Soprano Silvia Frigato is a regular guest at La Fenice in Venice and has toured globally with the Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Recording & Production
This recording includes a world premiere of two essential moments from Fano's opera Juturna, which was never staged during the composer's lifetime.
Compositional Technique
In his setting of Pascoli's 'Il sogno della vergine', Fano used innovative musical idioms like the hexatonic scale, harmony in fourths, and strong, atonal chromaticism.
Composition History
Fano's only opera, Juturna, was composed between 1909 and 1912, with a libretto by Ettore Tolomei, a politician and architect of the Italianisation of Alto Adige.
Performer Biography
Pianist Aldo Orvieto has recorded over ninety discs for various labels and has received praise from major composers like Nono, Petrassi, and Kagel.
Composer Biography
Guido Alberto Fano's vocal chamber works mark three crucial phases of his artistic growth, from his training in Bologna to his later creative period after the 1930s.
Composition History
Fano's settings of D'Annunzio's poems were composed in 1945, seven years after the poet's death, while Fano was in hiding from Nazi deportations.
