p, acg, voc, 1905-1988 IT, La Spezia
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Conte Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi d’Ayala Valva
Born 8th January 1905 in La Spezia, died 9th August 1988 in Rome, Scelsi was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, but has gone through four different creative periods. His musical output remained largely undiscovered even within contemporary musical circles during most of his life, until a series of concerts in the mid to late 1980s finally premiered many of his pieces to great acclaim. He has then been noted as a visionary of many avantgarde ideas that only later became known through the works of other composers.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Opere Per Pianoforte | Giacinto Scelsi, Rossella Spinosa | 2017 | Album |
Collection Vol. 8 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2017 | Album |
Music For Cello Solo | Giacinto Scelsi - Marco Simonacci | 2017 | Album |
Collection Vol. 7 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2017 | Album |
Piano Works | Giacinto Scelsi, Biagio Putignano, Davide Anzaghi, Giusy Caruso | 2016 | Album |
Complete Flute Music | Giacinto Scelsi - Claudia Giottoli | 2016 | Album |
Suite 9 & 10 Per Pianoforte | Giacinto Scelsi - Sabine Liebner | 2015 | Album |
RITO | Giacinto Scelsi - Ensemble Phoenix Basel | 2014 | Album |
Collection Vol. 6 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2014 | Album |
Collection Vol. 5 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2013 | Album |
Chamber Music | Giacinto Scelsi - Ensemble Avantgarde | 2013 | Album |
The Violin Works | Giacinto Scelsi - Weiping Lin | 2013 | Album |
Da Lontano | John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen - Michael Svoboda | 2012 | Album |
Vita | Claudio Monteverdi, Giacinto Scelsi, Sonia Wieder-Atherton | 2011 | Album |
The Viola Works | Giacinto Scelsi - Vincent Royer, Séverine Ballon | 2011 | Album |
Music For Double Bass | Giacinto Scelsi, Isang Yun, Iannis Xenakis, Manfred Stahnke, Hans Werner Henze, Bent Lorentzen - Frank Reinecke | 2010 | Album |
Tre Canti Popolari + Due Componimenti Impetuosi | Giacinto Scelsi | 2010 | Compil. |
The Piano Works 4 | Giacinto Scelsi - Stephen Clarke | 2010 | Album |
Preludi, Serie I - IV | Giacinto Scelsi - Alessandra Ammara | 2009 | Album |
Collection Vol. 3 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2009 | Album |
Collection Vol. 4 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2008 | Album |
Abbastanza Basso | Uli Fussenegger - Bernhard Lang, Beat Furrer, Kiawasch Sahebnassagh, Giacinto Scelsi | 2008 | Album |
Chukrum / Quattro Pezzi / Natura Renovatur / Hymnos | Giacinto Scelsi - Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks | 2008 | Album |
Collection Vol. 2 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2008 | Album |
Hommage A Scelsi | Giacinto Scelsi | 2008 | Album |
Die Orgelwerke | Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Bernhard Haas | 2008 | Album |
Trilogia, I Tre Stadi Dell’uomo | Giacinto Scelsi - Arne Deforce | 2007 | Album |
The Works For Double Bass | Giacinto Scelsi - Robert Black | 2007 | Album |
Canti Del Capricorno | Giacinto Scelsi - Michiko Hirayama | 2007 | Album |
Collection Vol. 1 | Giacinto Scelsi | 2007 | Album |
Nuove Forme Sonore | Giacinto Scelsi | 2006 | Album |
Les Anges Sont Ailleurs | Giacinto Scelsi | 2006 | Album |
The Orchestral Works 2: La Nascita Del Verbo, Quattro Pezzi (Su Una Nota Sola), Uaxuctum | Giacinto Scelsi - RSO Wien, Concentus Vocalis, Wiener Kammerchor, Peter Rundel, Johannes Kalitzke | 2006 | Album |
