Adès: Dante - Dudamel & LA Phil (2 CD)
2024 Grammy® Award winner for Best Orchestral Performance
Featured in the New York Times Best Classical Music Albums of 2023
Featured in NPR's The 50 Best Albums of 2023
Recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in April 2022 in performances conducted by Los Angeles Philharmonic Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, Dante is a ballet score in three acts - “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso” - inspired by the alternately chilling and sunlit landscapes of Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia.
Written in the 14th century, this seminal Italian poem recounts an initiatory journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Adès and choreographer Wayne McGregor brought this medieval Christian fantasy to life in London 2021 with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Ballet via a narrative arc about a young woman named Beatrice who embodies a promise of love and hope.
This concert performance of the ballet score by the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the work’s world-premiere audio recording.
Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Music & Artistic Director
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Recorded voices in Purgatorio:
Khazan Gabriel A. Shrem, and the Khazan and congregation of the Great Ades Synagogue, Jerusalem
Wayne McGregor, Choreographer (The Dante Project)
Tacita Dean, Design (The Dante Project)
Featured in the New York Times Best Classical Music Albums of 2023
Featured in NPR's The 50 Best Albums of 2023
Recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in April 2022 in performances conducted by Los Angeles Philharmonic Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, Dante is a ballet score in three acts - “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso” - inspired by the alternately chilling and sunlit landscapes of Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia.
Written in the 14th century, this seminal Italian poem recounts an initiatory journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. Adès and choreographer Wayne McGregor brought this medieval Christian fantasy to life in London 2021 with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Ballet via a narrative arc about a young woman named Beatrice who embodies a promise of love and hope.
This concert performance of the ballet score by the Los Angeles Philharmonic is the work’s world-premiere audio recording.
Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Music & Artistic Director
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Recorded voices in Purgatorio:
Khazan Gabriel A. Shrem, and the Khazan and congregation of the Great Ades Synagogue, Jerusalem
Wayne McGregor, Choreographer (The Dante Project)
Tacita Dean, Design (The Dante Project)
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SKU
531504
Format: 2 CD set
Label: Nonesuch Records
Release date: 04/21/2023
Track List
Disc One
Inferno
I. Abandon Hope—
II. The Selfish—stung by wasps
III. The Ferryman
IV. Pavan of the Souls in Limbo—
V. Paolo and Francesca—the endless whirlwind
VI. The Gluttons—in slime
VII. The Suicides—the bleeding trees—
VIII. The Deviants—on burning sand—
IX. The Fortune-tellers—facing both ways
X. The Popes’ Adagio—heads first—
XI. The Hypocrites—in coats of lead
XII. The Thieves—devoured by reptiles
XIII. Satan—in the lake of ice
Disc Two
Purgatorio
I. Dawn on the Sea of Purgatory—
II. Mount Purgatory—
III. The Valley of Flowers—
IV. The Healing Fire—
V. The Earthly Paradise—
VI. The Heavenly Procession—
VII. The Ascent
Paradiso
Paradise—Moon—Mercury—Venus—Sun—Mars—Jupiter (The Eagle)—
Saturn (The Golden Ladder)—Fixed Stars—Empyrean
Label: Nonesuch Records
Release date: 04/21/2023
Track List
Disc One
Inferno
I. Abandon Hope—
II. The Selfish—stung by wasps
III. The Ferryman
IV. Pavan of the Souls in Limbo—
V. Paolo and Francesca—the endless whirlwind
VI. The Gluttons—in slime
VII. The Suicides—the bleeding trees—
VIII. The Deviants—on burning sand—
IX. The Fortune-tellers—facing both ways
X. The Popes’ Adagio—heads first—
XI. The Hypocrites—in coats of lead
XII. The Thieves—devoured by reptiles
XIII. Satan—in the lake of ice
Disc Two
Purgatorio
I. Dawn on the Sea of Purgatory—
II. Mount Purgatory—
III. The Valley of Flowers—
IV. The Healing Fire—
V. The Earthly Paradise—
VI. The Heavenly Procession—
VII. The Ascent
Paradiso
Paradise—Moon—Mercury—Venus—Sun—Mars—Jupiter (The Eagle)—
Saturn (The Golden Ladder)—Fixed Stars—Empyrean
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