Fantasia

Fin de siecle. I refer to ours, that of the 20th century, which promises to come to a pectacular conclusion within the space of three lustra; a word, this, still to be found in the opera librettos, in the songs and verses of the last century, the 19th century. A renewed interst in the music of a not-too-distant past tends to characterize, as it caught up in a vast tidal movement, the final stage of every epoch. We are witnessing, today, a large scale return to the manners of the past, and often the spectator has the peculiar sensation of encountering aural or visual echoes of that past, which he has not lived through yet which he recognizes as something familiar, accessible; a sort of enchantment. (...)
Sylvano Bussotti.

Lista utworów:
La Traviata, Fantasia op. 248 (Verdi Giuseppe)

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