Special offer. Dallapiccola: Il prigioniero (The Prisoner)
Aile Asszonyi (The Mother), Markus Butter (The Prisoner), Manuel von Senden (Dungeon Master / Grand Inquisitor), Roman Pichler (First Priest), David McShane (Second Priest)
Choir of the Graz Opera & Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Dirk Kaftan
Il Prigioniero is Dallapiccola’s masterpiece – the work in which his musical language, his political engagement and his innate sense of theatre all came together in perfect harmony…This Graz...
Special offer. Dallapiccola: Il prigioniero (The Prisoner)
Aile Asszonyi (The Mother), Markus Butter (The Prisoner), Manuel von Senden (Dungeon Master / Grand Inquisitor), Roman Pichler (First Priest), David McShane (Second Priest)
Choir of the Graz Opera & Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Dirk Kaftan
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Il Prigioniero is Dallapiccola’s masterpiece – the work in which his musical language, his political engagement and his innate sense of theatre all came together in perfect harmony…This Graz...
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Dallapiccola‘s timbres lead us through the darknesses of the human soul, allowing us to hope together with the prisoner, for we hear with him the saving word 'fratello' (brother). At the moment of the greatest fulfilment of hope, he is seized by the arms of the Grand Inquisitor and must acknowledge that hope was the worst torture of all. The performance series in Graz in March 2017, from which the present recording is taken, was praised in the highest terms by the musical press.
Libretto in Italian and German in the booklet.
Contents and tracklist
- Aile Asszonyi (soprano), Markus Butter (baritone), Manuel von Senden (tenor), Roman Pichler (tenor), David McShane (bass)
- Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester, Chor der Oper Graz
- Dirk Kaftan
- Recorded: March 2017
- Recording Venue: Oper Graz
Awards and reviews
May 2018
Il Prigioniero is Dallapiccola’s masterpiece – the work in which his musical language, his political engagement and his innate sense of theatre all came together in perfect harmony…This Graz Opera performance is well, if a little carefully, conducted by Dirk Kaftan, while Aile Asszonyi and Markus Butter give assured accounts of the prisoner and his mother.
