Campodonico / Putignano: Sounds and Silences of the Strings

Chamber music, in its centuries-long history, presents the most diverse and surprising combinations of instruments: string, wind, percussion, and keyboard instruments have found almost endless possibilities for combination over time. If we were to limit ourselves to music for three instruments, there would be hundreds of variants based on traditional instrumentation alone. Nevertheless, a trio of guitar, piano, and harp has never before been conceived or realized by anyone, in any field or in any era. The recording presented here therefore offers the listener a unique, completely new instrumental perspective: thanks to the original ideas of Trio Gynaika, the birth of a new, highly original chamber ensemble is celebrated. Historical tradition offers a multitude of musical examples in which the guitar, harp, or piano are used, but the simultaneous use of all three or even just two of these instruments has been avoided. Dania Carissimi on guitar, Domenica Bellantone on harp, and Chiara Di Muzio on piano are the performers of this original production by the award-winning composers Biagio Putignano and Beatrice Campodonico.