Bach & Blues
for clarinet quartet
Roberto Di Marino
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When I was a student at the Conservatory of Music I had the idea of merging the academic forms, such as the prelude, the toccata, the fugue and so on, with the rhythmic and melodic features of jazz. Bach & Blues is the first example of this hybridization of different styles.

Review

...Roberto Di Marino ha scritto, per quartetto di clarinetti, un brano molto divertente ed estremamente ben congegnato.
E' una fuga che, come dice il titolo (Bach & Blues), sposa la canonicità della forma contrappuntistica con il sapore e il colore della musica negro-americana...

[...well worth a look, is the fun and extremely well-constructed, new clarinet quartet written by Roberto Di Marino.
It is a fugue that, as is stated in the title (Bach & Blues), merges the rigourous rules of the counterpoint with the spice and color of the Afro-American music...]

Enrico Blatti, from i Fiati n.15, agosto-settembre 1996.

First Performance: June 1, 1988 - Auditorium del Conservatorio, Riva del Garda (TN), Italy
Performers: Claudio Dorigato, Vanessa Weber, Andrea Lorenzoni, Andrea Vezzoli
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