In terms of the language, Carrara’s music could be signed up in the neoromantic trend of which composers that, refusing the experimentalisms of twentieth’s century vanguards, aim for recovery an immediate communicativeness trough attitudes of traditional writing, from a taste of a well- defined melody to the tonal harmony with modalisms, until the regularity of tonal structure. There is a certain minimalist influence in the obstinate repetitions of some rhythmic and melodic forms, but without the complexes procedures of elaboration typical of this trend. You know, a music low by appearance, simple and direct, written to please at first listen without put intellettual complications. The titles and the change of mood of the short movements suggest the necessity to go beyond the appearance, to search hidden meanings behind a path so straightforward that it seem like obvious. Really, in terms of the contents, Carrara means to speak about the anxieties and the neurosis of our time like the aspiration to get rid of them through the memory of the past or the achievement of a new energy able to trascend them, with the recurring presence of a clarinet, almost invested with the function to evoke the heartfelt voice of the composer himself. Candidly clear, but really very cunning in the dose of its elementary constituents, Carrara’s music has in this cd a return at the same time stubbornly sharper and passionate by Solisti Aquilani […]

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