Natura Renovatur | Giacinto Scelsi - Frances-Marie Uitti, Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen | 2006 | Album |
The Piano Works 3 | Giacinto Scelsi - Aki Takahashi | 2006 | Album |
The Piano Works 2 | Giacinto Scelsi - Stephen Clarke | 2005 | Album |
Trilogia - Aşk Havası | Giacinto Scelsi - Jessica Kuhn - Franghiz Ali-Zadeh | 2005 | Album |
Suono Rotondo | Giacinto Scelsi - Michael Kiedaisch, Stefano Scodanibbio, Michael Svoboda | 2005 | Album |
Incantations - The Art Of Song Of Giacinto Scelsi | Giacinto Scelsi - Marianne Schuppe | 2005 | Album |
Solo Cello And... | Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Giacinto Scelsi, Peter Sculthorpe | 2004 | Album |
Quattro Illustrazioni / Suite No. 8 'Bot-Ba' / Cinque Incantesimi | Giacinto Scelsi - Markus Hinterhäuser | 2003 | Album |
Action Music N° 1 / Suite N° 8 | Giacinto Scelsi, Bernhard Wambach | 2003 | Album |
Giacinto Scelsi | Giacinto Scelsi | 2002 | Compil. |
HYXOS - works of Scelsi-Sani-Vaira-Sotelo- Lombardi-Cage-Donatoni | Giacinto Scelsi, Nicola Sani, Claudio Vaira, Mauricio Sotelo, Daniele Lombardi, John Cage, Franco Donatoni | 2001 | Album |
Nuits – Weiß Wie Lilien | Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Aisthesis, Walter Nußbaum - Giacinto Scelsi, Cornelius Schwehr, Anton Webern, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, René Leibowitz, Toshio Hosokawa, Arnold Schoenberg | 2001 | Album |
The Orchestral Works 1: Hymnos; Hurqualia; Konx-Om-Pax; Canti Del Capricorno | Giacinto Scelsi - The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic & Carnegie Mellon Concert Choir, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Pauline Vaillancourt, Douglas Ahlstedt | 2001 | Album |
Music For High Winds | Giacinto Scelsi - Carol Robinson, Clara Novakova, Catherine Milliken | 2001 | Album |
Streichquartett Nr. 4 / Elohim / Duo / Anagamin / Maknongan / Natura Renovatur | Giacinto Scelsi - Klangforum Wien, Hans Zender | 2001 | Album |
Intégrale De La Musique De Chambre Pour Orchestre Á Cordes | Giacinto Scelsi - Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Jean-Paul Dessy | 2000 | Album |
Sofferte Onde Serene | Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Giacinto Scelsi / Kenneth Karlsson | 2000 | Album |
The Piano Works 1 | Giacinto Scelsi - Louise Bessette | 2000 | Album |
Yamaon / Anahit / I Presagi / Tre Pezzi / Okanagon | Giacinto Scelsi - Klangforum Wien, Hans Zender | 1999 | Album |
Kya | Giacinto Scelsi - Marcus Weiss, Johannes Schmidt, Ensemble Contrechamps, Jürg Wyttenbach | 1999 | Album |
Complete Works For Flute And Clarinet | Giacinto Scelsi - Ebony-Duo | 1999 | Album |
Intégrale Des Œuvres Chorales | Giacinto Scelsi | 1999 | Album |
Chamber Works For Flute And Piano | Giacinto Scelsi - Carin Levine, Peter Veale, Kristi Becker, Edith Salmen-Weber | 1998 | Album |
Quattro Pezzi Per Orchestra / Pranam / 5 Haiku For Flute And Strings / Zeitströme / Kantate | Giacinto Scelsi, Hans Zender / Michiko Hirayama, Roswitha Staege, Hanna Aurbacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken | 1997 | Album |
Dal Niente | Helmut Lachenmann / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Igor Stravinsky / Pierre Boulez / Giacinto Scelsi / Isang Yun - Eduard Brunner | 1997 | Album |
The Complete Works For Clarinet | Giacinto Scelsi - David Smeyers, Susanne Mohr, Ensemble Avance, Zsolt Nagy | 1997 | Album |
