Il Piave mormorò

The anthems which heralded Italy’s entrance into the Great war and the songs that accompanied the long days in the trenches, presented in their original simplicity by a voice and a piano, are interwoven with poetry by literates such as Corrado Govoni, Pietro Jahier, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ardegno Soffici, Corrado Alvaro, Renato Perseni and Carlo Delcroix, some of which were personally involved on the front, and the diaries and letters of infantrymen who died fighting for freedom. It is the literary and musical reading of the first world war, a massacre which led to between 15 and 17 million deaths.

Program

Testi di Corrado Govoni, Pietro Jahier, Quintilio Cantini, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ardengo Soffici, Claudio Giletti Barberis, Antonio Bergamas, Corrado Alvaro, Renato Perseni, Carlo Delcroix

Musiche di Virginia Niccolini, Dalfranchi, Ettore Lucatello, Columbo Arona, Vittorio Gui, Orazio Ugolini, Silvano Ruffo, Antonio Meneghetti, Carlo Pieracci, Anonimo

Con le voci di Luigi Cadorna e Armando Diaz

Artists

Tenore
Leonardo De Lisi

Pianoforte
Leonardo Previero

Voce recitante
Rosa Sarti