Kancheli - Symphonies 1 & 2 | CuGate Classics CGC046

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 Orchestra

Conductor

Djansug Kakhidze

Works

Kancheli, Giya

Symphony no.1
Symphony no.2 'Chants' (Songs)

Artists

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Djansug Kakhidze

About

Cugate Classics is pleased to release the complete symphonic works of the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli plus Light Sorrow and Mourned by the Wind, all in newly remastered versions. Djansug Kakhidze conducts the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra.

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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