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Mauro Mariani, The game. Hell and Paradise. Carrara’s Song of the commonplace, «Il Giornale della Musica», September 12th, 2014
The music of Cristian Carrara doesn't mix it to the words but inserts itself in the pause with measured and shiny interventions, far from psychopathy and deliriums of the protagonist, yet totally tuned in mysterious ways to what happens on stage. Carrara also carves...
Lorenzo Fiorito, Waiting for daybreak at Ravello Festival: an amazing dawn in concert, «Bachtrack» August 13th, 2015
A work of great clarity and simplicity, Carrara’s music reached the audience with its suggestive, rhythmically intense writing, where one can easily find echoes of jazz and film music style. The piece was agreeably performed and the pianist Michelangelo Carbonara and...
Jorge Coli, Great start of the musical season in Sao Paulo, «Concerto», February 12th, 2015
The musical season started very well in Sao Paulo. In early February I got to listen to four formidable concerts. At any rate, once again, on Sunday 8 at the Municipal Theater of St. Paul, John Neschling conducted the Mahler's Ninth. Before, he had the excellent idea...
JUAN DIMAS CÓRDOVA, [TALES FROM THE UNDERGROUND], OFUNAM, Program 5, Musical season 2015
“Tales from the Underground” is a symphonic poem in which, with new and very personal language, the maestro Carrara develops, through small themes, a refined sound texture, in which the voices of the various instrumental families are opposed and interact, by creating...
ELENA FORMICA, Oliver Twist, dalla parte del cuore, «Gazzetta di Parma», December 18th, 2012
[Elena Formica, Oliver Twist, dalla parte del cuore [Oliver Twist, from the heart], 18 December 2012] . . . Cristian Carrara's unsettling and melancholy music, with distinctive British elements [...] As though shivering with a malarial fever, the notes of the...
ANDREA MILANESI, Liber Mundi di Cristian Carrara today’s music talk to everyone «Avvenire», p. 33, April 15th, 2012
[Andrea Milanesi, Liber Mundi by Cristian Carrara contemporary music that speaks to everyone, 15 April 2012] Cristian Carrara's music has an extremely precious quality, ever-rarer among contemporary composers: he speaks directly to the heart of the listener, bypassing...
Liber Mundi by Cristian Carrara, «Città Nuova», April 3rd 2012
[Liber Mundi by Cristian Carrara, 3 April 2012] Carrara's most recent work is original, not only in terms of its themes - personal, profound - but also because of the brilliant clarity of the music. It moves from the sweet “Mater”, to the bright “Face to Face”, from...
ELIDE BERGAMASCHI,The Ocean by Cristian Carrara, «Il cittadino», p. 31, Wednesday, June 11th, 2011
[Elide Bergamaschi, L’Oceano [The Ocean] by Cristian Carrara, Wednesday 11 June 2011] A piano diary, [is] an exquisitely interna¬l journey across an ocean of paper; fragmentary reference to an everything, the structure and meaning of which, perhaps, may only be...
PAOLA PARRI, A Piano Diary, www.pianosolo.it, April 20th, 2011
[From the portal: pianosolo.it: review of A Piano Diary, by Paola Parri, 20 April 2011] A record which is not anchored to a genre, but which proceeds along an exclusively musical discourse, in which music knows no classificatory limiters and can transform mundane...
ELIDE BERGAMASCHI,Christian travel «Il cittadino», March 31th, 2010
[Elide Bergamaschi, Il viaggio di Christian [Christian's Journey], 31 March 2010] Narrative and choral, epic in its broad gesture of dividing the scene between one and all, between I and not I, the double articulation of Tracce [Traces] – Destinazione del sangue...