Fourteen important musicians coming from Sicily, Greece, Ireland and Holland, compose original variations of Sicilo’s theme, a poem engraved on a two thousand old stele. This cd is a real event that involves great European musicians, reviewed by the most important Italian papers.

Stone, I become image;
Seikilos placed me here:
Long-living sign of immortal memory.
However long you live, so shine,
do not grow dark:
Short is life;
Time consumes it.

Seikilos to Euterpe

In Greek, Seikilos means “Sicilian”. He was more or less a contemporary of Jesus Christ, and also lived in Asia Minor. [...] Over each syllabe of the song, the note on wich to intonate it is marked, as well as its rhythmic value. [...] Oir furteen composers, taking up the invitation thrown out by the guitarist, used the short ancient melody as a theme, a genetic cell of their elaborations: as a nomos, the ancient Hellenes and Seikilos himself would have said, i.e. as a poetic law, a melic modulus, a pervasive aria. Some of theme quote it patently, while others conceal it as a substruction. Their musical constitutions are different, as are the outcomes in terms of sound. [...] All there compositions were conceived for the guitar of DARIO MACALUSO, an heir in name and fact to the instrument of Apollo and Orpheus.

Tracklist

  1. Giovanni d’Aquila Epitaffio
  2. Giovanni Sollima EDS
  3. Giuseppe Violante Elegia per Sicilo
  4. Roderik de Man Because life is too short 
  5. Mario Modestini Harmonicorale 1-2
  6. Giovanni Damiani Quanto vivi, spendi!
  7. Marco Betta Memoria dell’epitaffio di Sicilo
  8. Dimitri Nicolau Oson Zhs Faìnou
  9. Martijn Voorvelt Stele
  10. Lucio Garau Variazioni su una vecchia melodia
  11. Gaetano Randazzo Sicilo ad Euterpe
  12. Benjamin Dwyer Hecos de Seikilos 
  13. Armando Gagliano Memoria di marmo
  14. Roberto Mosquera Stele di Sicilo

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    BIOGRAPHY

    Dario Macaluso was born in 1968. He studied classic guitar at the Bellini Conservatory in Palermo with G. Violante, and took his diploma with the maximum mark in 1991. He tookperfection courses with Vladimir Mikulka, David Russel, Manuel Barrueco and Roberto Aussel. He also attended courses on musical interpretation with musicians like Gustav Leonhardt and Walter van Hauwe. He has won awards in antional and international guitar competitions: in Messina in 1994, in Lecco in 1995 and in Savone in 1997. From 1994 to 1998 he perfected his guitar and chamber mussic studies under the guidance of LexEisenhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, obtaining a diploma as an Uitvoerend Musicus (diploma for concerto performance) with 10 and a special mention (a mark never previously given at the Guitar Department in Amsterdam). He has done numorous concerts as a soloist, with vorious ensembles (guitar duo; flute and guitar; cembalo and guitar; voice and guitar; guitar trios; mixed trio and others) and with orchestras in various European countries, in Canada and Japan. He has worked with internationally famous musicians like the Loeki Stardast Quartet, the Nieuwe Ensemble and Eleonore Pameijer. He has also played for musical associations like the Cefalù Amici della Musica; the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; De Ijsbreker and Beurse van Berlage in Amsterdam; Nordic House in Reykyavik; the Yamaha Foundation in Amamatsu (Japan); and the Hamilton Place Studio Theatre. In 2001 he did a solo recital at Cambridge University. As a guitar teacher he has worked at various music schools in Holland and at the Bellini Conservatory in Palermo, teaching courses in chamber music for guitarists. Lastly he has taken a degree in classical languages and literature at Palermo University.

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