COME TO UNDERSTAND - Music on Dante's verses

COME AND INTEND – Music on Dante's verses ( LDV 14086)

Gaetano Donizetti

Count Ugolino (“He raised his mouth from the fierce meal”, 1826)

Love that loved nothing (“Dante's tercet”, 1843)

Gioacchino Rossini

Francesca from Rimini (“rhythmic recitative”, 1848)

PHILIP MARCHETTI

The Pia (1880c)

CIRO PINSUTI

Beatrice (1868)

FRANCESCO MORLACCHI

Come and hear my sighs (“Dante's sonnet”, 1835)

Dante's Ugolino (“declaimed with music”, 1832)

MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1926)

1. Riding the day before yesterday down a chimney

2. Bring my woman Love into your eyes

3. She seems so kind and so honest

4. Ah, pilgrims who go thoughtfully

Evening op. 23 (1921)

The compositions on this CD introduce us to the most significant chamber music compositions based on Dante's texts between the 19th and 20th centuries. The primary literary source is the Divine Comedy, and especially the Inferno, with its characters whose earthly experiences were horribly and romantically overwhelming. The other work that offers his verses to music is the Vita nova, a cross between poetry and prose, depicting the sentimental delirium of an adolescent for the stylized figure of a woman his own age.

The compositions contained in this CD allow us to become familiar with the most significant and compelling chamber music scores composed on texts by Dante between the 19th and the 20th centuries. The primary literary source is the Divine Comedy, especially the Inferno with its characters whose worldly events were horribly and romantically overwhelming. The other work whose verses have been put to music is Vita nova, a middle way between poetry and prose, that is the emotional obsession of an adolescent for the stylized figure of a woman his own age.