Luigi Nono - Y entonces comprendió

Y entonces comprendió, for four-track magnetic tape, six voices and choir. Text by Carlos Franqui and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1970)

Gabriela Ravazzi, Liliana Poli & Mary Lindsay, sopranos
Kadigia Bove, Elena Vicini & Miriam Acevedo, actresses

Coro Da Camera Della RAI
Nino Antonellini, chorus master
Luigi Nono

The Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990) was one of the most socially engaged of 20th-century composers. His Marxist political views influenced most of his avant-garde compositions. Nono was an active member of the Italian Communist Party, and he often used Marxist texts and revolutionary writings as a basis for his compositions. In the mid-1950s, his highly ideological scores attracted notoriety. "An artist must concern himself with his time," Nono said. "Injustice dominates in our time. As man and musician I must protest." Nono's Y entonces comprendió (1970) includes a tape recording of Cuban premiere Fidel Castro reading letters of Marxist guerrilla fighter Che Guevara.

Art by Pedro Pablo Oliva