Salvatore Sciarrino: Solo

Featuring

Joonas Ahonen
Vera Fischer
Virginie Tarrête
Sophie Schafleitner
Gerald Preinfalk
Benedikt Leitner

Bernhard Zachhuber
Florian Müller
Christoph Walder
Salvatore Sciarrino

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Salvatore Sciarrino, the composer, believes that music should focus on the listener, appealing to their associative ability and emphasizing the sensual component of sound.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Salvatore Sciarrino coined the term 'Ecologia del suono' or 'Ecology of Sound' to describe the totality of humanity's sound environment, advocating for immersion in silence for ideal music reception.

Compositional Technique

Salvatore Sciarrino's music often evokes natural sounds like cricket chirps, bird calls, or breathing, not through mere imitation, but by internalizing his sound environment and transforming it into musical language.

Composer Biography

Salvatore Sciarrino, born in Palermo in 1947, considers himself self-taught and began composing at age twelve, with his personal style emerging around 1966.

Performer Biography

Since 2009, the musicians of Klangforum Wien have held a collective professorship at the University of Music, Graz, sharing their expertise with new generations of artists.

Performer Biography

Klangforum Wien, the ensemble on this album, was founded by Beat Furrer in 1985 and has premiered approximately 600 works by composers from four continents.