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Giya Kancheli: Lament [CD]

Gidon Kremer, ?????(????), Giya Kancheli | Format: Audio CD
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  • Performer: Gidon Kremer, Maacha Deubner
  • Orchestra: Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Jansug Kakhidze
  • Composer: Giya Kancheli
  • Audio CD (19 Dec 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Ecm New Series
  • ASIN: B000027DVF
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 110,839 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Breathtaking and emotionally-fraught violin by Gidon Kremer dominates one of Georgian composer Kancheli's most moving compositions, dedicated to fallen comrade Luigi Nono. Reviews of the work in performance have spoken of a vast, brooding, stillness, where patience is "rewarded by moments of great, piercing beauty."

Personnel: Gidon Kremer (violin), Maacha Deubner (soprano), Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, Jansug Kakhidze (conductor)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this one on a bit of a whim as I was flicking through the newly released ECM stuff way back at the end of '99. There's no better way to listen to new stuff than to pick albums/artists at random and you can be reasonably sure it's going to be interesting on this label, all that Northern European cool and everything.

The first time I really listened to this was on a noisy Routemaster London bus, so the quiet bits I really had to strain to listen to. here are a couple of occasions when the piece builds to the start of a cresendo and it just stops, left hanging to return to the slow gentle strings and soprano. At first this style was kind of annoying but about 24:00 minutes in, it starts to build again but this time it kept going and going, turning into some kind of folk inspired whirl only to tail off again to the gentle lament of the title.

I was hooked. I've listened to it so many times now I've realised that the slow gentle lamenting bits are utterly beautiful and a perfect counterpoint to the occasional bursts of full orchestra. I even got my ex's dad into this guy after playing him this album (and he's like, dead musical and stuff).

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
The greatest piece of music to be written this decade 17 Dec 2000
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I bought this CD almost at random; I had read a review of it that praised the work and I found the cover striking. I never expected it to be the greatest CD I would buy this year. Like other reviewers I find the work beautifully haunting and gorgeous even at those moments when the orchestra seems to be asked to play as loudly as they can. And the singing is breathtaking: as powerful as any of the song you hear in the works of Mahler. I cannot recommend this recording enough. Do not be scared off by the unfamiliarity of the composer. This is music that is beautiful and completely accessible to all.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Kancheli: Weeping Prophet of Modernity 30 Dec 1999
By Jerry Myeh - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I am listening to Kancheli's _Lament_ even as I write . . . Powerful, irresistible, almost brutal at times in the intensity of its grief . . . Runs the entire gamut of sorrow: Quiet weeping; inconsolable sobbing; madness and rage.

Like _Exil_ and _Abii Ne Viderem_, this is MUST listening. There is a depth here, an understanding that transcends a sizable portion of what passes for music today . . . A fitting requiem for Modernity, methinks.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Great Recording!!!! 29 Mar 2002
By "kenny375" - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
The two who criticized the composition to be distasteful because of the loud flourishes which occur in the music, are some of the most stupidest things I have ever heard. This piece is very deep and I would hold Kancheli to be one of the best composers EVER. I am reminded of Arvo Part and Sofia Gubaidalina, all create new sounds with orchestration and effects on instruments, yet retain a lot purity to the music as well. The music is very solemn and beautiful, and deftly executed by Kremer.
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