Reviews on note all’Empedocle
The young guest composer Giorgio Netti’s note all’Empedocle is a modestly magnificent piece by a composer whose knowing marks him as much older. Again and again the ear is led back into a work of quietly astonishing structure, tracking instruments that move through each other as the eye and hand takes in a pieces of crystal. Meticulous yet liberating: somehow, suddenly you are placed half the way down the Volcano. Within the complexity lies an intimacy of inclusion. Shape has a pulse, and span-in-time. At one point, Elisabeth Drake and I find our hands conducting in sync as if we share an arm. These players, strangers, are as close as my breathing allows.
Zsuzsanna Sobosly Moore
[Real time at Melbourne Festival 01/1998]
Exemplarische Interpretationen
Die Schweizer hatten also einiges zu bieten an diesem Festival, das darf wohl ohne Chauvinismus herausgestrichen werden. Auch mit der Präsenz des Ensembles Collegium Novum Zürich, das einige der besten Interpretationen schuf. Nicht nur von Schweizer Werken: Das extrem schwierige Ensemblewerk «Note all'Empedocle» des Mailänders Giorgio Netti beispielsweise erfuhr eine Aufführung, die zeigte, wie dieser Komponist aus feinsten Bauteilen Zusammenhänge erstellt. Skulpturale musikalische Gestalten, die mitunter eine naturhafte Qualität haben und gleichsam einfach da sind, hat er geschaffen. Dann plötzlich liess er die statische Form in eine narrativ-dramatische kippen - ein spannendes Werk.
Alfred Zimmerlin
[28 April 2004, 02:12, Neue Zürcher Zeitung]
The Huber was preceded by Atanasia Tzanou’s moving shapes of a wonderous spell, for six instruments and Giorgio Netti’s note all’empedocle, also for ensemble. The former reflected the influence of impressionism, at least partly through its scoring, including flute and harp; the latter, in a revised version, was one of the composer’s more satisfying pieces, though not as arresting as his string quartet, heard in Huddersfield in 2002.
John Warnaby
http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/festivals/international/witten.htm