Silvio Foretić (b.1940) :   Concerto for Second Violin (Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra (Pécs)| Zsolt Hamar, conductor); Concerto rosso for piano and orchestra (Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra | Danijel Detoni, piano | Nikša Bareza, conductor); Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra | Pavao Mašić, organ | Mladen Tarbuk, conductor); Monotonia for string nonet (or orchestra) and piano (Ansambl „fin de siecle – fin de millénaire“, Duisburg | Silvio Foretić, conductor);   The Brown Rhein for strings, 2-3 synthesizers and piano (Community Orchestra of the Croatian Music Institute | Silvio Foretić, conductor);   Soloists, for 12 strings (Zagreb Soloists); Sextet for three trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (Ad Gloriam Brass).

Description: The eccentric and primary impulses of Silvio Foretić’s earliest musical activities, attempts and pieces seem to coincide with acquiring new knowledge and insights, and could almost be arranged in a series of smaller explosive breakthroughs of distinct character and variable energy charge that imply a strong and flexible line of resistance to the dictates of mainstream dominant music or doctrine. But these sparks, momentums and jumps of the driving forces of his permanent composing struggle also cast light on the intimacy of the landscape of meanderingly indented musical opus, a kind of an open autobiographical novel – a discussion in which colorful torsional magmas of varying qualities and densities alternate: sound and stage gestures, diverse music, chants, images, his own and literary texts, genuinely committed educational–enlightening actions and provocations.