Following the success of Intrecci - New Compositions and Arrangements for Solo Guitar (Stradivarius, 2024), winner of the Amadeus

d'Oro award, Giacomo Susani presents his new recording project Under a Crescent Moon, an album that continues and deepens the exploration

of the expressive possibilities of the classical guitar. The CD is the winner of the "Per Chi Crea" grant by SIAE and the Italian

Ministry of Culture (MiC), 2024 edition, as was the previous album Intrecci, which won the 2023 edition. Unlike the previous work,

structured in distinct pairs of pieces, Under a Crescent Moon takes on a more unified character. All the music-original compositions

and arrangements-was conceived, studied, and recorded within a highly concentrated period of just over one month, giving the album

a strong linguistic and expressive coherence. The three original works share a consistency of language that defines a distinctive style,

while remaining sufficiently flexible to convey clearly defined expressive nuances and, consequently, ever-changing musical qualities.

The album's title is drawn from a haiku by Matsuo Basho and serves as a poetic invitation to delve into the intangible and evocative

sonorities of the guitar, it's resonances, and the richness of it's sound. As the artist explains:

"The guitar is not only the recipient of my abstract ideas, but a generative engine of visions, sounds, and form: at once a poetic inspiration

and concrete destination of the creative act"

The album features three large-scale original compositions:

Due appunti - structured in two movements (Preludio and Toccata), the piece moves from the mysterious and questioning character of

the Preludio to the brilliant and highly fluid Toccata, which radically transforms the music's character from suspended to assertive and

forward-driving.

Under a Crescent Moon - six musical miniatures inspired by as many haiku by Matsuo Basho, translating poetic imagery and content

into sound. These brief yet densely expressive poems inspire six musical moments, each aiming to depict not only the image evoked by

the words, but also their emotional resonance in the composer.

Suite a uno - a five-movement suite (Preludio, Arabesque, Interludio, Corale, Finale) built upon a single harmonic structure, maintaining

a clear formal coherence.

Arrangements of masterpieces by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel frame and permeate the original compositions: from Ravel's

Prelude in A minor to selected piano pieces from Debussy's Children's Corner and Preludes (Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, The Little

Shepherd, Golliwogg's Cakewalk, La Fille aux cheveux de lin). These are not simply transcriptions, but true arrangements that engage

deeply with the idiomatic nature of the guitar.

The recording was made using a remarkable historical guitar built in 1926 by Spanish luthier Domingo Esteso. Now celebrating it's 100th

anniversary, the instrument displays extraordinary elegance, depth, and nobility-an ideal medium for these sonorities and a powerful

source of inspiration for their imagination.