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For this album the pianist George Vatchnadze has gathered together 33 short pieces drawn from the huge oeuvre of film music composed by the greatest Georgian composer of our time, Giya Kancheli. Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) was a Georgian composer whose intensely personal style was closely related to Minimalism and Spiritualism. He possesses a unique vision of the universe. Despite the fact that many of his compositions reflect tragic events of the modern world, they somewhat suggest turning away from horrors of war and call for return to a true meaning of life – the all-embracing love. The roots of his music are closely related with Georgian folk melos despite the fact that there are no direct quotations. The 33 Miniatures are inspired by plays or films by authors ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Becket and other contemporaries. The music is haunting in its simplicity (it is called “simple music for piano”) and touches deep chords of human emotions in the heart.
In each piece he outlines the directorial view of a given play or a movie, and not always emphasising the condition of sorrow or nostalgia to which most of Kancheli’s music aspires. In these distillations of the written for Eldar Shelgelaya’s movies The Eccentrics, Extraordinary Exhibition and The Blue Mountains, there is a distinctive flavour of joy even in the presence of sorrow, in the mould of Georgian art by painters such as Pirosmani. Kancheli’s music for productions of Shakespeare such as King Lear and Romeo and Juliet is more lyrical, still inflected with Georgian character.
The miniatures are paired with a pair of works for cello and piano. The Five Pieces on Folk Themes are among the most popular works of the Georgian composer Sultan Tsintsadze, belonging to a tradition of such pieces written by composers as far afield as Schumann and De Falla. Receiving here its first internationally distributed recording is the Cello Sonata by Ruben Altunyan, born in 1939. In his three-movement Sonata he quotes the famous Georgian folk song Tsin Tskharo, thus unifying the album in a celebration of Georgia’s rich musical culture. © Piano Classics
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Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Giya Kancheli, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Ruben Altunyan, Composer
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher - Ruben Altunyan, Composer
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Composer - George Vatchnadze, Piano, MainArtist - Suren Bagratuni, Cello, MainArtist - Brilliant Classics, MusicPublisher
2019 Brilliant Classics 2019 Brilliant Classics
Album review
For this album the pianist George Vatchnadze has gathered together 33 short pieces drawn from the huge oeuvre of film music composed by the greatest Georgian composer of our time, Giya Kancheli. Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) was a Georgian composer whose intensely personal style was closely related to Minimalism and Spiritualism. He possesses a unique vision of the universe. Despite the fact that many of his compositions reflect tragic events of the modern world, they somewhat suggest turning away from horrors of war and call for return to a true meaning of life – the all-embracing love. The roots of his music are closely related with Georgian folk melos despite the fact that there are no direct quotations. The 33 Miniatures are inspired by plays or films by authors ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Becket and other contemporaries. The music is haunting in its simplicity (it is called “simple music for piano”) and touches deep chords of human emotions in the heart.
In each piece he outlines the directorial view of a given play or a movie, and not always emphasising the condition of sorrow or nostalgia to which most of Kancheli’s music aspires. In these distillations of the written for Eldar Shelgelaya’s movies The Eccentrics, Extraordinary Exhibition and The Blue Mountains, there is a distinctive flavour of joy even in the presence of sorrow, in the mould of Georgian art by painters such as Pirosmani. Kancheli’s music for productions of Shakespeare such as King Lear and Romeo and Juliet is more lyrical, still inflected with Georgian character.
The miniatures are paired with a pair of works for cello and piano. The Five Pieces on Folk Themes are among the most popular works of the Georgian composer Sultan Tsintsadze, belonging to a tradition of such pieces written by composers as far afield as Schumann and De Falla. Receiving here its first internationally distributed recording is the Cello Sonata by Ruben Altunyan, born in 1939. In his three-movement Sonata he quotes the famous Georgian folk song Tsin Tskharo, thus unifying the album in a celebration of Georgia’s rich musical culture. © Piano Classics
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 40 track(s)
- Total length: 01:24:54
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: George Vatchnadze Suren Bagratuni
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Piano Classics
- Genre: Classical
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