Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Il conte Ugolino, d'après "La bocca sollevo dal fiero pasto"
Amor ch'a null' amato, d'après "Terzina dantesca"

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Francesca da Rimini

Filippo Marchetti (1831-1902)
La Pia

Ciro Pinsuti (1828-1888)
Beatrice

Francesco Morlacchi (1784-1841)
Venir a intender li sospiri miei, d'après un sonnet de Dante
L'Ugolino di Dante

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Quattro sonetti dalla vita Nova, op. 41
Sera, op. 23

Mirco Palazzi, basse
Marco Scolastra, piano

The compositions contained in this CD allow us to become familiar with the most significant and compelling chamber music scores composed on texts by Dante between the 19th and the 20th centuries. The primary literary source is the Divine Comedy, especially the Inferno with its characters whose worldly events were horribly and romantically over-whelming. The other work whose verses have been put to music is Vita nova, a middle way between poetry and prose, that is the emotional obsession of an adolescent for the stylised figure of a woman his own age.