Description
ECM New Series: Giya Kancheli — Lament (Gidon Kremer) (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: ECM New Series
- Composer: Giya Kancheli
- Title: Lament
- Soloists: Gidon Kremer (violin), Maacha Deubner (soprano)
- Orchestra: Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Jansug Kakhidze
- Release Year: 1999
- UPC: 028946513828
- Catalog Number: ECM 1656 / 465 138-2
- Genre: Classical, Contemporary
- Condition: New / Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Total runtime: 42:00
- Scoring: for violin, soprano and orchestra
- Producer: Manfred Eicher
- Printed in Germany
- Language: Instrumental / vocal
Overview
Lament is one of Giya Kancheli's most affecting orchestral works — a single, slow-moving "music of mourning" written in memory of the composer Luigi Nono and scored for violin, soprano and orchestra. On ECM's New Series, it gets the spacious, hushed treatment the label is known for.
Kancheli's music lives in extremes of quiet and sudden intensity. Long stretches of near-silence are broken by surges of orchestral weight, then settle again. Gidon Kremer's violin moves through it like a single human voice, answered by soprano Maacha Deubner and the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra under Jansug Kakhidze.
The Georgian composer wrote much of his most personal music in this register — spare, spiritual, and unafraid of stillness. Lament sits alongside Mourned by the Wind and Abii ne viderem as a key statement of his late style.
Produced by Manfred Eicher, the recording has the depth and clarity that make ECM's New Series essential for lovers of contemporary classical music. For admirers of Pärt, Górecki and Silvestrov, this is unmissable.
Interesting Facts
- Giya Kancheli (1935–2019) was a Georgian composer whose film and concert music made him one of the most distinctive voices of the late Soviet and post-Soviet era.
- Lament is dedicated to the memory of Italian avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, who died in 1990.
- Gidon Kremer, the soloist here, was among Kancheli's most committed champions and recorded several of his works for ECM.
- Conductor Jansug Kakhidze was a close collaborator of Kancheli's and a central figure in Georgian musical life.
- ECM's New Series, launched in 1984, brought composers like Arvo Pärt to wide Western audiences and became a defining home for spare, contemplative new music.
- The album was produced by ECM founder Manfred Eicher, whose production aesthetic shaped the sound of the entire label.
Track Listing
Lament — music of mourning, for violin, soprano and orchestra (single continuous work, total 42:00).
Publishers
Released 1999 by ECM Records GmbH, Munich, on the ECM New Series (ECM 1656 / 465 138-2). Produced by Manfred Eicher. Printed in Germany.
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