Salvatore Sciarrino - Sei Capricci for solo violin (1975-76)

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947-)
Sei Capricci for solo violin (1975-76)

Georg Mönch, violin

I. Vivace (1:17)
II. Andante (5:27)
III. Assai agitato (2:00)
IV. Volubile (3:23)
V. Presto (2:43)
VI. Con brio (5:34)

Liner notes:
Begun in 1975 and published in 1976, the "Six Capriccios for violin" are one year's experience older than the "Three Brilliant Nocturnes for viola". Here too, the sonority has been thoroughly investigated with fanciful rigor (the contradiction is only apparent), leading to an extreme diminution of emission. But if Sciarrino's game of harmonics suspends the musical line from astral heights and seems to cling, in a sort of musical tight-rope act, to filigrees of an almost flirtatious lightness, then sudden changes of startling dynamic intensity, from "pp" to "ff" and vice versa, or the intrusion of new methods of sound production (dizzyingly rapid glissandos, "spazzolati" [brushed sounds]) widen the angle of perspective to eard of refractions. Heavenly lightness competes, voluptuously, with the earthy weight of metallic harshness and winks, diabolically, at the perfidiousness of the arabesque.
Virtuosity mocks itself. Paganini, more than a model, is used as the fossil from whom have descended unpredictable deviations. The obsession with which a technical figure is developed in each capriccio as the germinal cell for the entire piece is reminiscent of the structure of an étude. All this, however, including the taste for symmetries, is only alluded to between parentheses as the fossil of an historical memory. In fact, these Capriccios, more than on Baroque tangles or Romantic narcissism (Bach and Paganini), are based on the rationalistic lightness of twentieth-century irony, signifying, if nothing more, that this work is in any case hypothetical.

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Music

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• sciarrino
• capricci
• solo violin
• XX century classical
• avantgarde

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