La Commedia Digital FLAC Album

La Commedia Digital FLAC AlbumLouis Andriessen's Grawemeyer Awardwinning film opera La Commedia, a collaboration with director Hal Hartley, is based on Dante's Divine Comedy, with additional texts including the Old Testament's "Song of Songs." This Dutch National Opera production features the Asko Schnberg Ensembles, led by Reinbert de Leeuw. The Washington Post calls La Commedia "an exciting, powerful and rich piece that shows Andriessen at the top of his game." The Los Angeles

and Natalie Merchant—to perform a concert entitled Folk Songs

"Her singing offers structure to textures that are ethereal

" Gramophone calls it "a powerful and personal farewell from one of the 20th century’s most distinctive voices

"This the best way I can find to pay my tribute to Amália

The New York Times says

Emily Brontë

during the 1940s and '50s

for this album

among other luminaries of musical theater

Inside Llewyn Davis stars Oscar Isaac

and immensely powerful

"Plant and his collaborators create music that overflows with irrepressible life force