Iannis Xenakis - Palimpsest - Epei - Dikhthas - Akanthos

Over thirty years after the scandal created by the première of his first orchestral work, Metastaseis, at Donaueschingen in 1955, Xenakis's music still poses to the listener a disconcerting dichotomy: the ingredients of the music appear to consist of a plethora of scientific and higher mathematical expressions, a web of calculations and diagrams, and yet the sonic result is raw and dramatic, intensely passionate and subjective.

Iannis XENAKIS (b. 1922)

1. Palimpsest pour ensemble
2. Épéi pour ensemble
3. Dikhthas pour violon et piano
4. Akanthos pour voix et ensemble

Penelope Walmsley-Clark, soprano
Irvine Arditti, violon
Claude Helffer, piano
Spectrum
Guy Protheroe, direction

Wergo 6178-2
Released 1990


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