Work Information
| Publisher |
Associated Music Publishers Inc |
Category |
Solo Voice(s) and up to 6 players |
| Year Composed |
1980 |
Duration |
56 Minutes |
| Solo Instrument(s) |
Mezzo Soprano [=soprano] |
Orchestration |
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| Languages |
Italian |
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| Vocal Score(s): |
50480303 |
Vocal Score(s): |
GS80303 |
Programme Note
Premiere:4 August 1981 Janice Felty, mezzo-soprano Edward Auer, piano Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Santa Fe, NM Mottetti di Montale are twenty poems by the Italian poet and Nobel Prize-winner, Eugenio Montale, arranged into four "Books" from Le Occasioni. During the twenty years that followed the premiere, Harbison orchestrated three groups of the poems for mezzo-soprano and ensemble. The groups may be performed separately or together: Book 1
La Primavera di Sottoripa
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Book 2
Il Saliscendi Bianco (The White Swallow)
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Books 3 and 4
Due Libri
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Complete
Mottetti di Montale
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Reviews
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Harbison's complete Mottetti di Montale [is] his breakthrough masterpiece of 1980. The cycle is a modern Winterreise, set in a bright Italian landscape, and [the] music is endlessly inventive in its responsiveness to detail in the text, endlessly subtle in its reflection of emotion. The piece is paralyzingly direct yet simultaneously distanced.
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
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