Giacinto Scelsi: Suite 8 & 11 per pianoforte

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For anyone wishing to explore Scelsi’s music, this is a wonderful point of entry. As with her Cage, Stockhausen, Feldman, and a host of other composers, Liebner’s pianism brings a new level of... — Fanfare, September/October 2021 More…

Release Date: 16th Oct 2020
Catalogue No: WER73282
Label: Wergo
Length: 68 minutes

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Scelsi: Suite No. 8 – Bot-Ba per pianoforte

Work length30:20

$6.00

$8.40

Sabine Liebner

Track length3:43

$1.00

$1.40

Track length6:44

$1.00

$1.40

III

Track length5:47

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$1.40

Track length5:26

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$1.40

Track length3:44

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$1.40

Track length4:56

$1.00

$1.40

Scelsi: Suite No. 11 per pianoforte

Work length38:35

$9.50

$13.30

Sabine Liebner

Track length4:16

$1.00

$1.40

Track length4:46

$1.00

$1.40

III

Track length2:52

$1.00

$1.40

Track length7:12

$1.50

$2.10

Track length3:10

$1.00

$1.40

Track length5:04

$1.00

$1.40

VII

Track length3:59

$1.00

$1.40

VIII

Track length3:22

$1.00

$1.40

Track length3:54

$1.00

$1.40

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Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) is one of the most unusual composers of the twentieth century, a unique figure whose importance was only fully recognized and celebrated after his death. During his lifetime, he was often dismissed, especially in Italy, as a pretentious dilettante because he did not notate his music himself. Beginning in the mid-1950s, he recorded his improvisations at the piano and had them transcribed by others. In this way, in the course of only a few years hundreds of piano pieces appeared, many of which Scelsi then collected into suites. He began his series of suites with the number 8, since the number 8 had for him a mystic significance. The “Suite No. 8” is subtitled “Bot-ba”, which means “Tibetan”. In fact, the suite has nothing to do with actual Tibetan ritual music, but is an expression of Scelsi’s deep affinity for Eastern philosophy. His final “Suite No. 11” is a special case and was put together quite late in Scelsi’s life, at least in its final version. The interpretation by internationally acclaimed pianist Sabine Liebner is therefore the first authentic recording of the work with its original sequence of movements. Liebner’s meticulously researched 2015 recordings of Scelsi’s Suite No. 9 and Suite No. 10 (WER 67942) have been celebrated by critics.

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September/October 2021

For anyone wishing to explore Scelsi’s music, this is a wonderful point of entry. As with her Cage, Stockhausen, Feldman, and a host of other composers, Liebner’s pianism brings a new level of poetry to each phrase.

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