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With this album, the ninth dedicated by KAIROS to Salvatore Sciarrino and thus honoring his 75th birthday in 2022, the Orchestra del Padova e del Veneto under Marco Angius presents the great orchestral cycle "Musiche per il Paradiso di Dante" from 1993. With the three soloists Garth Knox, Andrea Biagini and Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi, the orchestra is assisted by three proven specialists in Sciarrino's music, inviting the listener on a journey into the incomparable sonic diversity of the world of the Italian grand seigneur. "The orchestra seems to want to speak," writes Sciarrino. "The nature of the instruments would not allow it, and yet they recite as if possessed, and we listen, almost without understanding. Almost. The end of every journey presupposes and brings to mind the beginning. Alighieri's whole paradise explains, to express itself, the inability to express itself."

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Recording: Theatre of Istituto Barbarigo, Padua/Italy, 2–3 July 2021.