Recordings

Vuci Siculani
CRI, CD 735 (1997)

"With its unlikely melding of Sicilian peasant music, jazz, and atonal harmony, the music of Italian-American composer Marc-Antonio Consoli achieves a colorful, often bizarre surrealism bordering on delirium."
-Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide.
 

Pensieri Sospesi, Afterimages, and Odefonia
American Composers Orchestra
Louisville Orchestra.
CRI, CD 789 (1999)

"Odefonia is a three-movement `sound' piece. Its twitterings, drones and dribbles might have been inspired by electronic music, but these sonorities have the sheen of a live performance. The shifting textures are handled with utmost suavity, and the work goes down smoothly."
-Raymond Ericson, The New York Times.

"Consoli is a splashy orchestrator and his effects are big and easy to grasp."
-Peter Rabinowitz, American Record Guide.

"Consoli's roaring symphonic poem must be heard as a sound structure based on shifting sonorities and rhythmic juxtapositions rather than on thematic development...the sheer sonic exhilaration of the piece strikes me as irresistible."
-Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine.