LUIGI NONO: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura

"Nostalgic, utopian, future distance", the title of this piece investigates the possibilities of violin playing, the intimate, physical quality of the sound and the historical dimensions inherent to this instrument." By offering the listener a series of association patterns, relating to various kinds of historical have-beens, it reveals what has remained unfinished in the past and transforms it to a future potential which lies ahead of us as utopia that must be rediscovered anew by the interpreters and listeners each time they are performed.