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Scelsi - Piano Sonata No. 3 : III
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1939) Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an extraordinary Italian composer whose important place in music history is not yet widely acknowledged. In his youth, he was one of the few Italian disciples of Schoenberg and an enthusiast of contemporary music. His early works from the 1930s/40s reveal a plethora of 20th-century aesthetics from dodecaphony, futurism, neo-classicism, to a kind of mysticism comparable to late-period Scriabin. From 1950 on, Scelsi explored Eastern ...
Scelsi - Piano Sonata No. 3 : II Con dolcezza
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1939) Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an extraordinary Italian composer whose important place in music history is not yet widely acknowledged. In his youth, he was one of the few Italian disciples of Schoenberg and an enthusiast of contemporary music. His early works from the 1930s/40s reveal a plethora of 20th-century aesthetics from dodecaphony, futurism, neo-classicism, to a kind of mysticism comparable to late-period Scriabin. From 1950 on, Scelsi explored Eastern ...
Scelsi - Piano Sonata No. 3 : I Lento, rubato
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1939) Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an extraordinary Italian composer whose important place in music history is not yet widely acknowledged. In his youth, he was one of the few Italian disciples of Schoenberg and an enthusiast of contemporary music. His early works from the 1930s/40s reveal a plethora of 20th-century aesthetics from dodecaphony, futurism, neo-classicism, to a kind of mysticism comparable to late-period Scriabin. From 1950 on, Scelsi explored Eastern ...
Skalkottas - Catastrophe in the Jungle
"Catastrophe in the Jungle" from 32 Piano Pieces (1940) Nikolaos Skalkottas (1904-1949) was a significant Greek composer who wrote dodecaphonic and atonal music mostly influenced by the Second Viennese School. Skalkottas began violin lessons as early as five years old, but later abandoned performance in favor of composition. He studied with Kurt Weill and Philipp Jarnach (a pupil of Busoni), and also attended the masterclasses of Schoenberg, who described Skalkottas as one of his most ...
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