roberto Biasco

– Rotters’ Club a cura di Giuseppe di Spirito

– Prog & Dintorni a cura di Pas Scarpato

– Artists And bands a curated by Gianluca Livi

– Le petit monde du Rock Progressif Italien a cura di Louis de Ny

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