Kancheli Trauerfarbenes Land
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Composer or Director: Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: ECM New Series
Magazine Review Date: 1/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 457 850-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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... à la Duduki |
Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra |
Trauerfarbenes Land |
Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Composer Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra |
Author:
By my reckoning,
Trauerfarbenes Land (‘Country the Colour of Mourning’) employs a large orchestra and is different again (though both scores employ big drums to impressive effect), being nearly twice as long as
Writing of Trauerfarbenes Land, annotator Wolfgang Sandner alternates sections of musical analysis with selected extracts from Camus’s The Stranger. The concept is interesting, though I am not entirely sure whether it levels with Kancheli’s own ideas. More to the point, Dennis Russell Davies and producer Manfred Eicher conjure between them a precision-tooled sound picture where every grade of nuance is meticulously reported. Performance standards are unusually high throughout, so much so that I could not imagine either work being better played. An exceptional release, featuring some extraordinarily powerful music.'
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