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artist: Giacinto Scelsi
title: Action Music No.1/Suite No.8
date: 2003
label: kairos
genre: Avantgarde
rls. date: Feb/2004
tracks: 15
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 65,10 MB
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ACTION MUSIC N░ 1, SUITE N░ 8
Bernhard Wambach (Piano)
Giacinto ScelsiÆs relationship with the piano is interesting
and contradictory. For no other instrument has the Italian
composer and poet composed so many pieces; to no other
instrument does he seem so closely attached, both personally
and biographically; and no other instrument disappeared so
abruptly and finally from his scores as the piano, the European
showcase instrument. With the piano, we can follow the break
lines and developments in the musical thinking and works of
Giacinto Scelsi, which are key to an understanding of his
striking compositional development. As late piano compositions,
Action music and Suite Nr. 8 mark a transition to Giacinto
ScelsiÆs new musical language: the exploration of the
individual sound, the inclination to a sound-energetic
agglomeration, the gesture of improvisation - all this is also
clearly discernable in both his works.
composer:
The composer and author was born in La Spezia (Italy) in 1905.
He took composition classes in Rome, Geneva and Vienna, where
he studied with one of Arnold Schoenberg's disciples; after
some years of travelling, he decided in 1952 to settle down in
Rome. In his early works, Scelsi followed the imperatives of
neo-classicism, whereas later he turned to twelve-tone music
and the oeuvre of Alexander Skriabin. However, his most
important compositions are those written in and after the 1950s
at the end of a severe psychological crisis. In these pieces,
he developed a very individual concept of musical expression
essentially influenced by his studies of oriental philosophies.
Rhythm and interrelations between individual tones retreated to
the background whereas his creative energy concentrated
entirely on the universe of tone and sound. In 1988, Giacinto
Scelsi died in Rome.
artists:
Born 1948, he studied in Bremen and Hamburg. He attended
courses with Friedrich Gulda from 1973 to 1977 and participated
in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt
from 1978 to 1982.
Laureate of the International Arnold Sch÷nberg Competition in
Rotterdam (1979) and of the Kranichsteiner Music Award (1982).
He has travelled the world, concerting in Europe as well as in
Israel, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, and India. He worked
together with composers such as Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono,
Xenakis, Kagel, Rihm, Lachenmann, Hosokawa, Kalitzke, Huber,
StΣbler, and many more.
Piano courses at the International Summer Courses for New Music
in Darmstadt, the Centre Acanthes Avignon, the Akiyoshidai
Music Festival in Japan, in Korea, Italy, China and Taiwan.
Professor for piano and new music at Folkwang College for Music
in Essen since 1989.
tracklisting:
Action music N░ 1 for piano (1995) 18:01
I. Poco piu mosso, Veloce 2:23
II. Iniziando e subito accelerando ... 1:38
III. Lento dolce (tutto col palmo della mano) 1:25
IV. Martellato 1:14
V. Violento 2:45
VI. Brillante 2:06
VII. Pesante 2:09
VIII. Veloce 1:41
IX. Con fuoco 2:35
Suite N░ 8 for piano (1952) 29:51
(BOT-BA - An evocation of Tibet with its monasteries in the
high mountains:
Tibetan rituals, prayers and dances)
I. Agitato 4:04
II. Non troppo sostenuto 7:00
III. 5:29
IV. Lento 4:44
V. Lento 3:35
(http://www.kairos-music.com/releases/0012312kai.html)
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01-Action music N░ 1-Poco piu mosso, Veloce [02:23]
02-Action music N░ 1-Iniziando e subito accelerando ... [01:38]
03-Action music N░ 1-Lento dolce [01:25]
(tutto col palmo della mano)
04-Action music N░ 1-Martellato [01:14]
05-Action music N░ 1-Violento [02:45]
06-Action music N░ 1-Brillante [02:07]
07-Action music N░ 1-Pesante [02:09]
08-Action music N░ 1-Veloce [01:41]
09-Action music N░ 1-Con fuoco [02:43]
10-Suite N░ 8-Agitato [04:04]
11-Suite N░ 8-Non troppo sostenuto [07:00]
12-Suite N░ 8-untitled [05:30]
13-Suite N░ 8-Lento [04:44]
14-Suite N░ 8-Lento [03:35]
15-Suite N░ 8-Lento [04:56]
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47:54 min
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