Kancheli Bright Sorrow; Mourned by the Wind
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Composer or Director: Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli
Label: Melodiya
Magazine Review Date: 6/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 74
Mastering:
DDD
ADD
Catalogue Number: 74321 49958-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Bright Sorrow |
Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer
Dzansug Kakhidze, Conductor Georgia State Symphony Orchestra Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer Konstantin Savochkin, Treble/boy soprano Moscow Choir School Boys' Choir Valentin Konstandi, Treble/boy soprano |
Mourned by the Wind |
Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer
Dzansug Kakhidze, Conductor Georgia State Symphony Orchestra Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer Yuri Bashmet, Viola |
Author:
I won’t repeat what I wrote about these two works last October, except to say that they are every bit as haunting in the newly reissued Russian performances as in the Flemish ones on Telarc. That’s not surprising when you have Bashmet as soloist in a piece written for and dedicated to him: his soaring, plangent tone seems to be made for Kancheli’s music and vice versa. More surprising, perhaps, is that France Springuel, playing the cello version, is hardly less breathtaking (and the Telarc recording allows more subtlety of perspective than the 1991 Melodiya). There’s also little to choose between the performances of Bright Sorrow. Kancheli’s cantata in memory of child victims of war is a risky concept, consciously echoing Britten’s War Requiem, but there’s never a hint of sentimentality in its deeply felt memorializing. Dzansug Kakhidze is the conductor most closely associated with Kancheli over the years, but Rudolf Werthen has a wonderful instinct for the music too. Melodiya’s recording, 1987 vintage, is fine, Telarc’s even finer.
Both issues have excellent booklet-essays; Melodiya give the more correct translation of Bright (rather than Light) Sorrow. Much inspiration to be had then, whichever issue you plump for.'
Both issues have excellent booklet-essays; Melodiya give the more correct translation of Bright (rather than Light) Sorrow. Much inspiration to be had then, whichever issue you plump for.'
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