Description

Felcino Bianco is a wonderful old place in Tuscany (Italy), at an altitude of approximately five hundred meters in the hills of the Arrezzo province, on the border to Umbria.
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When I arrived at Felcino Bianco, at the wonderful old house, located high in the mountains, of the artistic director Elvira Bekova and her husband, manager Michael Humphreys, the first thing that I heard was the sound of cicadas… thousands of them. There was also wonderful birdsong…. and in the distance, the sound of church bells…. I thought that I should write a piece – capturing my impressions of that time, that place and those sounds.
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In the recording, heard several times during this piece, you will hear the sounds of nature: cicadas, birds, wind, church bells – everything that we heard in that unforgettable piece of paradise – Felcino Bianco.