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Article: Recordings -- Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero and Canti di Prigionia by Jorma Hynninen and others with Swedish Radio under Esa-Pekka Salonen
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- Opera News
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- February 3, 1996
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DALLAPICCOLA: Il Prigioniero/Canti di Prigionia
Bryn-Julson; Humninen, Haskin; Swedish Radio, Salonen. Sony SK-68323
Luigi Dallapiccola's concern with unjust imprisonment (he himself suffered under the post-Mussolini Fascist tyranny toward the end of World War II) reached its apex in these powerful scores composed in the late 1940s. They became popular during the mid-1950s, when Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty was imprisoned by the Hungarian Communist government, and most performances of Dallapiccola's one-act shocker Il Prigioniero (including that presented in 1960 by New York City Opera, with Leopold Stokowski conducting and Norman Treigle as an unforgettably cadaverous ...