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Kancheli - Diplipito; Valse Boston

~ Giya Kancheli (Artist), Derek Lee Ragin (Artist), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra (Artist), Dennis Russell Davies (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (24 May 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: ECM New Series
  • ASIN: B00020HCLI
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1. Diplipito for violoncello, countertenor and Orchestra (1997)
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Album Description

Powerful, often explosive music from the Georgian master, breaking a four-year silence since his last ECM release, 'Magnum Ignotum'. These new recordings are quintessential Kancheli.

The new album features premiere recordings, made with the composer's participation, of two major works, Valse Boston (1996) & Diplipito (1997). Both give evidence of the ongoing trend by Kancheli to simplify the musical lang-uage, strip the works of any superfluity, and tighten the focus for maximum emotional impact.

Kancheli, a composer whose control of dynamics is second to none, is particularly well served by ECM's peerless production values. Here masterful orchestral writing is matched by masterful recording quality, every nuance meticulously registered.

"Don't let the innocuous title fool you: Giya Kancheli's Valse Boston is a powder keg of a piece" wrote the Chicago Tribune after a live performance. "It is a secular prayer veering between extremes of dynamics, tempo and mood."

Commissioned by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Valse Boston is dedicated to conductor Dennis Russell Davies who is also the piano soloist. Kancheli and the American conductor are old friends: Davies was one of the first westerners to recognise the potential of Kancheli's music.

Dennis Russell Davies has conducted four previous, much praised Kancheli recordings for ECM New Series: 'Trauerfarbenes Land', 'Caris Mere', 'Abii ne viderem' and 'Vom Winde beweint'.

Diplipito features exceptional playing from another of New Series' major artists, Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga, and outstanding singing from prize-winning American countertenor Derek Lee Ragin, making his ECM debut.

Recorded 2001

Personnel:
Thomas Demenga - (cello), Derek Lee Ragin - (countertenor), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful wordless prayer, 23 Aug 2004
'My work of silence, my mute creation...' is the phrase by poet Joseph Brodsky that accompanies the notes of Diplipito, the latest Kancheli ECM release. 'Meaningless words from a Georgian epic' is Diplipito named for a kind of Georgian drum and scored for cello, counter-tenor and orchestra.

For me, this piece is like a wordless prayer, where words are meaningless or just superfluous. Diplipito is the song of the Soul 'exhausted in prayer', stretching itself upwards, ever upwards, reaching for something, exhausting itself, never making it, falling and rising once again... in a kind of cyclic never-ending effort. Phrases and melodic themes are isolated and beautiful, their beauty highlighted by their context becoming all the more intense. Themes and phrases repeat themselves in the manner that the composer knows so well, always open though never exhausted and, ultimately satisfying in some kind of mysterious and perfectly balanced way.
Kancheli's usual abrupt and intense dynamic contrasts are present in this piece as well, but not to the extent that one finds in his previous recordings.

It's wonderdul to hear Derek Lee Ragin's angelic indeed voice in another Kancheli work (after the superb 'And Farewell goes out sighing...'), and even though to describe someone's voice as ' angelic' is usually a cliche, in this instance it is perfectly appropriate. Also wonderful to find Thomas Demenga with his cello as well as a rather unusual for a Kancheli score that includes percussion, piano and guitar in a most innovative and unexpected way. The result is perfect and always leaves me with a feeling of serenity, deep satisfaction and longing for more. Perhaps, it would be a little exaggerated to say that Diplito is a contact with the numinous, but that's exactly how it feels for me and I cannot stop listening to it.

The second piece on this CD is Boston Valse for piano and strings with Dennis Russell Davies on the piano and also conducting the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Marvellous.

Highly recommended.

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