Giya Kancheli
Trauerfarbenes Land
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies conductor
...à la Duduki
Trauerfarbenes Land
Recorded March and August 1997
ECM New Series 1646
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Giya Kancheli's fifth album for ECM New Series is the first to be devoted exclusively to his
orchestral music and features two extended pieces of often volcanic power that bear out
the judgement of Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin: "Kancheli is an ascetic with the
temperament of a maximalist, a smouldering Vesuvius." Impassioned performances by the Vienna
Radio Symphony Orchestra under the dynamic direction of Dennis Russell Davies make
this another milestone in the career of a musician that Time magazine has said "may
well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri
Shostakovich."
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