Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer, born in Palermo in 1947. He came to music after studying the visual arts and was largely self-taught, with early guidance from Turi Belfiore. His music works close to silence, built on small shifts of timbre, breath-like sounds and barely audible noises. Sciarrino moved to Rome in 1969 and studied electronic music with Franco Evangelisti. He was artistic director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna from 1978 to 1980 and taught at the Milan Conservatory before settling in Città di Castello in Umbria.
Infinito Nero / Le Voci Sottovetro
1999 release ** Both peculiar archaism and highest sensitivity characterize this quiet, while extremely tense sound landscapes of the Sicilian composer Salvatore Sciarrino.
Salvatore Sciarrino’s music-theatre piece Luci mie traditrici (Oh my deceitfu…
La Viola Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Do…
Musica nuova a Siena (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX - this album captures world premieres and rare works performed by Gruppo Octandre under Alain Meunier and other distinguished ensembles. The program features Salvatore Sciarrino's Due Nuove Melodie, Andrea Mannucci's A…
Piano XX Vol. 3
1989 release ** 20th Century piano music by Nikolai Roslavetz, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Brian Ferneyhough, Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino.
Luciano Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino, Luca Francesconi, Ludovico Einaudi, Armando Gentilucci, Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Ricorrenze1990 release ** Luciano Berio: Ricorrenze Salvatore Sciarrino: Quintettino #2 Luca Francesconi: Attesa Ludovico Einaudi: Ai margini dell' aria Armando Gentilucci: Cile 1973 Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Quintetto #1 "The collection here draws together pi…
Paesaggi con macerie
“Not all artists manifest social and political ideals. This is a contradictory fact in itself, since they are committed to improving society,” says Salvatore Sciarrino in his album Paesaggi con macerie, which presents four remarkable recordings for e…
Quaderno Di Strada
"Sciarrino is an important, and distinctive, figure in the Italian avant-garde. The present work is a setting of thirteen brief texts (its subtitle is ’12 canti e un proverbio’, twelve songs and a proverb) for baritone and 14 instrumentalists – the b…
Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante
"Salvatore Sciarrino's Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante is divided in three movements:
Alfabeto OscuroThe alphabet mentioned in the title (as if speaking, it’s written at the top of the score) refers to the language of sounds that desperately tries…
Works for Flute
** In process of stocking ** Salvatore Sciarrino, speaking of his own art, refers to fascinating encounters and movements in Sicilian civilisation, recollections of cultures, layered one upon the other over the centuries in the land of Empedocles. Hi…
Luci mie traditrici
A voice behind the curtain. Antique beauty disappears: It will always return, the same music, and each time it will be marked by the wounds of time. And throughout the entire work it accompanies the events that are not told. Little happens, almost no…
Quartetto N.7 - Quartetto N.8 - Sei Quartetti Brevi
Kairos is proud to announce the release of three string quartets by renowned Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, recorded by the brilliant Quartetto Prometeo. The group has worked closely with the composer for years, leading him to dedicate two pie…
Macbeth
The unspeakable evil in three nameless acts: We proudly present Salvatore Sciarrino’s Macbeth, recorded at the 2011 Salzburg Festival, released for the first time as an audio document!The infiltration of microorganisms of sound, restless reticence, e…
Imagination at play. Prix Italia and Radiophonic Experimentation
Finally restocked! After five years of intense, passionate and sometimes painful work Die Schachtel (in collaboration with RAI) is proud to announce the release of the long-awaited massive Book (Edited by Angela Ida de Benedictis and Maddalena Novati…
Orchestral Works
“Orchestral Works” collects the best of the production of this Sicilian composer with eight pieces on 3 CDs: the box - entirely dedicated to Sciarrino - is the result of the collaboration between this musician and Rai Trade. "He searches for exeptio…
12 Madrigali
Salvatore Sciarrino, in league with the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, embarks on the investigation of a new ecology of sound, through a form of polyphony reduced to chamber-music scale. The lyrics selected by the Italian composer are based on six hai…
Sui poemi concentrici
Deluxe triple cd boxet "to write music for Dante’s entire Commedia... It was not without trepidation that I accepted the proposal for a television production. Especially to accompany a reading of the text, meaning to follow it step by step, but also …
La Bocca, I Piedi, Il Suono
Col legno and Sciarrino have gone all out for this “world premiere recording.” The four soloists have been expertly mixed with other promenading saxophonists recorded on separate occasions, but most importantly, the package includes standard CD audio…
Aspern Suite
The ARTS series which joins contemporary music and art offers a new outstanding achievement with the recording of Salvatore Sciarrino's Aspern Suite for soprano and instrumental ensemble illustrated by the front cover of the French painter Daniel Bur…
Nocturnes
Arguably Italy's leading contemporary composer, Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947) is represented here by seven works for piano, all of which are performed by Nicolas Hodges. The title of the disc – Nocturnes: Complete Piano Works, 1994-2001 – is perhaps …
Lohengrin
2008 release ** Lohengrin, Salvatore Sciarrino's "azione invisibile", is both a gloss on Wagner's opera and a sly debunking of it. It was conceived by its composer as an opera with action invisible, for one singer/actress who assumes all the characte…
Esplorazione del Bianco
Sciarrino's work is avant-garde, and he is known for his use of isolated sonorities, extended playing techniques, frequent silences, and ironic or confrontational quotation of previous music (for instance, American pop music) or stories (such as in L…
Quasi morendo - Johannes Brahms, Gérard Pesson, Salvatore Sciarrino
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 framed by Sciarrino's solo Let Me Die Before I Wake and Pesson's Nebenstück, played by clarinettist Reto Bieri and the Finnish quartet Meta4; recorded at RSI Studio Zürich, produced by Manfred Eicher.