Isabel Dombriz - Isabel Dombriz: Dante

According to some beliefs, during our lives we encounter doors, some leading toward the light and others toward the world of shadows. A question of choice. This disc opens the way toward both Inferno and Paradise. The paths taking us to Hades are represented by three scores, focused from different realities. Liszt�s Vall�e d�Obermann is a work dealing with spiritual decay and desperation, about questions with no answers. This desolation is shown musically in a descending theme opening with a chromatic semitone, symbol of plaint. With a similarly strong emotional charge, the music of Liszt�s Fun�railles recalls the funereal tolling of bells, filled with grief. The bitter pain of death. No place for light. In the �lacrimoso� Liszt�s soul weeps and implores. Miguel Bustamante�s Diabolus in musica alludes to the devil with the much-feared tritone � diminished fifth or augmented fourth as the occasion requires � an interval considered sinister since the Middle Ages: a constant creation of tension, overwhelming and implacable.