Reflections, aphorisms, exercises in style, work notes, harmonic experiments, tone explorations. This is the world premiere recording of Giacomo Scelsi’s Preludes for solo piano, an early work in which the composer through harmonic experiment and tonal exploration is trying out different styles of composition. The music reveals to us a period of his creative activity still little known or explored. Assembled in four series, the Preludes are still to this day largely unpublished and are the object of recently renewed research. The work of rearranging, listing and cataloguing his music being undertaken by the Isabella Scelsi Foundation nevertheless makes it possible to start to shed light on these early works, and this recording is one of the first tangible results of this research. Part of the material was re-assembled despite the difficulties during 2005, and since then further material has been recovered so that today we are able to present the Prelude in something like their entirety.
Alessandra Ammara has drawn the attention of the musical world since achieving brilliant results in some of the more important international piano competitions, such as the "A. Casagrande" in Terni, and the "Esther Honens" in Calgary, Canada. She has performed all over Europe (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Gasteig in Munich, Philharmonie in Berlin), and has collaborated with many great artist, incuding Alban Gerhardt, Roberto Prosseda, the Sine Nomine Quartet, and the Takacs Quartet. Alessandra Ammara graduated from the "L. Cherubini" Conservatory of Florence with Roberto Caglieri and from the Accademia Pianistica of Imola with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky. Her 2009 engagements include concerts at the Musikverein in Vienna with Wiener Symphoniker, at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, and her third appearance with the Calgary Philharmonic.
