Luigi Dallapiccola - The Invocation of Boethius

Songs of Imprisonment (1938-1941)

1. Mary Stuart's Prayer
2. The Invocation of Boethius
3. Girolamo Savonarola's Farewell

Swedish Radio Choir - Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Per Borin, Chorus Master

Members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor

*From the Sony Classical CD "Il Prigioniero. Canti di Prigionia" (1995)

"The Canti di Prigionia first appeared in 1938, subsequent upon Mussolini's speech promulgating race laws in Italy. On that occassion, Dallapiccola noted in his diary: 'I should have liked to protest, but I was not so ingenuous as to disregard the fact that, in a totalitarian regime, the individual is powerless. Only by means of music would I be able to express indignation'."

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