Kancheli - Symphonies 1 & 2
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Label: CuGate Classics
Cat No: CGC046
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 12th February 2021
Contents
Artists
Tbilisi Symphony OrchestraConductor
Djansug KakhidzeWorks
Symphony no.1Symphony no.2 'Chants' (Songs)
Artists
Tbilisi Symphony OrchestraConductor
Djansug KakhidzeAbout
Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) was and still is the best-known Georgian composer, celebrated for his mastery of silence and his (deceptive) simplicity. Giya Kancheli’s career as classical composer started in the 1960s after first attempts with chansons and popular songs, his First Symphony was accomplished and premiered in 1967 in Tbilisi, conducted by Djansug Kakhidze. Actually, as Kancheli emphasized repeatedly, many of his works were composed assuming that his close and lifelong friend Kakhidze wouldconduct them.
In total, Kancheli composed seven symphonies, the opera Music for the Living, the liturgy Mourned by the Wind, Light Sorrow, music for films and theatre plays and a number of chamber works like In l’istesso tempo (1997) and Chiaroscuro (2010), released on ECM and interpreted by Gidon Kremer.
Kancheli’s compositional approach is deeply rooted in the music of his Georgian origin and blends modern elements with a beautiful but deceptive simplicity, a melancholic tone and a captivating silence – qualities he shares with the great Arvo Pärt. But Kancheli developed his own musical idiom, and his death on 2 October 2019 is a great loss for the world of classical music.
“... a great musician of the modern age ...” – Rodion Shchedrin
“... the biggest philosopher among today’s composers ...” – Volker Tarnow, Fono
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