Floraleda Sacchi – Minimal Harp (2008)
Classical | MP3 ABR 318 kbps | 149 MB
Time: 65:35 min | Label: DECCA
The Minimal Harp project developed together with my (artistic and personal) investigation of essential ways of communication. The transmission of concepts and feelings in a clear, concise way seemed to me a privileged path towards understanding of the universe and the exploration of truth. What has guided me in this project, therefore, is not only (or necessarily) music defined as minimalist. The limination of all that is unnecessary is a predisposition of mind, a legacy of Zen, a necessary requirement in the study of an effective instrumental technique.
They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders, wept with love on seeing Ithaca, humble and green. Art is that Ithaca, a green eternity, not wonders. (Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Poetry, in Personal Anthology) When wonders are eliminated and we approach essence, we realize that it contains the intensity and depth of the long path that has led to that result, and at the same time we find that in itself essence has a simpler, broader, more universal expressive value. In this connection, one of Robert Morris s adages is enlightening: Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience. I have selected the pieces included in Minimal Harp by reviewing the paths of musicians with different backgrounds of experiences, studies and culture who have sought to realize that essentiality and totality in their music. The result is a collection of compact, polished pieces, slightly serial in nature, which constantly combine Western, Eastern and African musical traditions. All these pieces seek to explore various fundamental modes and themes of humanity: the beginning of everything (Cowell, Ligeti, Nyman), metamorphosis (Glass, Machajdik), time (Harrison, Campogrande), the intrinsic vibration of things (Cage, Pдrt). For the listener, however, the conceptual and cerebral aspect inherent in the themes selected or the compositional modalities is transformed into simple, linear pieces with an atmosphere that seems constantly to recall and lead back to the natural harmony between humanity and the whole. Floraleda Sacchi.
Tracklist:
1. Lou Harrison – Jahla
2. Lou Harrison – Avalokiteshvara
3. John Cage – A room
4. John Cage – In a landscape
5. Henry Cowell – The tides of Manaunaun
6. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 1
7. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 2
8. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 3
9. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 4
10. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 5
11. Nicola Campogrande – Tilidadodin
12. Arvo Pдrt – Pari intervallo
13. Gyцrgy Ligeti – Musica ricercata 1
14. Gyцrgy Ligeti – Musica ricercata 2
15. Gyцrgy Ligeti – Musica ricercata 4
16. Peter Machajdik – Nell’autunno del suo abbraccio insonne
17. Michael Nyman – The morrow
18. Michael Nyman – Jack
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