Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero / Noseda, Danish National Symphony

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
July 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DALLAPICCOLA, LUIGI
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Concert Choir Noseda
    • PERFORMER
      Chiuri, Rugamer, Nagy
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 03, 2020
    • UPC
      095115527627
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5276
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prologue: Ti rivedrò, mio figlio! Ti rivedrò (The Mother)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Anna Maria Chiuri

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    2. Interlude: Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos (Chorus)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    3. Scene 1: Ero solo. Tutto era buio (The Prisoner, The Mother)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy, Anna Maria Chiuri

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    4. Scene 2: Solo. Son solo un'altra volta (The Prisoner, The Jailer)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy, Stephan Rügamer

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    5. Scene 3: Signore, aiutami a camminare (The Prisoner)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    6. Scene 3: Buio. Silenzio. Come fra le tombe (The Prisoner)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    7. Scene 3: Non reggo (The Prisoner, First Priest, Second Priest)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy, Adam Riis, Steffen Bruun

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    8. Scene 3:Quegli occhi mi guardavano! (The Prisoner)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    9. Interlude: Domine, labia mea aperies (Chorus)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    10. Scene 4: Alleluja! (The Prisoner, Chorus, The Grand Inquisitor)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Nagy, Stephan Rügamer

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    11. No. 1. Il coro delle malmaritate

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Concert Choir

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    12. No. 2. Il coro dei malammogliati

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: Danish National Concert Choir

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda

    13. Estate (Summer)

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Ensemble: male section Danish National Concert Choir

      Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda


Gianandrea Noseda continues his series of recordings of the works of Luigi Dallapiccola, this time with his Danish forces. Seen by many as Dallapiccola’s masterpiece, Il prigioniero (The Prisoner) is a one-act opera composed in the late 1940s, and premiered (in a radio broadcast) in 1949. The Italian composer had first encountered serialism as a student in Florence in the 1920s, when Schoenberg visited to conduct Pierrot lunaire. The influence was profound, although it would take two decades before it demonstrated itself fully in his composition. Based primarily on a short story, ‘La Torture par l’espérance’ (Torture by Hope), by the French writer Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, the opera concerns a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who finds the door of his cell unlocked and creeps out under the cover of darkness to the garden beyond. Hope rises to the level of ecstasy, before he finds himself embraced in the Garden by the Inquisitor, who returns him to his cell. Dallapiccola employs three twelve-note tone rows in the work, which he named ‘Prayer’, ‘Hope’, and ‘Freedom’, from which all the vocal lines are created. The album is completed by three choral works: Estate, written in 1932 for male chorus, and two settings from 1933 of poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger for mixed voice chorus.

REVIEW:

Noseda’s performance is nothing if not formidable. Its impact derives largely from his ability to think in terms of cumulative span while focusing on textural clarity and immediacy of expression. The cast, meanwhile, combine lyricism with declamation. It’s an outstanding, essential album, every second of it.

– Gramophone