Stabat nuda Aestas

This quartet was drawn from the homonym poem “Stabat Nuda Æstas” by G. D’Annunzio from the collection “Alcyone”, with the aim of retracing its own main characters by recreating the dramaturgy of the events according to the dynamism it evokes.

The gaze of the poet, and of the spectator as well, follows the happening from a hidden perspective, while the poem shows the embodiment of the summer in a female figure even if it’s not recognizable at once; what can be seen is just a tiny foot first, part of her back then.

It expresses the diversity of several naturalistic elements from the first to the latest stanza, just like the way is changing the motion of this woman and her running from the pinewood towards the beach, bound for the crystal clear sea. As well as the poem, the quartet has agogic and tactus diversification that culminates in the latest section in which the hectic rhythm explodes.

This piece has been composed trying to give performers a very wide range of effects and executive techniques in order to highlight the virtuosism of each member of the quartet.