SYLVIO GUALDA PERCUSSION VOL.2 LP XENAKIS+ELLIOTT CARTER+NGUYEN THIEN DAO-AVANT
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SYLVIO GUALDA / IANNIS XENAKIS / ELLIOTT CARTER / NGUYEN THIEN DAO
PERCUSSION VOL.2 LP
Erato
Rare french original with master percussionist Sylvio Gualda performing works of Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter and Nguyen Thien Dao. Highest recommendation!!
Some info on the release: Very rare original issue, released in France sometime in the late 70's on the Erato label (that released also Oskar Sala, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, Sylvano Bussotti, Ivo Malec, Francois-Bernard Mache, Elisabeth Chojnacka, etc). Documentation of the master perforamance of Sylvio Gualda on the works of Iannis Xenakis ("Psappha"), Elliott Carter ("Pieces pour timbales") and Nguyen Thien Dao ("May"). Gualda delivers a ritualistic performance, highly abstract and very far from any percussion record you've ever heard. More close to ritual initiative music - zen meditation - or maybe even Lasry-Baschet sound with normal percussion instruments, should be listened with headphones in absolute darkness.
Sylvio Gualda has been very active in the field of musical creation since the 1960s. He has worked to broaden the possibilities of percussion instruments and has trained many young professionals. In 1968 he became the tympani soloist of the Paris Opera Orchestra and gave the first performance on stage of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ballet, Zyklus. He also promoted new works, for instance by Marius Constant, André Jolivet, Nguyen Thien Dao, François-Bernard Mâche. He worked for a long time with Iannis Xenakis ever since the first performance of Psappha in London, in 1976, which he played the next year in Paris at the Opéra Garnier. From 1973 on, Sylvio Gualda was the main organizer at the French Radio of the first percussion recital in the history of music. In 1970, he worked with Jean-Pierre Drouet, Katia and Marielle Labèque for premieres of pieces by Berio and Marius Constant and also for many performances of Bartok’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion. He also played with Elisabeth Chojnacka and they premiered Xenakis’ Komboï in 1981. Sylvio Gualda is also a conductor, and here again, he devotes most of his work to new music; he often collaborated with Rolf Liebermann and conducted the first performance of Nguyen Thien Dao’s oratorio Les Enfants d’Izieu with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the French Radio.
Condition: Vinyl lies in very good+ condition, has many light hairline marks on side A: and plays nicely with the lightest crackle, while cover lies in very good+ shape, with split on top and substantial age wear (see picture).
Tracklist
Side 1 (26:12) A1 Psappha (Percussion - Solo) Written-By – Iannis Xenakis 12:17 Pieces Pour Timbales A2.1 Recitative Written-By – Elliott Carter A2.2 Moto Perpetuo Written-By – Elliott Carter A2.3 Saeta Written-By – Elliott Carter A2.4 Improvisation Written-By – Elliott Carter B May (Percussion - Solo) Written-By – Nguyen Thiên Dao 26:14 Credits- Engineer – Pierre Lavoix
- Liner Notes – Gérard Mannoni
- Percussion – Sylvio Gualda
- Photography By – Colette Masson, Jacques Vatoux
- Producer – Pierre Lavoix
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