Front cover of Heart/Strings by Lucia Minetti, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the singer.

Heart/Strings — Lucia Minetti

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Front cover of Heart/Strings by Lucia Minetti, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the singer.
  • Front cover of Heart/Strings by Lucia Minetti, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the singer.
Heart/Strings — Lucia Minetti

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Heart/Strings — Lucia Minetti

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THE RECORDING

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Music, editions and recording details

Lucia Minetti’s voice meets the Quartetto Echos in twelve songs joining poetry and writing for strings. Oscar del Barba composed and arranged the music for texts by eight writers and poets, exploring love, desire, distance and memory. Heart/Strings places voice and string quartet in musical dialogue, captured live in the studio in Preganziol in the summer of 2019.

Available editions
  • CD — Velut Luna CVLD318CD.
  • Hi-Res file, 88.2 kHz / 24-bit — Velut Luna CVLD318.
Tracklist
  1. Memories — 3:21 (Oscar del Barba, Stefano Bortolussi)
  2. Rencontre — 2:13 (Oscar del Barba, Luca Ragagnin)
  3. Lullaby — 4:18 (Oscar del Barba, Enrico Remmert)
  4. So Look at me — 4:15 (Oscar del Barba, Francesca Tini Brunozzi)
  5. Per sempre naviganti — 4:24 (Oscar del Barba, Giuseppe Grattacaso)
  6. In The Whisper of Sighs — 3:33 (Oscar del Barba, Stefano Valanzuolo)
  7. I Will — 3:48 (Oscar del Barba, Stefano Bortolussi)
  8. Il nostro amor — 4:07 (Oscar del Barba, Dario Voltolini)
  9. Highway of the mind — 3:48 (Oscar del Barba, Stefano Bortolussi)
  10. In volo — 4:49 (Oscar del Barba, Giuseppe Grattacaso)
  11. Como um tormento — 4:17 (Oscar del Barba, Marco Bortoli)
  12. Il ponte — 3:28 (Oscar del Barba, Dario Voltolini)
Musicians
  • Lucia Minetti — voice
  • Quartetto Echos
  • Andrea Maffolini and Ida Di Vita — violins
  • Giorgia Lenzo — viola
  • Martino Maina — cello
Recording and mastering

Original 88.2 kHz / 24-bit recording, made live in the studio at Area Magister Studios, Preganziol, Italy, on 31 July and 1 August 2019. Ribera R12 and R47 valve microphones. Recording, mix and mastering: Marco Lincetto.

Credits
  • Original music and arrangements: Oscar del Barba.
  • Texts: Stefano Bortolussi, Marco Bortoli, Giuseppe Grattacaso, Luca Ragagnin, Enrico Remmert, Francesca Tini Brunozzi, Stefano Valanzuolo, Dario Voltolini.
  • Production: Velut Luna. Executive producer: Marco Lincetto. Musical producers: Lucia Minetti and Marco Lincetto.
  • Text editing and English translations: Stefano Bortolussi. Translation of Como um tormento: Juliana Folle Beraldo.
  • Photography: Marco Lincetto. Photograph of Oscar del Barba: Roberto Cavalli. Design: L’Image.

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