Giacinto Scelsi / Edgard Varèse / Hanspeter Kyburz

Giacinto Scelsi / Edgar Varèse /Hanspeter Kyburz

Archive 2005

Music

Opéra Bastille
novembernov 21

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Giacinto Scelsi
Hymnos for organ and orchestra (1963)
Yliam for all-female chorus(1964)
Uaxuctum for seven percussionists, timpanists, chorus and orchestra,(1966)
Edgar Varèse
Ecuatorial for bass chorus and orchestra, (1934)
Hanspeter Kyburz
A travers for bass chorus and orchestra, (1999)
Noesis for orchestra (2001-2003)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Marcus Creed, chorus conductor
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden – Freiburg
Ernesto Molinari, clarinet
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor
Presentation in Paris : Co-presented by Opéra national de Paris,
Festival d’Automne à Paris, in collaboration with Südwestrundfunk
With the support of Fondation de France, Sacem and Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture

The compositions offered here span seven decades and three generations. But they all strive to get to the heart of the matter – the sound. Scelsi’s compositions probe the “sphericity” of sound, or lead back to the incantations of theTibetan llamas and Vedic tradition. Varese digs for inspiration for Ecuatorial in a prayer borrowed from the Quiche Mayas’ Popol Vuh, while Kyburz’s Noesis is a return to pure sources: life’s pulsating rhythm.