Dante in Musica – 10 Compositions for Voice and Pianoforte

Dante in Musica
10 Compositions for Voice and Pianoforte on texts by Dante Alighieri

Preface Matteo Macinanti
Critical Revision Alessandro Monga & Anna Bonitatibus

It cannot and should not be thought that the relationship between Dante and Romantic music is limited to large-scale orchestral works or the most sonorous of vocal compositions. The chamber song (as evidenced by this collection, in which all vocal types find space, and which covers a time span of about a century) in fact reveals a notable variety of approach to Dante’s poetry that, although “in una parte più e meno altrove” [“In one part more, in another less’’, Paradiso, I: 3], demonstrates a profound interconnection between literary language and musical language.

• Giuseppe Balducci
  (Clotilde Capece Minutolo)
  Iscrizione sulla porta dell’Inferno
  Bass
• Gaetano Donizetti
  Il Conte Ugolino
  Bass
• Gioachino Rossini
  Francesca da Rimini
  Soprano / Mezzo-soprano
• Ciro Pinsuti
  Beatrice
  Mezzo-soprano / Soprano
• Hans von Bülow
  Sonetto di Dante Alighieri Op. 22
  Soprano / Mezzo-soprano
• Filippo Marchetti
  La Pia
  Mezzo-soprano / Alto
• Amilcare Ponchielli
  Noi leggevamo insieme
  Tenor / Soprano
• Giacomo Puccini
  Storiella d’amore
  Tenor / Soprano
• Luigi Mancinelli
  Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
  Tenor / Soprano
• Mario Pilati
  Sonetto
  Tenor / Soprano