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Music : Styles : Classical : Featured Composers, A-Z : ( S ) : Scelsi, Giacinto

• The Silence of Being: The Music of Arvo Pärt [Box Set]

  Tonus Peregrinus, Elora Festival Singers

  
  
   

• Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass [Box Set]

  
  
   

• Scelsi: Natura Renovatur

  
  Giacinto Scelsi (1906-1988) was born into an aristocratic Italian family, whose wealth allowed him to pursue and develop his musical proclivities without material constraints. His early works were influenced by Berg and Stravinsky, among others, but after suffering a mental and creative crisis during the 1950s, he discarded Western tradition and withdrew into outer and inner seclusion. Through travel and reading, he discovered Buddhism and Sanskrit; transformed by their spirituality, he conceived a new kind of music. This recording features six works dating from 1956 to 1970. Fascinated with pure sound, Scelsi spoke of "the inner life of tones," and a "third dimension" beyond pitch and rhythm. Regarding himself not as a composer or creator, but as an emissary passing on what he received in a state of meditation and oblivion, he turned to improvising: first on the piano, then on the ondiola, an electronic melody instrument which can sustain, change, increase, and decrease sound. He stopped writing down his improvisations, instead recording them on tape to be transcribed later. This terribly difficult task fell primarily to the composer Vieri Tosatti and the cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, one of Scelsi's foremost champions. On this disc, Uitti, originator of an innovative technique of playing with two bows, gives an astonishing performance of three unaccompanied pieces, one dedicated to her. The other pieces are arranged for 11 or 16 string instruments, a natural medium offering maximum sonic flexibility and timbral diversity. The music is indeed sheer sound, sustained and static, without form, phrasing, articulation, or counterpoint. Variety is produced through sometimes extreme changes of dynamics, registers and textures, micro-pitches, and sound effects from whispers to screeches. The effect is certainly singular as well as mesmerizing. --Edith Eisler
  
   

• Annum Per Annum

  
  
   

• Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical

  
  John Cage s father once advised him: If someone says can t, that shows you what to do. It s a safe bet that the 16 iconoclastic composers on this aptly named Naxos of America compilation would agree wholeheartedly with that defiant sentiment.
  
  Sonic rebels one and all, they have consistently challenged accepted notions and standards of composition, performance, and even sound. Some have dedicated themselves to the subversion of existing musical forms; others have rejected those forms outright and created new ones of their own. Their anti-authority stance has been rooted as much in the social as the personal, directed at the dissonant trajectories of the century past as well as present. Faced with the uncertainties and complications of modern life, the onrush (some might say onslaught) of technology, and the growing instability both between and within nations, these artists have chosen to communicate their personal visions in a musical tone and language that is controversial, often confrontational, and always compelling.
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi: The Works for Double Bass

  
  
   

• SCELSI Giacinto - ORCHESTAL WORKS (Triphon)

  
  
   

• Chamber

  
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi: Music for High Winds

  
  
   

• Incantations: The Art of Song of Giacinto Scelsi

  
  
   

• Werner Bärtschi

  
  
   

• Nuits: Weiß wie Lilien

  
  
   

• Chanticleer: Sound in Spirit

  Chanticleer

  
  Sound in Spirit represents another leap forward in power and purpose for Chanticleer. On this recording they explore the profound connection between sound and healing. The repertoire weaves together compositions ancient and contemporary, East and West, so the listeners hear familiar and unfamiliar sounds in equal proportions. The texts and sounds are inspired by many different cultures along with religious and musical traditions from Tibet, India, Japan, Africa, indigenous America and Byzantine Greece.
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi: The Orchestral Works 2

  
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi

  
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi Collection, Vol. 4

  
  A well-known American pianist, specializing in mystic music, performs the music of a young Scelsi. The third installment in a successful series.
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi: Chamber Works for Flute & Piano

  
  For the first time, we can hear Giacinto Scelsi playing piano! It's short (3:51) and the recording quality substandard, but Scelsi's improvisation with Carin Levine, Krishna e Radha, gives a window into the mind of one of the greats--that until now we could only hear through the veils of transcription and composition. The other premiere is Quays, for alto flute (1954). Levine has made her mark in the avant of avant-garde flute. The remaining pieces here have all been recorded at least twice already. Kristi Becker gives welcomed new perspectives on the piano works Five Incantations and Four Illustrations. --Robert Regile
  
   

• Giancinto Scelsi: Chukrum; Quattro Pezzi; Natura Renovatur; Hymnos

  
  
   

• Scelsi: Orchestral Works 1

  
  
   

• Giacinto Scelsi Collection, Vol. 2

  
  Second installment in Stradivarius's series devoted to one of most intriguing musical personalities of the 20th century, Giacinto Scelsi, with the authoritative supervision of the Fondazione Scelsi.