In the CD “Sequentia” Massimiliano Donninelli has recorded a programme of soloistics pieces for differents saxopohones. From soprano to the tenor showing an excellent domain of all instruments. Apart from the famous Sequenza IXb, all compositions are dedicated to the interpreter that close the CD with an own composition. The pieces are in the style as during the avant-garde years dominated the development of the contemporary music and represent an hudge palette of differents styles and atmospheres. All compositions apart the piece by Mosca, are writed in the form of cadenza libera with typicals characteristics of the sound of the avant-garde that Donninelli domains in a extraordinary way. The nuances of the colours, of the pertainig to tone-colours effects, the perfect technique, the domain of the differents atmospheres and the knowledge of the differents styles are the specifics elements of this excellent soloistic CD.

Ivo Petrić