Viozzi/ Gallo - Complete Music for SoloBorn in the northern port city of Trieste in 1912, the Italian composer Giulio Viozzi worked and lived in the region throughout his life before his death in Verona in 1984. He composed in a modal, melodic, diatonic language inflected by Bartok but essentially shaped by native traditions of cantabile writing whether for instruments or voices. Viozzi's music for the theatre won success and performances throughout his lifetime, notably the opera Il sasso

and confrontational live performances

one would be hard pressed not to find songs which speak to the wounded soul

NEVER BEFORE SEEN and B

even on the tracks with no beats

whose libretto

it is now available on vinyl for the firsttime from Blank Forms Editions

has brought together a couple of heavyweights for his first album with Berlin Classics

their first CD is now available

The intellectual and cultural heritage of that time is reflected in his music - also

Alan Freed

Her husband's death prompted her retirement in 1963 back to Naples

I knew we had to do something together