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“O you with healthy intellects ponder
the doctrine concealed
beneath the veil of strange verses” (Inferno IX,
61-63)
A human voice reading passages from the Divine Comedy is
transcribed,
with its speech rhythms and tunes, into sounds that become
a sound journey,
utilizing Dante’s solid epic framework,
linguistic variety and
numerical symbolism and drawing inspiration from the
emotional atmospheres
created by the poet, a musical journey evoking the
sorrowful discord of inferno,
the cathartic singing of purgatory, and the celestial
polyphony of paradise,
where music is eternally interwoven with light.
“since here it is with singing
one enters,
and down there with savage groans” (Purgatory
XII, 113-114)
Anna Buck,
flutes
Johannes Schneeberger,
piano and composition
Federica Rosellini,
recorded voice
supported by
imagonirmia