The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti formed both professional and personal ties with composer and mystic Giacinto Scelsi, and as a student of his in yoga and metaphysics, she became a spiritual disciple as well. It is natural, then, that she would champion his rarefied and esoteric music, especially his work for solo cello, Trilogy -- The Three Ages of Man ...
Fans of the mystically shaded and aesthetically rarefied keyboard music of Giacinto Scelsi will not need much prompting to snap up this 2006 disc, the third volume in Mode's comprehensive survey of the reclusive composer's piano works. With the eloquent and skillful pianist Aki Takahashi in absolute control of this mysterious and evanescent ...
There's a certain new age aspect to Sound in Spirit, an unusual release from the highly successful a cappella male chorus Chanticleer. But there's plenty here for steely-eyed rationalists, too. The disc marks a departure for this durable group, founded in 1978. "This is the first Chanticleer recording totally conceived for recording and remixing ...
Anyone even slightly familiar with Giacinto Scelsi's sui generis methods of composition may guess that his vocal music follows some of the same esoteric principles and ideas of his rarefied instrumental works. Outside the conventions of lieder or text setting, the pieces on this 2005 release from New Albion are really free fantasias for voice on ...
This CD presents three large pieces for orchestra by reclusive mid-twentieth century Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, two of which represent his mature period, and one of which is a transitional piece. The composer's mature works seem to have evolved without any connection to the history of western music, except in their use of standard ...
Those already initiated into the mysteries of Giacinto Scelsi may find his music a deep font of imagination and spirituality, but less sympathetic listeners may resist total immersion and feel skeptical about both its inscrutable organization and mediocre content. Setting aside Scelsi's personal eccentricities and granting that the improvisations ...
Naxos' bargain-priced compilation of three of its previously released discs of music by Philip Glass is especially valuable because it consists entirely of works for orchestra, a genre in which he is not especially well represented on recordings. (Many of his film scores are written for orchestra, but his absolute music -- symphonies and concertos ...
Five of the discs on this six-CD set are previously released Naxos recordings of a broad variety of works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The set offers a generous sampling of works spanning the composer's career, from his polystylistic Collage über BACH (1964) for orchestra to his 2001 Nunc dimittis for a cappella chorus. The bulk of the ...
The second volume of Stradivarius' collection of live performances from the Scelsi Festival presents seven pieces that are typical in their highly varied instrumentation, unpredictable styles, and quasi-mystical expressive qualities. Much of what makes this music attractive, especially for newcomers who otherwise might have little interest in ...
Much of what makes Giacinto Scelsi's music attractive (especially to newcomers who have had little other exposure to avant-garde music), is the unique mysticism that infuses his work -- a hybrid of eastern religious thought and personal revelations that contribute an ineffable quality to both the man and his art. Yet it's possible to separate ...
The quasi-improvisational, conceptual compositions of Giacinto Scelsi -- or, just as validly, his partly composed, conceptual improvisations -- leave most decisions up to the performer; these open-ended works appear almost as ideal Platonic forms, to be filled in and to exist concretely only when played. As a result, Scelsi's rarefied music is ...
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