Good interoduction to orchestral music of Luigi Dallapiccola, very well interpreted

Luigi Dallapiccola was born in 1904 in Pisino (Italy, Pazin today in Croatia). He studied piano at the Conservatory of Florence, and composition at the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" with Vito Frazzi (1888-1975). He became professor in 1931, and among his pupils, one can particularly note Halim El-Dabh (born in 1921), Raymond Wilding-White (1922-2001), Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Noel Da Costa ( 1929-2002), Donald Martino (1931-2005), Arlene Zallman (1934-2006), Bernard Rands (born 1934), Ernesto Rubin de Cervin (born in 1936), or even Abraham Zalman Walker (born 1948) . Dallapiccola began to politically oppose fascism during the military campaign of Abyssinia, Italian commitment during the Spanish Civil War, the merger of Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler and the enactment in 1938 of the "laws racial "(his wife Laura Luzzatto was of Jewish origin) and, during the Second World War he was active in the resistance to Nazism. Musically, he was influenced, from 1930, by the serialism of the Second Viennese School, especially by Anton Webern (1883-1945) and Alban Berg (1885-1935), however, it deals in the Italian tradition "bel canto" through serial techniques he developed in order to allow greater expression of lyricism. Profoundly humanist, Luigi Dallapiccola treated particularly in his opera "Night Flight" (1938) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Prisoner" (1948) after Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and " Ulysses "(1968) according to Homer, or his cantata" Songs of Prisons "(1941), the theme of Man, in an essentially hostile society, without seeking to go to the end of his quest . He died in Florence in 1975.