Prometeo

This recording presents an unusual pairing of the complete string quartets by Szymanowski and Debussy. Szymanowksi is one of Poland’s most famous composers. Influences on his style are many (Bartók’s percussive and motoric drive, Ravel’s coloristic sonorities) but he found his own personal language, lush, opulent, rich and sometimes exotic, always expressing a deep emotional content. Debussy’s string quartet dates from his early years, a beautiful and romantic work, the French answer to Wagner’s richly chromatic language.

Punished for stealing the fire from the gods to bring the light of science and art to men, Prometheus has to endure darkness. In Luigi Nono’s “tragedy of listening” Prometeo the hero’s fate and his inner conflicts are transformed into a deeply impressive listening experience with the help of a fascinating spatial sound concept. It comes into its own in a rare performance at the spectacular Baroque cultural monument Teatro Farnese, conducted by Marco Angius.

Chi sono i creativi nell'epoca della conoscenza? Un viaggio nel tempo e nello spazio per capire come la creatività ha dato forma al mondo. Chi sono i creativi oggi, da dove vengono? Questo libro li colloca in una precisa genealogia: sono gli eredi di Prometeo e Faust, dell'uomo creatore di Nietzsche e dell'imprenditore innovativo di Schumpeter, delle avanguardie europee novecentesche e della grande migrazione in America, fino ai tecnologi visionari della Silicon Valley.

La guerra de los Olímpicos contra los Titanes acaba de terminar con la victoria de los primeros, guiados por Zeus. Pero la euforia deja pronto paso al aburrimiento. No pasa nada en el universo. Entonces, para distraer a los dioses anestesiados lentamente por la paz, Zeus le pide a Prometeo que fabrique a los mortales para que la historia y la vida vuelvan al cosmos. Prometeo imagina a una especie que, dotada del fuego y de la técnica, estará por encima de las demás, lo que le valdrá la ira de su "patrocinador", convencido éste de que la humanidad amenaza el orden del mundo…

Prometeo, de Christophe Bec, es una saga encuadrada en la ciencia ficción que nos pone en el supuesto de que una serie de acontecimientos totalmente inexplicados se ponen en marcha sobre la tierra. Estos extraños fenómenos, que empiezan durante el mes de septiembre del 2019, tienen lugar siempre a la misma hora, las 13 horas 13 minutos. ¿Qué significan estos hechos y por qué ocurren siempre a la misma hora? ¿Anuncian el fin de la humanidad o al menos del mundo tal como lo conocemos?

Conspiraciones políticas, artefactos alienígenas, viajes temporales, mitología clásica… ¡Prometeo, la obra maestra de Christophe Bec y Stefano Raffaele cuenta con todo ello y mucho más, con un relato épico que te dejará sin aliento!

The original score of El Prometeo (Prometheus) is held in the Leopoldine Library in Vienna. It dates from 1669 and was written by Antonio Draghi, a composer who was also a singer, notably in the operas of Cavalli. For the first time in history, an Italian set a text in Spanish. The last act of El Prometeo has disappeared. But since the libretto of this act has survived, Leonardo García Alarcón decided to rewrite all the music for it. ‘I immersed myself in Draghi’s music in order to understand his style, his favourite intervals, the type of melody he composed and the type of basso continuo he was fond of, so as to try to produce a score that is worthy of him.