Suite No. 10 "Ka" / Suite No. 9 "Ttai" | Giacinto Scelsi | 1996 | Album |
Gagok / Graffiti / November / Ko-Tha I / Schirin / Lamento Di Tristano / König Wiedehopf | Isang Yun / Detlev Glanert / Cord Meijering / Giacinto Scelsi / Gerhard Müller-Hornbach / Rolf Riehm / Klaus Hinrich Stahmer - Ensemble Nunc | 1995 | Album |
Due Componimenti Impetuosi | Giacinto Scelsi | 1995 | Album |
Visioni Del Novecento | Arnold Schoenberg / Olivier Messiaen / Paul Hindemith / Giacinto Scelsi - Livia Mazzanti | 1995 | Album |
Music For Wind Instruments And Percussion | Giacinto Scelsi | 1994 | Album |
Cantiones De Circulo Gyrante (Ein Requiem Von Und Für Heinrich Böll) / I Presagi | Klaus Huber / Giacinto Scelsi | 1994 | Album |
Okanagon | Giacinto Scelsi - Joëlle Léandre | 1993 | Album |
Giacinto Scelsi | Giacinto Scelsi | 1993 | Album |
Tre Canti Popolari | Giacinto Scelsi | 1992 | Album |
Bot-Ba | Giacinto Scelsi - Marianne Schroeder | 1992 | Album |
Mozart / Scelsi / Pärt / Bärtschi / Busoni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Giacinto Scelsi / Arvo Pärt / Werner Bärtschi / Ferruccio Busoni | 1992 | Album |
Suites 8 «Bot-Ba» (Tibet) Et 9 «Ttai» (Paix) | Giacinto Scelsi | 1991 | Album |
Musiques Trans Alpines Vol. 1 (Jeunes Compositeurs Ou Jeunes Interprètes Franco-Italiens De Musique Contemporaine) | Giacinto Scelsi, Alessandro Sbordoni, Griffith Rose, Robert Pascal, Alain Savouret - Ensemble Alternance, Luca Pfaff, Pascale Bonnier, Kyoko Okumura, Claire-Marie Mille, Marie-Hélène Huguel, Gérard Chouquer, Maria Licata | 1990 | Album |
Les Cinq Quatuors À Cordes / Trio À Cordes / Khoom | Giacinto Scelsi - Arditti Quartet, Michiko Hirayama, Maurizio Ben Omar, Frank Lloyd, Aldo Brizzi | 1990 | Album |
Hurqualia - Hymnos - Chukrum | Giacinto Scelsi | 1990 | Album |
Scelsi 1905-1988 | Giacinto Scelsi - Ensemble 2E2M, Paul Méfano | 1990 | Album |
Quattro Illustrazioni • Xnoybis • Cinque Incantesimi • Duo Pour Violon Et Violoncelle | Giacinto Scelsi | 1990 | Album |
Duo, Soli, Trio À Cordes | Giacinto Scelsi | 1989 | Album |
Giacinto Scelsi | Giacinto Scelsi | 1989 | Album |
Quattro Pezzi Per Orchestra - Anahit - Uaxuctum | Giacinto Scelsi | 1989 | Album |
Aion - Pfhat - Konx-Om-Pax | Giacinto Scelsi | 1988 | Album |
Suites Nr. 9 And Nr. 10 For Piano | Marianne Schroeder - Giacinto Scelsi | 1988 | Album |
Scelsi: Piano Music | Giacinto Scelsi | 1988 | Album |
Canti Del Capricorno | Giacinto Scelsi | 1987 | Album |
Rencontre & Création Musique Contemporaine | Giacinto Scelsi / Alessandro Sbordoni / Griffith Rose / Alain Savouret | 1986 | Compil. |
Musique Sacrée | Giacinto Scelsi | 1985 | Album |
Paralipomena 2 - Quartets And Duos | Giacinto Scelsi - Arditti Quartet | 1983 | Album |
Quattro Pezzi / Pranam II / Okanagon / Kya | Giacinto Scelsi | 1982 | Album |
Paralipomena 1 - Trilogia - Ko-Tha | Giacinto Scelsi | 1982 | Album |
Sauh / Taiagarú / Canti Del Capricorno | Giacinto Scelsi - Michiko Hirayama | 1980 | Album |
Hô / Khoom / Pranam | Giacinto Scelsi - Michiko Hirayama | 1978 | Album |
Anahit / Mikka / Strung Out | Giacinto Scelsi / Iannis Xenakis / Philip Glass - Paul Zukofsky | 1976 | Album |
Œuvre Intégrale Pour Chœur Et Orchestre Symphonique | Giacinto Scelsi, Jürg Wyttenbach, Polish Radio Orchestra Of Krakow, Chór Filharmonii Im. Karola Szymanowskiego W Krakowie | Compil. | |
Contemporary Piano Works | Silvia Belfiore - Aldo Brizzi · Nicola Cisternino · Ernst Helmuth Flammer · Horatiu Radulescu · Giacinto Scelsi | Album | |
The Secret Melody / Coelocanth / Din Cimpoiu / Epitome | Anette Slaatto | Album |