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Scelsi - Suites 8 & 11 for Piano | Wergo WER73282

Scelsi - Suites 8 & 11 for Piano

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Label: Wergo

Cat No: WER73282

Barcode: 4010228732825

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 30th October 2020

Contents

Artists

Sabine Liebner (piano)

Works

Scelsi, Giacinto

Suite no.8 'Bot-Ba'
Suite no.11

Artists

Sabine Liebner (piano)

About

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 (WER67942) have been celebrated by critics.

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