“Tales from the Underground” is a symphonic poem in which, with new and very personal language, the maestro Carrara develops, through small themes, a refined sound texture, in which the voices of the various instrumental families are opposed and interact, by creating structures and depth; opera gives me the feeling of being in motion, as a slow stream, deep for the many plots generated and with a great sonic richness created by the combination of the different orchestral timbres and percussive reverberations, shaping a compact sound block, coherent and structured despite the great fluidity; the question here is very interesting: “Modern and avant-garde?”; I don’t know, however, it is [music] charming and totally immersed in our time, does not fall in the use of the ‘easy’ which affected a lot of new music, it explores cinematographic language, we have so rooted and whose understanding is so immediate that we take for granted, but Carrara “tells” us of other things or maybe of the same but in another form, an intelligent, free and personal one.