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A selection of newspaper articles and critical responses devoted to Aldo Brizzi’s artistic work.

Newspaper articles Critical responses

Newspaper articles

Press selection

Amor Azul

Publication: Le Monde
Year: 2022
Subject: Review of the premiere performance in Paris
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I-Juca Pirama

Publication: O Globo
Year: 2025
Subject: Review of the premiere in Belém
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Preludio Tour

Publication: The Times
Year: 2017
Subject: Review of the Barbican concert in London
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Ópera dos terreiros

Publication: O Globo
Year: 2023
Subject: Review of the performances in Salvador
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Critical responses

Selected quotations

“Bem-vindo, Aldo Brizzi, que ‘a brisa do Brasil’ deslumbra, mas não dobra. Sua música difícil mas amorosa, despreconcebida, mas não feita ‘para vender e vender depressa’, há de ser muito útil para abrir os nossos ouvidos a novas e necessárias descobertas desabridas.”

Augusto de Campos, Brizzi do Brasil, A Folha de São Paulo, 1998.
“Welcome, Aldo Brizzi, whose ‘breeze of Brazil’ enchants, but does not bend. Your music, difficult yet loving, free from preconceptions, but not made ‘to sell and sell quickly’, will be very useful in opening our ears to new and necessary rough and surprising discoveries.”

“E l’idea dell’opera di Brizzi è di una maturità e di una consapevolezza assai apprezzabile. Con l’evidente scopo, lacerante, di entrare nella forma e sconvolgerla dall’interno, per attingere nuove energie. Che era precisamente ciò che volevano i classici.”

Michelangelo Zurletti, ECYO concert programme note, 1981.
“And Brizzi’s idea of the work shows a highly appreciable maturity and awareness. With the evident, lacerating aim of entering form and overturning it from within, in order to draw new energies from it. Which was precisely what the classics wanted.”

“Aldo Brizzi è una specie di miracolo. Italiano, è riuscito a firmare uno dei più interessanti dischi di musica brasiliana del momento. ... Il suo Brasile è eclettico e tradizionale, minimalista e lussureggiante, colto e popolare...”

Elisa Manisco, La Repubblica, 2004.
“Aldo Brizzi is a sort of miracle. Italian, he managed to create one of the most interesting Brazilian music records of the moment. ... His Brazil is eclectic and traditional, minimalist and lush, cultivated and popular...”

“Il lavoro di Brizzi, nella sua sovrapposizione di segni espressivi, diventa quindi non solo un eccellente esempio di superamento delle forme e degli stili definiti, ma si fa pure confronto etico fra culture, antropologia musicale, dove l’uomo abita lo spazio dell’opera, calibrato su una progettualità aperta che ha come fine quello di amplificare il senso dei materiali di partenza (senso ludico, intellettuale e culturale assieme).”

Renzo Cresti, Musica Presente, 2018.
“Brizzi’s work, in its superimposition of expressive signs, becomes not only an excellent example of going beyond fixed forms and styles, but also an ethical encounter among cultures, a kind of musical anthropology, where the human being inhabits the space of the work, shaped by an open design whose purpose is to amplify the meaning of the source materials, at once playful, intellectual and cultural.”