Butterfly Effect (2022) (Casually, Japanese traditional flown through Lucca's walls)

Transcribed for clarinet, cello and piano

A sense of mystery and foreboding inhabits the score from its beginning, with the double- bass’s pizzicato over which those by the harp insert themselves. The Japanese themes used by Puccini for weaving his opera are here woven as the intro and outro of the intermezzo and the main theme of the aria Un bel dì vedremo. Originally wrote for double bass and Harp this transcription has been commissioned by New Phoenix Ensamble in late 2022.

The cello and clarinet take the floor more often in the more properly melodic section – Butterfly’s visceral voice – and the piano does not limit itself to playing the background. The three instruments realize a dialogue which, at times, leads to their merging, and, at other times, becomes the struggle of opposing principles, as in the opera. The closing is in an unexpected, dreamy waning, where neither joy nor pain exist anymore.