LARIO (2025) – ca. 15′
Written in tribute to Marco Enrico Bossi on the 100° anniversary of his death
I. Prelude, II. Serenade, III. Scherzo, IV. Adagio, V. Dance, VI. Finale
Instrumentation: FULL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PICCOLO, 2 FLUTES, 2 OBOES, ENGLISH HORN, 2 CLARINETS, BASS CLARINET, 2 BASSOONS, CONTRABASSOON, 4 HORNS, 2 TRUMPETS, 2 TROMBONES, TUBA, PERCUSSION (2 players), TIMPANI (doubling 3rd percussionist), HARP, CELESTA, VIOLINS I & II, VIOLAS, CELLOS, DOUBLE BASSES
License: © 2025 Alexandre Casaccia (SACEM). All rights reserved
PROGRAM NOTE
Lario, for full symphony orchestra, was composed in tribute to composer Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) on the centenary of his death. The six movement suite offers a colourful evocation of the landscapes and atmospheres of Lake Como—a setting dear to Bossi, who, in the peace of his home in Breccia, composed for the last forty years of his life.
At times lyrical and intimate, but often direct and ironic, the writing draws on chamber music techniques, avoiding any expressionistic excess while seeking—beyond descriptive elements—a lightness of tone and instrumentation. Lario is organized as a sequence of contrasting moods—ranging from the mysterious contemplation of the lake’s stillness to playful scenes of rural life—each interconnected by a dense mosaic of recurring fixed ideas: a kind of formal pointillism that avoids obvious developmental relationships but asserts instead, through its omnipresence, the interpenetration of each individual element. As the composer put it, “each of its parts is a distorted reflection of the whole”: a play of reflections that finds its fullest allegory in the mirror-like surface of lake Lario.
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