Elias Stemeseder, Thomas Morgan - Io Pur Respiro

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SQM037 
Barcode: 4251804189484
Release Date: 10 Jul 2026
Genre: Jazz/Modern Classical 

Pianist Elias Stemeseder and bass player Thomas Morgan debut on Squama with ‘Io Pur Respiro’. Recorded live at Sala Vanni in Florence, the album shows a duo at the height of their craft with an unmistakable instinct for melody and balance.

Io Pur Respiro (“Yet I breathe”) is the title of an early 17th century madrigal by Italian renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo that’s also the harmonic basis for the album’s opening track Madrigal, Variation, Courante. With two standards from the 1930s (Love Came / I Have The Room Above Her) and two original compositions by Stemeseder there’s 400 years of melodic evolution enshrined in this record. Yet, the music sounds neither new, nor old giving the album a profound sense of timelessness that’s owed to the eternal force of melody and harmony.

Tracklist:  A1) Madrigal, Variation, Courante 00:09:59 A2) Love Came 00:08:42 A3) On The Euclidian Plane 00:07:17 B1) I Have The Room Above Her 00:07:20 B2) Subject Carved From Words Uttered 00:10:00