Prometeo, tragedia dell'ascolto

At last a new recording of Luigi Nono's late, great masterpiece. Comes complete with a specially produced "listening score" to guide the listener through the dense network of texts set by the composer. This is one of the most important and challenging works of the late 20th century.

One of the most significant musical works of the twentieth century is now available in an archive-quality recording. Only now, using surround-sound technology can the twenty-six channels be balanced out and distributed, spatially and dynamically, with minute accuracy across the five speakers: a time-consuming and fascinating task, evoking the optimist Sisyphus. With this double SACD, André Richard and Peter Hirsch's team, who had already worked on the first performance of the then new Prometeo in Milan in 1985 with Luigi Nono and Claudio Abbado, have created a great and unrepeatable work of interpretation and recording art.