Intervalli [LP]

Giuseppe Chiari - Intervalli [LP]

Alga Marghen presents the historical Intervalli by Giuseppe Chiari, a world premiere of the compete cycle of 12 Intervalli. Elegantly performed and recorded by Reinier Van Houdt, this timeless composition from 1950-56 anticipates Minimalist by a decade as well as Concetual and Sytems-Based-Composition while intersecting the perspectives that would soon be developed by Fluxus, the group Chiari would join in 1962. Giuseppe Chiari's Intervalli for piano still retain the charm of a discovery, even when considered in the context of their historical perspective. Composed within a time frame that extends throughout the entire first half of the 1950s, they are striking for the precocity of their compositional conception based on a radical reduction of musical parameters on mathematical and rational grounds. One might also be surprised to discover that Chiari's early compositions follow such a rigorous logical approach in the organization of musical material, particularly in light of the subsequent direction his work took, which established him, within the Neo-Avant-Garde, as the most resolute and determined exponent of gestural music -- a genre thus free from any dogma or structural constraints. In Intervalli Chiari focuses on the idea of a rational "arrangement" of the sequence of sound(more...)

A1. No. 1 (18:58)
A2. No. 2 (6:35)
B1. No. 3 (2:29)
B2. No. 4 (1:58)
B3. No. 5 (11:04)
B4. No. 6 (2:24)
B5. No. 7 (0:55)
B6. No. 8 (1:12)
B7. No. 9 (1:02)
B8. No. 10 (1:39)
B9. No. 11 (2:14)
B10. No. 12 (1:00)