Bernhard Wambach, the pianist on this album, is a laureate of the International Arnold Schönberg Competition and the Kranichsteiner Music Award.
Compositional Technique
Scelsi's compositional process always began with improvisation, viewing himself as a medium translating cosmic sound into written manifestation.
Performer Biography
Bernhard Wambach has collaborated with many notable contemporary composers, including Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono, and Xenakis.
Composer Biography
Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian composer and poet, experienced a ten-year crisis in the 1940s that required a stay in a psychiatric clinic and temporarily halted his compositional work.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Scelsi's musical vision centered on 'sound mysticism,' where he viewed a single tone as a harmonic cosmos and sound as a spiritually and energetically charged phenomenon.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Scelsi became increasingly alienated from Western music, believing it focused too much on musical form and neglected the 'laws of sound energy' and music as energy or life.
Compositional Technique
Scelsi developed a unique working method: improvising on keyboard instruments, recording these improvisations, having them transcribed by assistants, and then revising and instrumenting them.
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