For “Etymo”, Luca Francesconi has joined forces with the cream of the crop of the new music scene: Barbara Hannigan, who has been featured on CDs by Nonesuch and Naxos, is accompanied on the title track by the musicians of the ensemble intercontemporain, Spanish Guitar virtuoso Pablo Márquez guests on “A fuoco, 4° studio sulla memoria” and Benny Sluchin is the shining solo star on “Animus”. Assisting Luca Fransconi in realising the electronic parts, meanwhile, is a delegation by famous French experimental electronics institute IRCAM.

A short extract reveals “Etymo” to be a dramatic, dynamic and atmospheric work: “Just like Baudelaire, Luca Francesconi appears to be crying out in the apparent stasis in the middle of the work: ‘The beautiful life! The beautiful life!’”, Roche writes, “Then everything is reversed in a mirror process, with the energy being reborn of its own antimatter, or perhaps of its memory.”

The release of “Etymo” is just one highlight in a year full of upbeat activity for Francesconi, who enjoyed a long run of performances well into July of this year – including collaborations with the likes of Hakan Hardenberger.

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