Pre-Order: Laura Lootens – Diabolico

Laura Lootens’s first collaboration with naive, Diabolico leads us into a world of strange tales and pacts with the devil and other ghostly apparitions which actually form the core of a magnificent journey in sound, covering an extremely varied range of styles. A soothingly tranquil introduction, the opening movement of The Devil’s Trill Sonata of Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) here serves as a prelude to the transformations of the last of Paganini’s Caprices, the supreme incarnation in music of the devil, composed by George Rochberg (1918-2005). These Caprice Variations make up an intriguing musical kaleidoscope of fifty-one variations which sometimes remind one of Bach, Brahms, or indeed Paganini’s own wild flashes of lightning, yet they are also founded upon more modern, even experimental ideas-a captivating play between past and present which Laura Lootens represents here with eleven of her favourite movements. Afterwards comes a work by Niccolo Pag