Massimo Coen: "Talking Violin N.3"per violino solo

Massimo Coen (Rome, 11 March 1933 - Rome, 23 February 2017): "Talking Violin N.3"


Massimo Coen (Rome, 11 March 1933 - Rome, 23 February 2017) was an Italian violinist, musician and composer.

Founder of the group I Solisti di Roma in 1961, he collaborates with important exponents of the cultured musical avant-garde, especially in the context of Nuova Consonanza (from 1960) and of the Roman association Beat '72 (1964). In 1963 he founded the Quartetto Nuova Musica, an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music. In 1979 he began his career as a composer, with particular attention to the new languages ​​of string music. Also in the 1970s, Massimo Coen was a member of the Board of Directors of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, of the Italian Musicians Union and of the A.I.M.A.S. (Italian Association of Self-managed and Experimental Musical Complexes). In the 1980s, Coen's activity diversified between theater (La Zattera di Babele), research on Futurism (National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome) and discography. In the 90s collaborations in the jazz field intensified, while he continued his activity as an avant-garde composer and musician. From 1996 he began to work on the recovery of his Jewish roots through collaborations with his son Gabriele Coen, the discovery of Klezmer music and the revival of authors such as Salomone Rossi, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ernst Bloch and Elio Piattelli. In the last part of his career, Massimo Coen supports the need for a recovery of the linguistic elements of the past, flanked by extra-cultured popular languages, without denying the research and achievements of the avant-garde.

Discography

QUARTETTO NUOVA MUSICA

1969 - Vieri Tosatti - Concerto for viola and orchestra; string quartet (Edibi)
1972 - New Music for String Quartet (Mainstream)
Quartet of the Italian Chamber Society

1978 - The contemporary quartet (Italy - Fonit Cetra)

I SOLISTI DI ROMA

1970 -I SOLISTI DI ROMA - Chamber Music of the XVII & XVIII Centuries (SR)
1972 - The Soloists of Rome - Tuscany 1700 (RCA)
1972 - I Solisti di Roma - Venice 1700 (RCA)
1985 - Goffredo Petrassi (Edipan)
1992 - Eduardo Carlo Natoli - End of Millennium Music (Bubi Classic)
1995 - Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Guitar Chamber Works (Musikstrasse)
1995 - Arias by Farinelli (Bongiovanni)
1996 - Discoveries, Instrumental virtuosity in the Italian 19th century (Musica immagine)
StreichTrio - Coen / Penazzi / Studer

1994 - Er-Innern (Yvp Music)
1997 - Drei Bilder (ART-P)
as a composer
1989 - Massimo Coen (Edipan)
2002 - Massimo Coen: Live Portrait (MRF)
2006 - Mon coeur qui bat (Rai Trade,
other collaborations
1976 - Music From the American Academy in Rome (CRI)
1990 - Eugenio Colombo - Giada (Splasc (h))
1992 - Giorgio Gaslini - Masks (Jazz Music)
1995 - Eugenio Colombo - Giuditta (Neljazz)
1996 - Musicians of the twentieth century active in Rome - Domenico Guaccero (CD I.R.TE.M.)
1998 - Klezroym (CNI Music)
2010 - Gabriele Coen Jewish Experience - Awakening (Tzadik Records)