Critics

from "Enciclopedia Italiana dei Compositori Contemporanei"

Bellafronte's musical language constantly expresses irony; a not recurrent quality among the Italian musicians. Irony, unlike the assembling gag, is a learning support and allows one to be objective and detached in order to understand better the meaning of reality (standing to the ontological prospective), process and relationships (standing to the phenomenological prospective).

However it is important not to consider this aspect as the most important one , since Bellafronte's production shows also other precious expressive sides.

In fact he uses to deepen also the other aspects of the musical language.

The compositor revises everything concerning music that means: rhythm, melodies, accords and tones which are focal points in his production.

We get in touch with a special and self conscious way of expression, looking like a building and playing a special game with the sounds; so that Bellafronte's intention to awake one's emotions becomes real.

His music is blown by a sort of "corporeity" made of rhythmical, colourist, harmonic bursts and lyric startles; reaching up the contemplative dimension and stirring up the primordial emotions of passion and pain.

The compositor tries to reach the rare and delicate contact dimension, which is almost physical, between compositor and audience, music and hearing sensitivity: irony and pathos , stasis and moving, life dualism…

It is a big risk going against the actual composition trends which are more and more dismantling and breaking away from reality; trying to reach an isolated and hermetic limbo.

The real challenge for R. Bellafronte bases on his intention to: reconcile the conflicting desires, compose the centrifugal forces, get accordance between audience and composition; connect the need to be original with the refuse of idolatry for what is "new", the spiritual expression with the writing production, irony with drama, content and style: that means trying to "balance" the composite instability of the chaotic musical dimension.