*2022 stock* Giacinto Scelsi wrote the twenty Canti del Capricorno between 1962 and 1972 for and with the Japanese singer Michiko Hirayama, who inspired them and who for decades remained their unique performer. The cycle is for solo voice, with instruments in some of the songs: a spiritual yet energy-filled music made of single sounds, microtonal inflections, breath, cries and invented syllables, closer to ritual than to song.

Hirayama, born in 1923, recorded it for Wergo when she came to Ulm in May 2006 for a concert, in the series neue musik im stadthaus, working from the score with Scelsi's notes in his own hand, her treasure. She is a vocal power station here, once again very young, and the disc is a document of lived, immediate music, which she openly called her legacy.

Hirayama sings and also plays gong and recorder, with Ulrich Krieger (saxophone), Matthias Bauer (double bass), Jürgen Grözinger and Roland Neffe (percussion). Recommended by klassik.com, total time 58'12".