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ELIDE BERGAMASCHI, Blood Destination. Icons, «Mantova chiama Garda», December 8th, 2009
[Elide Bergamaschi, Destinazione del sangue [Destination of blood]. Icone] Listening and relistening to young composer Cristian Carrara's invitation to embark on a journey of the soul in his recent CD published by Stradivarius [..] we are left with a sense of...
MARIO DAL BELLO, Blood Destination. Icons, «Città Nuova online», November 20th, 2009
[MARIO DAL BELLO, Destinazione del sangue [Destination of blood]. Icone, 20 november 2009] The CD presents 8 pieces by the young composer. Pleasant music which is not, however, superficial, the composition demonstrates the author's undoubted capacity to accurately...
CLAUDIO STRINATI, La piccola vedetta lombarda, [From the CD booklet ed. Tactus, april 2013]
From the CD booklet: La Piccola Vedetta Lombarda [The Little Lombardan Lookout], Tactus: It is with absolute engagement that Carrara tackles the important theme of the morality of Art, a morality which he believes in unrhetorically and which he abides by in all...
FLAVIO EMILIO SCOGNA, La piccola vedetta lombarda, [From the CD booklet ed. Tactus, april 2013]
From the CD booklet: La Piccola Vedetta Lombarda [The Little Lombardan Lookout], Tactus: His writing, which is apparently and deceptively simple, holds many secrets [...] Unlike much of today's music, his cryptic quality does not lie in the drafting [...], a bit like...
FEDERICO CAPITONI, Cristian Carrara and Clarity Virtue [From the CD booklet Liber Mundi, ed. Arts, 2012, p. 13]
From the CD booklet: Liber Mundi, ARTS ...the regular heartbeat of the violoncellos underpins the prayer in Mater, a composition for string orchestra that recalls the atmospheres evoked by Arvo Part, but that is interspersed with that typically Italian melodic impulse...
TIZIANA AFFORTUNATO, Crossroads, [From the CD booklet ed. VDM Records, 2007]
From the CD booklet: Crossroads, VDM Records (2007) Pavel Florenskij's words are considered by the composer to be absolutely comprehensive on the matter of the meaning of Luce: “(…) but Light is beautiful in and of itself, transcending any composition and its form,...
MICHELE MANZOTTI, High on pedals, when classic music tells sports, «Il Corriere Musicale», September 10th, 2013
[Michele Manzotti, Alto sui pedali [High on the pedals], when classical music describes sport, 10 September 2013] …In terms of the music, Battistelli explained how Carrara, the 36-year-old Friulian composer, was chosen: "He is an author who writes with great ease. At...
ANDREA MILANESI, Infinite melodies, «Tracce», n. 6, June 2012
[Andrea Milanesi, Melodie infinite [Infinite melodies], Tracce no. 6, June 2012] Among the sources of inspiration for the pieces featured on Cristian Carrara's new disc are the novels of Dostoevskij and the Holy Bible (the Liber Mundi to which the title refers), but...