The Retraction, O.116 (Verotta, Davide)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's Prelude - 7 Scenes - Postlude
Composition Year 2025
Genre Categories For voice, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; English language

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Performances

Recordings

 Prelude [B]
#1039434 - 1.13MB - 0:54 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

⇒ 7 more: I. How it will end • II. How one gets there • III. Yes, I met the devil • IV. Where are you love? • V. 1662 • Vi. My spells are not for you • VII. The last hour - Postlude

 I. How it will end [B]
#1039435 - 6.43MB - 6:11 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 II. How one gets there [B]
#1039436 - 10.37MB - 9:29 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 III. Yes, I met the devil [B]
#1039437 - 6.93MB - 6:54 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 IV. Where are you love? [B]
#1039438 - 4.86MB - 4:31 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 V. 1662 [B]
#1039439 - 6.17MB - 5:22 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 Vi. My spells are not for you [B]
#1039440 - 13.39MB - 12:38 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 VII. The last hour - Postlude [B]
#1039441 - 14.02MB - 12:28 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - U/U/U - MP3 - Davide Verotta

MP3 file (audio)
Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

Publisher Info. Davide Verotta, 2026.
Performers Amy Foote, soprano; Emilio Peña and Tim Selva, tenors; Jefferson Packer bass; Michael Long, violin, Jeşsie Nucho, flute, Vicky Ehrlich, cello; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano, Anne Szabla, percussion
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Sheet Music

Scores

 Complete Score [B]
#1039427 - 10.78MB, 108 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

PDF typeset by Davide Verotta
Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 Vocal Score [B]
#1039428 - 9.05MB, 99 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

PDF typeset by Davide Verotta
Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

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Parts

 Flute [B]
#1039429 - 1.77MB, 19 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

⇒ 4 more: Violin • Cello • Percussion • Piano

 Violin [B]
#1039430 - 2.02MB, 22 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 Cello [B]
#1039431 - 2.07MB, 23 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 Percussion [B]
#1039432 - 1.23MB, 12 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

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Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

 Piano [B]
#1039433 - 3.30MB, 37 pp.  - U/U/U - Davide Verotta

PDF typeset by Davide Verotta
Davide Verotta (2026/6/3)

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General Information

Work Title The Retraction
Alternative. Title
Composer Verotta, Davide
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. O.116
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IDV 87
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's Prelude - 7 Scenes - Postlude:

Prelude

  1. How it will end
  2. How one gets there
  3. Yes. I met the devil
  4. Where are you love
  5. 1662
  6. My spells are not for you
  7. The last hour

Postlude

Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 2025
First Performance. 2026/04/24
First Publication. 2026
Librettist Davide Verotta
Language English
Average DurationAvg. Duration 1 hours
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Modern
Piece Style Modern
Instrumentation soprano, bass, two tenors, flute, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Extra Information The Retraction serves partly as a timely warning of the perils of irrational thought and unchecked power, but mainly seeks to give a voice to Isobel Gowdie—a young woman at the bottom of the social order, tried for witchcraft in Auldearn, Scotland, in 1662, and destroyed by the wheels of a brutal and unjust society.
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