Giacinto Scelsi News
Italian composer and poet (1905-1988)
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2024-03-28
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2024-02-23 18:56:49
[…] of our own potential self-destruction. It was first heard at the Lucerne festival in 2017. Kopatchinskaja has performed it with multiple ensembles since, including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, in Glasgow, during Cop26 in 2021. For the London premiere her collaborators were the Aurora Orchestra and Aurora Voices, whose intensity match Kopatchinskaja’s uncompromising vision and the almost dogged commitment of her playing.It’s unsparing stuff. We walk into the venue to the unnerving sound of Giacinto Scelsi’s Okanagon with its rhythmic thuds and clanging gongs. We hear the tramp of marching feet as Kopatchinskaja leads on a small group of players for Heinrich Biber’s Battalia à 10, written in 1673, its movements interwoven with extracts from George Crumb’s Black Angels for amplified string quartet, composed in protest at the Vietnam war. The effect is unnerving as Biber’s strident dissonance, remarkable for the 17th century, collapse and morph into Crumb’s bitter musical […]
2022-04-07 12:00:00
Giuseppe Pennisi listens to music by Giacinto Scelsi. '... possessed by sounds, trapped in fingertips that are constantly forced to move.'
2021-08-09 12:00:00
Giuseppe Pennisi listens to piano music by twentieth century Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi. 'The rendering by Sabine Liebner is spotless, in spite of the many traps of both scores.'
2021-01-09 09:41:31
Mysteries: Luxembourg-born pianist Sabine Weyer on how combining music by a Soviet Russian composer and contemporary French one made a satisfying new disc
[…] capitalist country. So, Sabine does not find it surprising that we do not know the music and that it is only now getting better known. Myaskovsky's music is now available in the West and his piano sonatas are published by Le chant du monde (an imprint now owned by Wise Music Classical). Born in Paris, Nicolas Bacri studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his music was initially conventially modernist but an encounter with composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), known for compositions based on a single pitch, with microtonal alterations, changes of dynamics, timbre, whilst Bacri was studying at the French Academy in Rome had a profound effect, and Bacri realised that complexity and extreme material were not necessary, he began to explore tradition. For a long period his music remained outside the scope of the new music establishment in France, but things have relaxed somewhat recently. He remains one of the […]
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