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Lux in Tenebris: La Commedia di Dante - Cantica I: Canto V - After 'The Kiss'
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| Komponist | Ennio Paola |
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| Verleger | Significant Music |
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| Genre |
Klassische Musik / Instrumentalmusik
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| Instrumentierung |
Klavier |
| Partitur für | Solo |
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| Art der Partitur | Für einen Interpreten |
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| Länge |
5'0" |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad |
Fortgeschritten |
| Jahr der Komposition |
2015 |
| Beschreibung |
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Commissioned to celebrate the 750th Anniversary (2015), birth of Dante Alighieri
Cantica I: Canto V
Synopsis
Circle Two: The Carnal
The Poets leave Limbo and enter the SECOND
CIRCLE. Here begin the torments of Hell proper,
and here, blocking the way, sits MINOS, the dread
and semi-bestial judge of the damned who assigns to
each soul its eternal torment. He orders the Poets back; but
Virgil silences him as he earlier silenced Charon, and
the Poets move on.
They find themselves on a dark ledge swept by a
great whirlwind, which spins within it the souls of the
CARNAL, those who betrayed reason to their appetites.
Their sin was to abandon themselves to the
tempest of their passions: so they are swept forever in
the tempest of Hell, forever denied the light of reason
and of God. Virgil identifies many among them:
SEMIRAMIS is there, and DIDO, CLEOPATRA,
HELEN, ACHILLES, PARIS, and TRISTAN.
Dante sees PAOLO and FRANCESCA swept together,
and in the name of love he calls to them to tell
their sad story. They pause from their eternal flight to
come to him, and Francesca, tells their history while
Paolo weeps at her side. Dante is so stricken by compassion
at their tragic tale that he swoons once again — and faints. |
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