Giacinto ScelsiFeaturing: Michiko Hirayama
Canti Del Capricorno
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*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".
Format
Co-Produktion mit Deutschlandradio / Aufnahme, Stadthaus Ulm, 2.-4. Mai 2006
Housed in jewel case with 32 page booklet containing liner notes in German and English.
Total playing time: 58:12.
© + ℗ 2007 WERGO, a division of Schott Music & Media GmbH, Mainz, Germany
Manufactured in Austria - Printed in Austria
Made in EU
Release notes
Co-Produktion mit Deutschlandradio / Aufnahme, Stadthaus Ulm, 2.-4. Mai 2006 Housed in jewel case with 32 page booklet containing liner notes in German and English. Total playing time: 58:12. © + ℗ 2007 WERGO, a division of Schott Music & Media GmbH, Mainz, Germany Manufactured in Austria - Printed in Austria Made in EU
| 1 | Canto No. 1 For Voice And Gong | 2:57 | |
| 2 | Canto No. 2 For Voice | 2:44 | |
| 3 | Canto No. 3 For Voice | 2:34 | |
| 4 | Canto No. 4 For Voice And Double Bass | 3:27 | |
| 5 | Canto No. 5 For Voice | 2:28 | |
| 6 | Canto No. 6 For Voice | 2:24 | |
| 7 | Canto No. 7 For Voice And Saxophone | 2:38 | |
| 8 | Canto No. 8 For Voice | 2:27 | |
| 9 | Canto No. 9 For Voice | 2:29 | |
| 10 | Canto No. 10 For Voice | 3:45 | |
| 11 | Canto No. 11 For Voice | 1:49 | |
| 12 | Canto No. 12 For Voice | 3:18 | |
| 13 | Canto No. 13 For Voice | 2:01 | |
| 14 | Canto No. 14 For Voice | 3:42 | |
| 15 | Canto No. 15 For Voice And Percussion | 3:00 | |
| 16 | Canto No. 16 For Voice With Live Electronics | 3:56 | |
| 17 | Canto No. 17 For Voice | 3:12 | |
| 18 | Canto No. 18 For Voice | 3:15 | |
| 19 | Canto No. 19 For Voice And Percussion | 2:32 | |
| 20 | Canto No. 20 For Voice And Recorder | 2:07 |
- Frank Kämpfer
- Co-producer
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Composed By
- hj.kropp
- Cover [Cover Art]
- Matthias Bauer
- Double Bass
- Robert Schneider
- Engineer [Tonmeister], Edited By [Digitalschnitt]
- Michiko Hirayama
- Gong (1), Recorder (20), Voice
- Jürgen Kanold
- Liner Notes
- Steven Lindberg
- Liner Notes [English Translation]
- Jürgen Grözinger
- Percussion, Producer
- Roland Neffe
- Percussion
- Andrea Thamm
- Photography By
- Eva Stotz
- Photography By
- Georg Krause
- Photography By
- Miriam May
- Photography By
- Rainer Schlenz
- Photography By
- Rolf W. Stoll
- Photography By, Producer
- Ulrich Krieger
- Saxophone
