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Composer:
Luigi Dallapiccola

Artist(s):
Gillian Keith
Paul Watkins

Conductor:
Gianandrea Noseda

Background: The Musica Italiana series is very close to the heart of the Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda, and especially the music of Luigi Dallapiccola. From the moment of his appointment to the BBC Philharmonic Noseda spoke of his ambition to record the works of this twentieth-century composer.

Dallapiccola was in many respects the quintessential Italian, in love with lyricism, the Romance languages, classical antiquity, Dante, Monteverdi and Verdi. Yet a certain orientation towards Austro-German art led him to follow Busoni, Schoenberg and Webern in seeking new modes of musical architecture. Dallapiccola was to become the first significant Italian composer to embrace Schoenberg’s twelve-note method of composition. But he embraced it from a wholly Italianate direction, deriving his music from twelve-note rows but keeping them subservient to his lyrical and visionary expressive impulses.

Though he came to prominence in Mussolini’s Italy, Dallapiccola was a dedicated anti-Fascist, in danger of his life during World War II. Many of his works deal with the themes of persecution, imprisonment, resistance to tyranny, the importance of holding fast to civilised values. For him, art possessed moral force; it is this, combined with the refinement and perfectionism of his technique, that makes him such an abiding inspiration in a later age of cultural relativism.

CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10561
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jan-2010

COMPOSER: Luigi Dallapiccola
TITLE: Orchestral Works volume 2
TRACKS: Partita. Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado. Dialoghi. Three Questions with Two Answers.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Gianandrea Noseda
ARTISTS: Gillian Keith   Paul Watkins    

- Apr-2010 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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