Cori di Didone
composer: Luigi Nono
text writer: Giuseppe Ungaretti
aus "La terra promessa" von Giuseppe Ungaretti
für gemischten Chor (8S8A8T8B) und Schlagzeug
Dedication: Wolfgang und Hella Steinecke gewidmet
Premiere: December 7, 1958 Darmstadt (D) Internationale Ferienkurse 1958 · Conductor: Bernhard Zimmermann
Orchestra instrumentation: S. (Gl. · 8 hg. Beck. · 4 Tamt.) (6 Spieler)
Publisher: Ars-Viva-Verlag GmbH
Duration: 12' 0''
Year of composition: 1958
Edition: full score
Language: Italian
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Commissioned by the town of Darmstadt in 1958 and premiered at the International summer Course for New Music, Coro di Didone is one of numerous vocal compositions by Luigi Nono. Coming after works such as Il Canto sospeso and Le Terra e la Compagna, it is characterised by, as he put it, his ‘[…] new vocal expressivity with a simultaneous relationship between the two formulating dimensions of a text: phonetics and semantics.’ The words are split into syllables, vowels and consonants and the text wanders through all voices of the choir. The percussion, comprising cymbal, tam tam and gong, makes rare appearances which particularly underlines its expressivity.
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