Florian Hoelscher - Salvatore Sciarrino: Piano Works (2014)

Salvatore Sciarrino’s music hypnotises. Instead of resulting from laborious acts of composition, it often seems to have been captured in the here and now as an echo of hidden mystery plays. At other times one has the impression of witnessing volcanic experiments, with a threatening bubbling that recalls the sound of water and fire meeting, solid and ethereal elements mingling in telluric depths. Any performer seeking to do justice to such music must have some grasp of the magician’s art.