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KAI 15063CD
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"Giacinto Scelsi is one of the most original Italian composers of the twentieth century. The symbolic choice of Rome as his home represented Scelsi's own cultural, artistic and spiritual interests. His fascination for Eastern philosophies, Yoga and Zen meditation are combined with a insightful knowledge of Christian, Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythologies; Scelsi's library and collection of recordings displays his cultural interests, his curiosity and openness to the intricacies of the mind and his lifelong quest for a dialogue between different expressions of human spirituality. Marco Fusi, one of the leading performers of contemporary music, presents his readings of some of Scelsi's intriguing works for violin and for viola solo. For the listener, this is a journey into a futuristic vision from a past era."
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NEOS 10722CD
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2013 repress. Performed by Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Peter Rundel & Hans Zender. Plus: Elisabeth Zawadke (organ). Features: "Chukrum for Large String Orchestra" (1963); "Quattro Pezzi for Orchestra" (1959); "Natura Renovatur for Eleven Strings" (1967); "Hymnos for Organ and Two Orchestra Groups" (1963). Live recordings: Munich, February 2, 2001; March 3, 2006.
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RZ 1014CD
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2002 release. Features 6 works, dating from 1961-1990. "Pranam I En souvenir de la perte tragique de Jani et Sia Christou" (für Stimme, 12 Instrumentalisten und Tonband, 1972); "Anagamin Celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas" (für 12 Streicher, 1965); "Quattro pezzi su una nota sola" (für Kammerorchester, 1959); "Quartetto n. 4", 1964); "Okanagon doit être considéré comme un rite et, si l'on veut, comme le battement de c?ur de la Terre für Harfe" (Tam Tam und Kontrabaß, 1968); "Quartetto n. 2" (1961). "For Giacinto Scelsi, music was above all a manifestation of the energy of sound in the making. Since the early 1950's, at the latest, the idea of sound as a cosmic force, rooted in the Indian notion of music, had become fundamental to his thinking -- from then on, tones and sounds were for him phenomena whose 'depth' had yet to be experienced. Rooted in these assumptions as well is Scelsi's belief that he as subject must completely withdraw, surrendering himself to that which endeavors to free itself through him."
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SR 302CD
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2CD collection which re-releases two previous Sub Rosa CDs Tre Canti Popolari (SR 051CD, 1992) and Due Componimenti Impetuosi (SR 063CD, 1995), now remastered and with a new design. This is the vocal and piano music of visionary Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988). Performed by: Marianne Pousseur, Lucy Grauman, Vincent Bouchot, Paul Gerimon, Georg Alexander Van Dam, Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, and Johan Bossers. Scelsi will always be known as an atypical composer. Throughout his life, he carefully stepped away from the obligatory musical currents (dodecaphonism, serial music etc.), using his fascination with tone and pure sound and asceticism to create naked, painful music on which silence has no appeasing effect. Extremely secretive (refusing to be photographed or even to sign his name), resolutely focused on mysticism, maybe converted to Buddhism, Scelsi has left a body of work that remains little known. However, his work is perhaps some of the most beautiful and uncompromising works of our time. He had no mentor, no pupils, but he did shed a lasting light on upholders of spectral music, verifying that sound is the cosmic force underpinning everything. Vocal and piano pieces that submit to the eternal tone.
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