Scelsi : Intégrale des quatuors à cordes et Trio à cordes Quatuor Molinari

• Giacinto Scelsi )1905 - 1988): String Quartet No. 1:
• 1 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 1: I. Quasi Lento – Agitato – Molto sostenuto ed intenso – Con esaltazione esasperata 09:40
• 2 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 1: II. Molto lento, quasi funebre – Pesante 11:08
• 3 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 1: III. Scherzo 02:59
• 4 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 1: IV. Moderato – Deciso – Dolcissimo 09:55
• String Trio:
• 5 Scelsi: String Trio: I. 04:12
• 6 Scelsi: String Trio: II. 02:56
• 7 Scelsi: String Trio: III. 02:42
• 8 Scelsi: String Trio: IV. 04:05
• String Quartet No. 2:
• 9 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 2: I. 03:33
• 10 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 2: II. 04:16
• 11 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 2: III. 03:08
• 12 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 2: IV. 03:32
• 13 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 2: V. 04:35
• String Quartet No. 3:
• 14 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3: I. Avec une grande tendresse (dolcissimo) 04:00
• 15 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3: II. L'appel de l'esprit, dualisme, ambivalence, conflit (drammatico) 03:29
• 16 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3: III. L'âme se réveille (con transparenza) 03:40
• 17 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3: IV. ... et tombe de nouveau dans le pathos, mais maintenant avec un pressentiment de la libération (con tristezza) 03:47
• 18 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3: V. Libération, catharsis 03:01
• String Quartet No. 4:
• 19 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 4 10:17
• String Quartet No. 5:
• 20 Scelsi: String Quartet No. 5 06:54
• Total Runtime 01:41:49

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Auf seiner jüngsten Einspielung widmet sich das Molinari Quartett dem gesamten Streichquartett-Zyklus des italienischen Komponisten Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), der als Ikonoklast gilt.

Der ungewöhnliche, für seine experimentelle Herangehensweise bekannte Komponist hatte zwei große Schaffensperioden: die erste von 1929 bis Mitte der 1950er Jahre, in der er sich auch in der Schweiz aufhielt, und die zweite bis zu seinem Tod 1988.

Während der ersten Periode wurde Scelsis Schaffen von den Komponisten der Zweiten Wiener Schule inspiriert, insbesondere von Schönberg, bei dem er in Wien studierte. Seine Werke aus dieser Zeit sind dodekaphon, atonal oder seriell. Während der zweiten Periode erlitt er eine schwere psychische Krise und stellte das Komponieren für mehrere Jahre ein. Als Scelsi schließlich wieder anfing zu schreiben, konzentrierte er sich auf die Monodie. Die Melodie weicht dem klanglichen Zusammenspiel, das in den Mittelpunkt von Scelsis musikalischem Schaffen rückt.

Das Album enthält Scelsis berühmtestes und umstrittenstes Werk, sein Streichtrio aus dem Jahr 1958 in vier Sätzen, von denen sich jeder um eine einzige Note dreht. Die rhythmische Einfachheit dieses Werks verlagert den Schwerpunkt auf musikalische Farben und Texturen.

Quatuor Molinari

Molinari Quartet
Internationally acclaimed by the public and the critics since its foundation in 1997, the Molinari Quartet has given itself the mandate to perform works from the 20th and 21st centuries repertoire for string quartet, to commission new works and to initiate discussions between musicians, artists and the public.

Recipient of nineteen Opus Prizes awarded by the Quebec Music Council to underline musical excellence on the Quebec concert stage, the Molinari Quartet as been described by the critics as an “essential” and “prodigious” ensemble, even “Canada’s answer to the Kronos or Arditti Quartet”. The Molinari Quartet has established itself as one of Canada’s leading string quartets.

In addition to many Canadian works, including the 13 quartets by R. Murray Schafer, the Molinari Quartet’s repertoire includes among others, quartets by Bartók, Berg, Britten, Corigliano, Debussy, Dutilleux, Dun, Glass, Gubaidulina, Kancheli, Kurtág, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Martinu, Penderecki, Prokofiev, Ravel, Rihm, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and Webern.

The Molinari Quartet was heard twice as soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and in April 2018 premiered the Concerto for string quartet and orchestra by Samy Moussa with the Orchestre Métropolitain of Montréal under the direction of Nicholas Carter. The Quartet has been invited to perform in numerous concert series and festivals including IJsbreker (Amsterdam), Présences (Radio-France, Paris), Festival Octobre en Normandie (France), Les détours de Babel festival (Grenoble, France), IXth International Festival of contemporary music Musica Nueva (Mexico), Brand-New Music in Katowice (Poland), Akademia Muzyczna Karola Szymanowsky (Poland), Musiques au présent (Québec), Festival Vancouver, Vancouver New Music, Banff Centre, Music Toronto, New Music Concerts (Toronto), Toronto Summer Music Festival and Academy, Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, National Arts centre of Ottawa, New Music Edmonton, Tonus Vivus (Edmonton), Neworks Calgary, Orford Festival, Montréal / Nouvelles Musiques, Musimars (Montréal), Festival Domaine Forget, Festival international de Lanaudière, GroundSwell (Winnipeg), Arte Musica series (Montréal), Five-Penny concert series (Sudbury), Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, etc. In November 2013, the Molinari Quartet performed a 7 concert tour in China including concerts in Shanghai and Beijing and in November 2016, it toured Poland and Armenia.

The Molinari Quartet has commissioned Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer’s 7th and 12th quartets and has also premiered his 8th, 10th and 13th Quartets, written also for the Molinari. The Quartet has commissioned and premiered several works from Canadian composers such as Otto Joachim, Nicolas Gilbert, Michel Gonneville, Marc Hyland, Éric Champagne, Michael Matthews, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Pat Carrabre, John Rea, Denis Gougeon, Laurie Radford and Ana Sokolovic as well as giving North-American premieres of many works.

The Molinari Quartet is the only quartet to have all of R. Murray Schafer’s thirteen string quartets in its repertoire. Its recordings on the ATMA Classique label (complete quartets by Schafer, Schnittke, Kurtág, Gubaidulina) have received international critical acclaim including two Editors’ Choices by Gramophone magazine and rave revues from, among others, The Strad, Fanfare, Diapason, etc. Its recording of the complete Kurtág quartets has received a Diapason d’Or in December 2016 and the Echo Klassik award for 20th and 21st century chamber music in July 2017.

Launched in October 2001, the Molinari Quartet International Competition for Composition has had an enormous success. Over its six editions it has received over 850 new quartet scores from 69 countries.

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