Alpha et Omega. 6 Sacred Pieces for Guitar (2020) is currently unavailable

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Guitar SKU: UT.CH-358 Composed by Marco Simoni. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Score. Ut Orpheus #CH 358. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-358). ISBN 9790215327207. 9 x 12 inches.Cantemus Domino; Sicut cervus; Agnus Dei; Alleluja; Resurrexi; Haec diesIn this series, considerable space has been given to pieces of sacred music (to mention a few: Missa by Gian Paolo Luppi, Di voci d’oro by Biancamaria Furgeri, Per il tempo di Pasqua by Franco Cavallone, and other pieces which have appeared here in various collections). Now it is the turn of Alpha et Omega by Marco Simoni.The Composer had already experimented with the sacred genre by composing Sicut dies illuminabitur, published in this series in the anthology Homage to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. By doing something similar to that of the piece mentioned, Simoni starts from some fragments also taken from Gregorian chant and which have as their subject some passages from the Easter liturgy. The Composer turns this musical material into modern and very idiomatic writing for the guitar, "while trying not to betray the vocal intent of those same fragments", as he himself writes.The idea, in short, from which this Suite arises, is to trace a sort of via lucis, to be the ideal continuation of the via crucis.(Piero Bonaguri).