TITLE: CANTI DELLA TENEBRAFIVE LIEDER FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO AND PIANO
COMPOSER / AUTHOR: FURRER, BEAT

INSTRUMENTATION OF THE WORK: MEZZO-SOPRANO, PIANO
DETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: MEZZO-SOPRANO SOLO, PIANO
GENESIS OF THE WORK: 2011/2012
LIBRETTIST: CAMPANA, DINO
PRODUCT FORMAT: PERFORMANCE SCORE
INSTRUMENTATION: MEZZO-SOPRANO SOLO, PIANO
LANGUAGE(S) OF WORK: ITALIAN
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: SPIRAL STICHED
PRINT RUN: 3RD PRINTING 2018

DESCRIPTION:
-FOR BEAT FURRER, THE POET DINO CAMPANA (1885–1932) IS “PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE OF THE ITALIAN WRITERS OF HIS TIME WHO WAS CAPABLE OF BRINGING TO LIFE THE NEW FUTURISTIC IDEAS WITH A GREAT POETIC POWER AND A STRONG ASSOCIATION WITH THE ITALIAN AND FRENCH LITERATURE OF THE PAST.” CAMPANA’S HIGHLY POETIC IMAGES TAKING IN THE NIGHT-TIME VIEW OF THE SKIES, FOR INSTANCE, OR A TOWN IN WHICH THE PEOPLE SEEM TO WANDER AROUND LIKE LOST SOULS, BECOME A FANTASY ON ENDLESSNESS, AN UNFORGETTABLE MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS IN FURRER’S SONGS.

- SONG CYCLE WITH VISIONARY, NEW POETIC AURA
- AMBITIOUS AND CHALLENGING REPERTOIRE OF THE HIGHEST COMPOSITIONAL QUALITY
- EXEMPLARY ENGRAVING

CONTENT:
· I. SUL TORRENTE NOTTURNO
· II. VIAGGIO A MONTEVIDEO
· III. IL CANTO DELLA TENEBRA
· IV. CORSA INFRENABILE
· V. LA CHIMERA