Exploring the oeuvre of Mauro Montalbetti is like moving through a labyrinth made of glass, in

which the apparent simplicity of the surfaces hides, in full view, the multilayered interplay of references

and reflections. Since the late 1980s, the composer from Brescia has progressively tackled

almost every genre, in a succession of experiences that have been described as phases in

their own right, but which are surprising for the coherence and naturalness of their development.

This recording by the AltreVoci Ensemble and Laura Bersani has among it's merits precisely that

of allowing us to discover the path that Montalbetti has traced in his now more than 35 years of

activity through his output for transverse flute, an instrument deeply loved by Montalbetti, who

cites among his references the great flutist Annamaria Morini, whom he met and listened to several

times in the 1980s, and the works of Varese, Debussy, Messiaen, Berio, Maderna, Matsudaira,

Hosokawa, Takemitsu and, of course, his teacher Giacometti.