The Concertino di Alghero is a tribute to the Alghero poet Maria Chessa Lai (1922 - 2012).
It consists of three movements inspired by lines from the poem En dins de mi (Inside Me).
The first movement, Contas de Dolças Rondallas (Legends of
Sweet Fairy Tales) is a leyenda that makes use of two main themes whose
elaboration is continuously interwoven between the two instruments
through prismatic observation of fundamental cells. The brief episode
before the reprise while not forsaking the elaborations of the main
themes and developing on a rhythmically motionless carpet, takes on the
appearance of a concealed subject, uncovered as if by shifting attention
for a few moments from the main scene to the context in the background.
The second movement En l’Alba Clara (In The Clear Dawn) does
not entirely abandon the tonal ambience of the first, but evoking the
games and endless chromaticism of the very first light of dawn, it moves
on undulating chromaticisms devoid of any staticity that give rise to
three short episodes.
In the final movement Les Fulles més no Tremolen (The Leaves
No Longer Tremble), the dormant impetus of the imagined observer of a
portion of existential stillness is brought to the fore by the rutilant
progression marked in focus from the very first bars. The tight dialogue
between the two instruments and the wide dynamic excursions amalgamate
giving shape to a sonic paste; from which the reminders of past themes
are as if extracted from a lost memory.
