Andrea Amici: La Fleur Nuptiale per pianoforte
La Fleur nuptiale is a short piece for piano, a musical meditation on the beauty of the unique and unrepeatable moment of marriage, dedicated to my beloved American friends Leonardo Ciampa and Jeanette McGlamery for their wedding.
Echoes of music of the past come together in the synthesis of a language that spans musical time, suspending the atmosphere in a perpetual waiting to reach a final climax with a quote from the wedding song par excellence, the chorus from Wagner’s Lohengrin, seen as if a reflection in the water.
The piano writing tends to dilate the melodic ideas across the width of the keyboard, even hinting at a Romantic style of pianism, with a succession of episodes, linked together by some basic motivic ideas, sharing a common fundamental idea and harmonic procedures typical of the writing of the author, based on a form of free diatonism, without extreme simultaneous chromatic complications, with chord structures built from time to time on characteristic intervals.
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