The Italian premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Eudousi for baritone and ensemble will be performed on November 30 in Rome at the Filarmonica Romana (Sala Casella) by the baritone Carlo Miccioli and the Roman Vlad Ensemble under the direction of Gabriele Bonolis.

Eudousi (They sleep/Dormono), commissioned and performed for the first time by the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in 2012, is based on a fragment of the Greek lyric poet Alcman, who lived in Sparta in the second half of the 7th Century B.C.

Battistelli uses the Italian translation by Giovanni Pascoli while leaving some words in the original Greek as a reminder of the ancient past. The famous fragment describes in a highly suggestive manner a nocturnal scene and the sleep in which all the elements of nature are immersed. The instruments express musically the infinitely subtle shades of Alcman’s words, and the instrumental part, participating in the rite of evocation and contemplation of the night, has the formal structure of a nocturne.

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