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The CD entitled Contrappassi sees the two protagonists, Leonardo Zunica on piano and Leandro Lo Bianco

on electric guitar, engaged in compositions by contemporary authors, with pieces that find poetic-musical inspiration

in the fascinating and complex world of Dante. A program with broad musical visions that transport

you to an unexpected soundscape, with the two performers who give life to moments and atmospheres of surprising

suggestion. The CD's lineup opens with the Sonata n. 1 "DANTE SONATA" for piano by the Danish

composer Poul Ruders (born in 1949), a work divided into two distinct movements with contrasting characteristics.

The roots of the Dante Sonata are not only linked to Dante's canticles but also to the author's admiration

for Liszt's Sonata in B minor. Dante, therefore, seen through the eyes of Liszt. The piece by Ruders is followed

by MALEBOLGE for electric guitar and piano TRE CANZONI DI FRANCESCO LANDINI for piano with electric

guitar ad libitum by the Italian composer Gabrio Taglietti, a journey that leads to the VIII circle of Hell. Taglietti

wanted to alternate his three pits with transcriptions for piano, and in the last case for piano and electric guitar,

of as many ballads by Francesco Landini, a composer of the fourteenth century, the genre in which Landini excelled.

This singular listening journey ends with a piece by Leandro Lo Bianco, here in the role of composer as

well as performer: THREE IMPROVISATIONS ON R. RAUSCHENBERG "DANTE'S INFERNO" for solo electric

guitar and electronic devices.