Scelsi Edition Volume 10

Description

The Isabella Scelsi Foundation promotes the production of contemporary music in a broad and structured manner, with particular attention to the work of its founder, Giacinto Scelsi. In this context, the Scelsi Collection series was created in close collaboration with the Stradivarius label, showcasing the Maestro's works performed by renowned musicians and vocal and instrumental ensembles. The CD we present here is the most extraordinary one imaginable, in the exact sense of the term: in fact, it documents and testifies to Giacinto Scelsi's unique creative process. The project, conceived under the presidency of Professor Irmela Heimbächer and edited by composer and musicologist Friedrich Jaecker, presents the heart of Scelsi's universe, featuring two recordings of the composer's improvisations, which generated the pieces that would take shape in the subsequent process of "materialization," alongside the related "musical products," with performances of the highest quality. The "mystery" of Giacinto Scelsi is thus, for once, unveiled along his most intimate path! The CD is a unique achievement, created as an example, to allow everyone – musicians, researchers, and enthusiasts – to gain insight into the extraordinary epiphany that was renewed in Scelsi with each of his pieces and that gave birth to works considered among the greatest expressions of music at the end of the 20th century.