Salvatore Sciarrino
Infinito Nero / Le Voci Sottovetro
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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 deceitful eyes) was originally based upon the colourful life of the composer Carlo Gesualdo, but when he discovered that Schnittke was also busy on an opera on the same subject, Sciarrino changed track and eliminated all references to the great madrigalist in his final score. Yet the fascination with Gesualdo’s music remained, and the spin-off was a series of instrumental transcriptions that he grouped together in 1998 as Le voci sottovetro (The voices behind the glass) – quicksilver miniatures full of unexpected instrumental colours and dizzying changes of perspective, which recall Peter Maxwell Davies’s Sixties’ reworkings of medieval and Renaissance sources more than anything else.
Release notes
"Le Voci Sottovetro" composed 1999, based on following original compositions: "Gagliarda" composed 1586, Tu M'Uccidi, Oh Crudele" composed 1611, "Canzon Francese" composed 1586, "Moro, Lasso, Al Mio Duolo" composed 1611. First performed 22nd June 1999 at IRCAM, Paris. Torquato Tasso's letters written 1583, 1585 and 1586. "Infinito Nero" composed 1997-98. First performed 25th April 1998 in Witten. Track 1 to 7 recorded February 1999 in Baden-Baden and June 1999 in Freiburg. Track 8…
| 1 | Le Voci Sottovetro: Gagliarda Del Principe Di Venosa | 1:41 | |
| 2 | Lettere Poetiche: A Girolamo Mercuriale, Padova | 3:50 | |
| 3 | Le Voci Sottovetro: Tu M'Uccidi, O Crudele | 3:27 | |
| 4 | Lettere Poetiche: A Maurizio Cataneo, Roma | 5:01 | |
| 5 | Le Voci Sottovetro: Canzon Francese Del Principe | 4:47 | |
| 6 | Lettere Poetiche: A Giovan Battista Cavallara | 2:28 | |
| 7 | Le Voci Sottovetro: Moro, Lasso | 4:41 | |
| 8 | Infinito Nero: Estasi Di Un Atto | 26:39 |
- Lucas Fels
- Cello
- Shizuyo Oka
- Clarinet
- KAIROS Production
- Co-producer [Production]
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR Köln
- Co-producer [Production]
- Carlo Gesualdo
- Composed By
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Composed By, Liner Notes, Lyrics By [Text] (8)
- Jakob Gasteiger
- Cover
- Bernd Hagen
- Engineer [Recording]
- Norbert Klövekorn
- Engineer [Recording]
- ensemble recherche
- Ensemble
- Martin Fahlenbock
- Flute
- dirty hand production
- Layout [Grafix]
- Carlo Sini
- Liner Notes, Voice [Reciter] (2, 4, 6)
- Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi
- Lyrics By [Text] (8)
- Torquato Tasso
- Lyrics By [Text] (2, 4, 6)
- Frauke Lukas
- Mastered By
- Walter Platte
- Mastered By
- Sonia Turchetta
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals (3, 7, 8)
- Jacqualine Burk
- Oboe
- Christian Dierstein
- Percussion
- Charlotte Oswald
- Photography By
- Klaus Steffes-Holländer
- Piano (8)
- Martin Klingler
- Piano (1, 3, 5, 7)
- Harry Vogt
- Producer
- Wolfgang Müller
- Recording Supervisor
- Barbara Maurer
- Viola
- Melise Mellinger
- Violin
