Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s melodies are part of the world’s musical memory. His operas, devotedly dealing with fundamental questions of human existence, are as popular as ever. In addition to the dramatic masterworks, his late works feature a final touch of psychological and compositional techniques. In the third part of the Opera Companion Orpheus, you can listen to how a theme that is approached in a contrapuntal fashion wraps itself around the soul, like a deadly spider’s web, and how the severe form of the fugue can serve as a vessel for explosive playfulness.

ISMN 979-0-2042-2853-9
ISBN 978-3-938809-53-2
Sy. 2853 (2 CDs)

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