Wuorinen - Dante Trilogy (chamber version) | Naxos - American Classics 8559345

Wuorinen - Dante Trilogy (chamber version)

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559345

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd January 2008

Contents

Artists

The Group for Contemporary Music

Conductor

Oliver Knussen

Works

Wuorinen, Charles

The Great Procession
The Mission of Virgil
The River of Light

Artists

The Group for Contemporary Music

Conductor

Oliver Knussen

About

In his long composing life, Charles Wuorinen has drawn on an extremely wide range of intellectual and musical inspirations, including many from science and literature.

The Dante Triology is among his most ambitious compositions, its source one of the great works of the Western intellectual canon.

The three ballets each correspond to one of the books of Dante's Divina Commedia: The Mission of Virgil to Inferno, The Great Procession to Purgatorio and The River of Light to Paradiso. Although rather than attempting to mirror the whole of Dante's narrative, Wuorinen's music relates to the detail and atmosphere of the books.

The Dante Trilogy:
The Mission of Virgil (1993)
The Great Procession (1995)
The River of Light (1996)

World Premiere Recordings.

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