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Out of Darkness

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The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola was preoccupied with the theme of liberty, subject of his opera The Prisoner and the choral Songs of Imprisonment, both dating from the Second World
War. In conversation with Dallapiccola's widow Laura and colleague Pierluigi Petrobelli ,
Graham Fawcett traces the composer's musical devotion to the issues of freedom and the loss of it which surrounded him in the 30s and 40s. With Dallapiccola's music, archive recordings of his voice and readings from an autobiographical fragment.
('The Prisoner' tomorrow, 'Ulisse on Wednesday, 7.30pm)

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Unknown:
Luigi Dallapiccola
Unknown:
Pierluigi Petrobelli
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Graham Fawcett
Source: Radio Times

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