Demoni e fantasmi notturni della città di Perla (1996)
Psicomusica su disegni di Alfred Kubin
Musical form: musical theatre - chamber opera
Movement/Structure: Introduction and 16 pieces (see Annotations)
Instrumentation: flute/piccolo/bass flute, clarinet or sax/bassoon or bass clarinet, horn, cornet, piano, percussions (tub.bells, drums, bass drum, sleigh bells, tam tam (big and small), gong (big), cow bells, side drum, W-block, suspended cymbal, triangle, Glockenspiel, celesta, rainsticks of Cactaceae), violin, cello, double bass, record tape, soprano, rec. voice (male)
Duration: 75'
Year init.: 1996
Year final: 1997
Year rev.: 1999
Literary sources: Alfred Kubin, L'altra parte (The other Side); Joh. Wolfgang Goethe, Faust; Georg Trakl, Gedichte (poetry)
Iconographic sources: Alfred Kubin, mainly from "Dämonen und Nachtgesichte" (1925) and from other collections.
- Selfportrait
- Tod und Landstreicher (Death and vagabond)
- Die Stadt gen Osten (The town to East)
- Der Wanderer (The wayfarer)
- Stadt Perla (City of Perle)
- Halluzination (Hallucination)
- Adoration (Adoration)
-Pateras Kopf (Head of Patera)
- Träume (Dreams)
- Der Tod holt den Zeichner (The Death takes the designer)
- Damokles
- Der Mensch The man
- Kronos
- Die Mondsüchtige
- Mondlicht
- Gerhard Hauptmann Fasching (Carneval)
- Jede Nacht besucht uns ein Traum (Every night a dream come to visit us)
- Neue Träume (New dreams)
- Die grosse Glocke (The big bell)
- Das Hünengrab (The tomb of the giant)
- Überschwemmung (Inundation)
- Der Krieg (The war)
- Der grosse Kopf (The big head)
- Der Tritt (The step)
- Der Untergang (The decline)
- Wahnsinn (Madness)
- Das Grab (Tomb)
- Dämmerung (Dawn) with audio track (attachments: see also the single pieces)
Dedication: a Monika con affetto
Annotations: Italian, German and Croatian versions with slightly different instrumentation (Croatian version without Wahnsinn).
Instruments of the single pieces:
Introduzione - cornet soloist - rec. Voice.
1. Esorcismo del serpente marino bass flute, flute.
2. Der Wanderer for piano - rec. Voice.
3. Strassenlied for bassoon/sax, cello/(sax)/bass clarinet, piano/accordeon- rec. Voce.
4. Allucinazione for clarinet/sax, horn/bassoon, violin, cello, (contra bass), piano, tam tam with iron -voce rec.
5. La luna esce di scena for flute, violin/viola, contra bass, piano, percussion ( tam tam, triangle, suspended cymb.) - rec. Voice.
6. Trakl Lieder (8) for soprano and piano (Immer wieder, Stille wohnt, Wieder kehrt, Zitternd flattern, Im Korn sich ernste, Ein altes Wiegenlied, Der Knab, Formlose Spottgestalten).
7. Damokles for piano, sax/clarinet, bassoon, horn/sax F, tam tam with iron, violin, cello, contra bass- rec. Voice.
8. Der Mensch for clarinet/sax, horn/bassoon, (mil. Drum, W-block, suspended cymbal), piano, violin, cello, contra bass - rec. Voice.
9. Kronos for piano clarinet/sax, horn, bassoon, bass drum, tam tam, violin, cello, contra bass - rec. Voice.
10. Gretchenstube per soprano e pinao - rec.voice.
11. Carnevale for clarinet/sax, bassoon, piano, violin, cello, contra bass - rec. Voice.
12. Ogni notte ho fatto un sogno for clarinet/sax, sax/bassoon, mil. Drum, tam tam, suspended cymbal, piano, violin, cello, contra bass - rec. Voice.
13. Grande campana for piano/contra bass/tam tam, percuss./ev. bells - rec. Voice
14. Wahnsinn for clarinet, horn, piano, violin, cello - rec. Voice.
15. Das Grab (variations on Richard Strauss' Ophelia, op. 67,3) for clarinet/sax, horn/bassoon, piano, violin, cello, contra bass.
16. Dämmerung e Böser Traum for (flute), clarinet/sax, (bassoon), horn, piano, mil. Drums, tub. Bells, gong (big), bells, tam tam, rain violin, cello, contra bass, rainsticks of Cactaceae, celesta or Glockenspiel, Gong (big), cow bells.
Recordings: Demoni e fantasmi notturni della città di Perla, Audio Ars Studio Trieste, AAS 025
Premiere: Chromas Ensemble, Giampaolo Coral conductor, Luisa Sello flutes, Manuela Kriscak soprano, Giancarlo Cortesi actor, stage directors Carlo de Incontrera and Livio Schiozzi (design) - Mittelfest 1999 (18.7.1999)
SIAE: 991780737-00