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Lux in Tenebris: La Commedia di Dante - Cantica I: Canto V - After 'The Kiss'
SM-000230886
Composer | Ennio Paola |
Publisher | Significant Music |
Genre |
Classical / Instrumental
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Instrumentation |
Piano |
Scored for | Solo |
Type of score | For a single performer |
Duration |
5'0" |
Difficulty |
Advanced |
Year of composition |
2015 |
Description |
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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