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- John Harbison
Mottetti di Montale (1980)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- pf
- Mezzo Soprano [=soprano]
- 56 min
- Eugenio Montale
- Italian
Programme Note
Premiere:
4 August 1981
Janice Felty, mezzo-soprano
Edward Auer, piano
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
Mottetti di Montale are twenty poems by the Italian poet and Nobel Prize-winner, Eugenio Montale, arranged into four "Books" from Le Occasioni.
During the twenty years that followed the premiere, Harbison orchestrated three groups of the poems for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. The groups may be performed separately or together:
4 August 1981
Janice Felty, mezzo-soprano
Edward Auer, piano
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
Mottetti di Montale are twenty poems by the Italian poet and Nobel Prize-winner, Eugenio Montale, arranged into four "Books" from Le Occasioni.
During the twenty years that followed the premiere, Harbison orchestrated three groups of the poems for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. The groups may be performed separately or together:
Book 1
La Primavera di Sottoripa
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Book 2
Il Saliscendi Bianco (The White Swallow)
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Books 3 and 4
Due Libri
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Complete
Mottetti di Montale
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Reviews
Harbison's complete Mottetti di Montale [is] his breakthrough masterpiece of 1980. The cycle is a modern Winterreise, set in a bright Italian landscape, and [the] music is endlessly inventive in its responsiveness to detail in the text, endlessly subtle in its reflection of emotion. The piece is paralyzingly direct yet simultaneously distanced.
Discography
- LabelAlbany Records
- Catalogue Number997
- SoloistJanice Felty (Mezzo Soprano), Judith Gordon (Piano)
