Colasanti: Requiem 'Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa'

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Release Date: 15th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CDS7807
Label: Dynamic
Length: 51 minutes

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Colasanti: Requiem 'Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa'

Work length51:59

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Mariangela Gualtieri (narrator), Monica Bacelli (mezzo-soprano), Massimiliano Pitocco (bandoneon)
Ensemble Vocale Continuum, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento
Maxime Pascal
Recorded: 27 September 2017
Recording Venue: Bolzano Festival Transart, Italy

I. Requiem Aeternam (Live)

Track length7:38

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II. Alle piccole e grandi ombre (Live)

Track length5:56

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III. Dies Irae (Live)

Track length7:09

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IV. Se come dici appare (Live)

Track length2:14

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V. Quid Sum Miser (Live)

Track length8:29

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VI. Questo Re tremendo e maestoso (Live)

Track length2:57

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VII. Lacrimosa (Live)

Track length3:14

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VIII. Perdonate (Live)

Track length5:23

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IX. Lux Aeterna (Live)

Track length8:59

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Silvia Colasanti’s Requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra is dedicated to the victims of the 2016 earthquake in central Italy. Latin Requiem Mass texts are complemented by new texts, specially written by the poet Mariangela Gualtieri. The work is a chant of farewell to the dead, to their small and large shadows, the rejection of a mournful idea of death and of an angry, judging, authoritarian and punitive God. But it is also a song of hope and thanksgiving.

Reflecting the composer’s affinity for stage works, the Requiem has an oratorio structure with various characters: a reciting voice impersonates 'the doubter', the most unorthodox element with regard to historical and common rhetoric; a 'chorus of the undoubting' represents the archetypal religious approach; a solo female voice interprets the 'heart burnt to ashes', an embodiment of suffering; and there is a solo bandoneon to personify 'a desire of Rebirth', which is a request for the redemption from our human insignificance and a song of thanksgiving to the earth and the sky, a combination of the secular rite of music and poetry with the traits of compassion, ardour and sweetness.

Colasanti: Requiem 'Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa'

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