Giya Kancheli - Styx / Tavener - The Myrrh-Bearer | Onyx ONYX4023

Giya Kancheli - Styx / Tavener - The Myrrh-Bearer

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Label: Onyx

Cat No: ONYX4023

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th August 2007

Contents

Artists

Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Liepja Symphony Orchestra
Rihards Zalupe (percussion)
Chorus ‘Kamr...’
Men of the State Choir Latvija

Conductor

Mris Sirmais

Works

Kancheli, Giya

Styx (1999)

Tavener, John

The Myrrh- Bearer (1993)

Artists

Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Liepja Symphony Orchestra
Rihards Zalupe (percussion)
Chorus ‘Kamr...’
Men of the State Choir Latvija

Conductor

Mris Sirmais

About

"My rival has arrived!" Yuri Bashmet purportedly exclaimed, when asked about Maxim Rysanov. 28 year-old Maxim, like Bashmet is from the Ukraine. In 2007 his Avie recital disc was named Editors ‘Choice in Gramophone and was raved about in Fanfare and named as a BBC Young Generation Artist 2007-8.
Rysanov’s Onyx debut is of two extraordinarily beautiful and haunting works for viola and chorus/orchestra: both written for Bashmet, and the Tavener is a world-premičre recording.
Giya Kancheli’s Styx is already renowned as a choral masterpiece for the 21st century, The River Styx in Greek mythology separates the living from the dead and the solo viola mediates between the two.
John Tavener’s The Myrrh-Bearer is another epic, this time based on the Troparion of Cassiane, a Byzantine poet and composer. Here the viola represents the sin of Mary Magdalen. Both works were recorded in the amazing Dome Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, the largest medieval church in the Baltics, has just the right expansive acoustic to make this music work.
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