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Scelsi: Music for Cello Solo / Simonacci
Brilliant Classics

Scelsi: Music for Cello Solo / Simonacci

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Details

Composer
SCELSI, GIACINTO
Artist
Marco Simonacci
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Dec 01, 2017
Catalog #
BRI95355
UPC
5028421953557

About

An aristocratic background, Eastern philosophies, private study with Modernist luminaries of the early 20th century and a determined pursuit of solitude: all in their ways contribute to the unique soundworld of Giacinto Scelsi’s music. Despite shunning personal publicity, however, the composer surrounded himself with friends and favorite performers, among them the American-born, Dutch cellist Frances-Marie Uitti who came to represent Scelsi on the world stage in his latter years. To her care he entrusted Trilogy, which forms the main work on this album of solo cello music. Comprising Triphon, Dithome and the Sanskritinspired Ygghur, the Trilogy is still to some extent dependent on the Expressionist language he had learnt from disciples of Schoenbergian serialism, yet already personal to him, and now a classic of 20th-century solo cello repertoire. The album is completed by the two fleeting movements of Voyages from 1974, which deploy disembodied harmonics and other techniques familiar from Scelsi’s music.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Triphon: Jugend 07:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Triphon: Jugend
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  2. 2 I. Triphon: Energie 04:28
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Triphon: Energie
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  3. 3 I. Triphon: Drama 05:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Triphon: Drama
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  4. 4 II. Dithome 16:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Dithome
    Duration
    16:26
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  5. 5 III. Igghur: Alter 07:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Igghur: Alter
    Duration
    07:39
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  6. 6 III. Igghur: Erinnerung 03:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Igghur: Erinnerung
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  7. 7 III. Igghur: Katharsis 04:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Igghur: Katharsis
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  8. 8 I. Il allait seul 06:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Il allait seul
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci
  9. 9 II. Le fleuve magique 03:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Le fleuve magique
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Performer
    Marco Simonacci