by Mauricio Annunziata

No. 1 , Op. 28 (Buenos Aires, 1989)

No. 2 , Op. 48 (Francavilla al Mare, 2001)

No. 3 , Op. 49 (Rome, 2001)

No. 4 , Op. 57 (Buenos Aires, 1986)

  I resorted to the denomination «Anocheciendo» («Growing dark») to leave the traditional one and consolidated well of «Noctuno» in intact state. Investigating on this sort, I have stated that was not indeed the night that inspired such compositions, but well the dusk, the slope of the sun. Then, I preferred to adopt my own denomination. «Anocheciendo», very romantic and expressive character, with a Buenosairean smooth and sweet touch of color, on approval takes advantage of the resources and sonoridades the piano, putting the technical ability of the performer.

When I composed the first, I was seventeen years old, and I was very enamored with my piano of tail of the wonderful colors that inspired the effect to me that evokes the brightness of stars by a game of agreed which soon it will be accompanied by a seductive rate. After a virtuosity climax, the calm will be reestablished.

The second, composed almost thirteen years after the previous one, parallelly describes the process of the phenomenon of the human «dream» in its two meaning: one physiological and another one more like a metaphor. The phases of this fantastic process are: the initial where we began to leave the conscious state where our illusions still seems to be real and our more barren thoughts. The dream is intensified until obtaining climax total of illusions that at the moment sudden seem to break and after a brief agitation, everything returns like before, to the reality to conclude the work tenderly reason why we can remember of the most turbulent phase.

Of poliphonycal structure and many touching resistances, the third, maintain their vitality until the suggestive end. The structure is a phrase that is repeated, a variation of this, a central part that can be interpreted like reciting. In order to return to the initial idea one resorts to a virtuosity figuration. The work has its aim with unusual pianissimo.

The fourth, does not correspond chronologically with the collection, since it is a composition of my sixteen years that in 2002 was one of my «encores» of a recital mine and who the enthusiasm of the public took to me to include it in the collection. Of youthful character, the melody consists of one expressive that thanks to the technical possibilities of the piano becomes rich of floreos. In the central section, a new melodycal element under the swing arises from the arpeggi. They follow a summary varied and delicadísima coda where a trillo length predominates.

Mauricio Annunziata

 Barcelona, Juny 2002