Cello and piano.

Comissioned by Carlos Prieto.

Version of one aria from Una voce in off.

Comments

"Invenció a la Italiana was born in 1999 as a commission from the cellist Carlos Prieto. In fact, it is an aria from my opera Una voce in off, transfigured and transported to a different tessitura. I thought that this aria had a kind of melody very suitable for the cello to play."

Xavier Montsalvatge, 2001.