Salvatore Sciarrino: Musiche Per Il "Paradiso" Di Dante

Featuring

Andrea Biagini
Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi
Garth Knox
Marco Angius
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Salvatore Sciarrino

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Recording & Production

Salvatore Sciarrino himself provided musical supervision for this recording, ensuring the interpretation aligned with his artistic vision.

Compositional Technique

The composition 'L'invenzione della trasparenza' uses a 'disconcerting as well as vertiginous absolute emptiness' to create musical transparency, with elements remaining audible through subsequent sound phases.

Compositional Technique

In 'Alfabeto Oscuro,' the orchestra attempts to speak, with instruments obsessively acting out a language of sounds, and consonants laboriously emerging.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sciarrino's 'Musiche per il 'Paradiso' di Dante' highlights a correspondence with Dante's poetic inventions, particularly his pioneering study of transparency and iridescence in medieval paintings.

Composer Biography

Salvatore Sciarrino's extensive catalogue of compositions, spanning over 50 years, is still in a phase of surprising creative development.

Composer Biography

Salvatore Sciarrino, the composer, began composing at age twelve and considers works before 1966 as an apprenticeship, as his personal style emerged then.