“A composition for two violins, viola, and cello, four voices that overlap, assist each other, hold each other up, to arrive together at the expressive punctum represented by the crucifixion of Our Lord.” This is how Battistelli introduces Struggenze, a composition that will be premiered in the course of the WDR 3 Ostermusik 2014 concert series in Cologne. The piece will be interpreted by the Quartetto Prometeo in a concert on April 16, in the studios of the WDR, which will be broadcast live.

The composer continues his description speaking of “a music that despairs, weeps, that searches within itself for an empathetic development that might bring the music close to the agonising harmony of baroque composer Alessandro Stradella. Struggenze is one of my works where past and present are no longer alignedin sequence, a before and an after, but rather live together in an interpenetrated verticality in which the concept of time passing is eluded.”

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