Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti, Igor Stravinsky
Performer: AJ Glueckert, Alex Esposito, Adolfo Corrado, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Sebastian Geyer, Luca Bernard
Orchestra: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dynamic
Catalogue: CDS7981
Release: 2023
Size: 724 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Pizzetti: Orchestral Preludes for Oedipus Rex
01. Largo
02. Con impeto, ma non troppo mosso
03. Con molta espressione di dolore
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
04. Prologue – Spettatori, state per ascoltare…
05. Kaedit nos pestis
06. Liberi, vos liberabo a peste
07. Ecco Creonte Work length
08. Respondit deus
09. Non reperias vetus skelus
10. Edipo interroga la fonte della verità
11. Delie, expectamus Minerva
12. Dikere non possum
13. Invidia fortunam odit
14. Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!
15. Act Two – La disputa dei principi
16. Nonn’erubeskite, reges
17. Pavesco subito, Jocasta
18. Il testimone dell’omicidio
19. Adest omniskius pastor
20. Oportebat takere
21. Nonne monstrum reskituri
22. In monte reppertus est
23. E ora ascolterete il famoso monologo
24. Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!
25. Ekke! Regem Oedipoda
Both Pizzetti and Stravinsky were drawn to the subject of Oedipus Rex, but in very different contexts. The 24-year-old Pizzetti was commissioned to write Three Orchestral Preludes for use in a theatrical production. He wrote with an austere sense of orchestral colour, devoid of impressionism that favours the vaguely archaic, with modal inflections. Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator. In a stark, stylised and formal setting, the use of Latin, and Stravinsky’s instruction for the leading characters to wear masks, add timeless, impersonal elements to a work that culminates in catharsis.