Giya Kancheli - Symphonies 1-7, Liturgy (Mourned by the Wind) & Light Sorrow - CuGate Classics: CGC050 - 5 CDs

Release Date: 12th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: CGC050
Label: CuGate Classics

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Kancheli: Symphony No. 1

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 2

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 3

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 4

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 5

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 6

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Symphony No. 7

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Mourned by the Wind

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

Kancheli: Light Sorrow

Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Djansug Kakhidze

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Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) was and still is the best-known Georgian composer, celebrated for his mastery of silence and his (deceptive) simplicity. 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 emphasised repeatedly, many of his works were composed assuming that his close and lifelong friend Kakhidze will conduct 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 L'Istesso Tempo (1997) and Chiaroscuro (2010), released on ECM and interpreted by Gidon Kremer. Kancheli's compositonal 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 October 2nd 2019 is a great loss for the world of classical music.

Giya Kancheli - Symphonies 1-7, Liturgy (Mourned by the Wind) & Light Sorrow

5 CDs

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