Giacinto Scelsi
Action Music
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Giacinto Scelsi’s 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 develop-ments 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 Scelsi’s 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.
As late piano compositions, Action music and Suite Nr. 8 mark a transition to Giacinto Scelsi’s 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.
Details
Cat. number: 0012312KAI
Year: 2003
Format
Recording: Sendesaal Radio Bremen, 17.-20.4.2001
Release notes
Action Music N° 1 For Piano: 1955 Suite N° 8 For Piano: 1952 Recording: Sendesaal Radio Bremen, 17.-20. 4. 2001 Packaged in a SmartPac with a fifteen page booklet affixed.
Tracklist
| Action Music N° 1 For Piano | |||
| 1 | I. Poco Piu Mosso, Veloce | 2:23 | |
| 2 | II. Iniziando E Subito Accelerando... | 1:38 | |
| 3 | III. Lento Dolce (Tutto Col Palmo Della Mano) | 1:25 | |
| 4 | IV. Martellato | 1:14 | |
| 5 | V. Violento | 2:45 | |
| 6 | VI. Brillante | 2:06 | |
| 7 | VII. Pesante | 2:09 | |
| 8 | VIII. Veloce | 1:41 | |
| 9 | IX. Con Fuoco | 2:35 | |
| Suite N° 8 For Piano | |||
| 10 | I. Agitato | 4:04 | |
| 11 | II. Non Troppo Sostenuto | 7:00 | |
| 12 | III. | 5:29 | |
| 13 | IV. Lento | 4:44 | |
| 14 | V. Lento | 3:35 | |
| 15 | VI. Lento | 4:56 | |
Credits
- Jakob Gasteiger
- Artwork [Cover-Artwork]
- Isabelle Dupont
- Booklet Editor
- Klaus Schumann
- Engineer [Sound-Engineer]
- Grafik Schinnerl
- Layout
- Bernhard Wambach
- Piano
- Marita Emigholz
- Producer
- Andreas Heintzeler
- Recording Supervisor, Mastered By
- Christoph Romanowski
- Technician [Soundtechnics]
- Ulrike Franz-Heintzeler
- Technician [Soundtechnics]
