Georges Gurdjieff

Recueil de notes se rapportant à diverses réunions tenues par Gurdjieff et reconstituées par ses élèves. Il témoigne de l'enseignement du maître spirituel. Il s'accompagne du témoignage d'un élève relatant sa rencontre avec ce dernier en 1915, peu avant la Révolution russe, de deux conférences et d'aphorismes. ..

Cet opus ouvre la troisième série des oeuvres de Gurdjieff, qui devait initialement comporter cinq volumes et demeure inachevée. ..

Fino al 1924, G.I. Gurdjieff aveva insegnato alla maniera orientale, comunicando le sue idee a un piccolo gruppo di allievi, sempre e solo in modo diretto sia nella teoria che nella pratica, senza mai permetter loro di trascrivere le indicazioni ricevute. …

Over a period of five years, Swiss directors Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer documented the activity of legendary producer Manfred Eicher, the founder and driving force behind ECM Records, whose advocacy of progressive jazz and of classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Meredith Monk, Valentin Silvestrov, and György Kurtág changed the landscape of contemporary music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The film Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher was released in 2009 and this 2011 soundtrack album is made up largely of tracks taken from previously released ECM albums that Eicher produced, some from as early as 1980. Most of the pieces are low-key and understated and feature chamber ensembles, although there are several piano tracks and several featuring orchestra or chorus. The album has a mix of selections from ECM's classical and jazz repertoire, and from the label's specialty, the many pieces that lie somewhere in between the two.