Kancheli - 33 Miniatures: Simple Music for Piano & Works by Altunyan and Tsintsadze
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10198
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 13th December 2019
Contents
Works
Cello SonataAs you like it
Bear's Kiss
Cinema
Don't Grieve
Don Quixote
Earth, This is your Son
Extraordinary Exhibition
Hamlet
Khanuma
Kin-Dza-Dza
King Lear
Minimo
Mother Courage and her Children
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Sunny Night
Tears were falling
The Blue Mountains
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Eccentrics
The Role for a Beginner
Twelfth Night
Waiting for Godot
When Almonds Blossomed
Pieces (5) on Folk Themes for cello and piano
Artists
George Vatchnadze (piano)Suren Bagratuni (cello)
Works
Cello SonataAs you like it
Bear's Kiss
Cinema
Don't Grieve
Don Quixote
Earth, This is your Son
Extraordinary Exhibition
Hamlet
Khanuma
Kin-Dza-Dza
King Lear
Minimo
Mother Courage and her Children
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Sunny Night
Tears were falling
The Blue Mountains
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Eccentrics
The Role for a Beginner
Twelfth Night
Waiting for Godot
When Almonds Blossomed
Pieces (5) on Folk Themes for cello and piano
Artists
George Vatchnadze (piano)Suren Bagratuni (cello)
About
The pianist George Vatchnadze was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi but now lives and works in Chicago as Professor of Piano at DePaul University School of Music, having studied with several renowned artists from his homeland such as Alexander Toradze. As winner of prestigious competitions including the Gina Bachauer Competition in 1994, he has given concerts across Europe and the US with the likes of Valery Gergiev and Gianandrea Noseda.
For this album he 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. 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 music 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.
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