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Franz Welser-Möst, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Kancheli: Symphony No. 3; Pärt: Symphony No. 3, Fratres (1996)

Franz Welser-Möst, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Kancheli: Symphony No. 3; Pärt: Symphony No. 3, Fratres (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 202 Mb | Total time: 55:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 55619 2 | Recorded: 1995

Here is a natural and effective coupling of spiritual-minimalist pieces from the Baltic and the Balkans; and how good it is to see this music at last on a major label with a top-flight international orchestra.
The benefits are clear in Kancheli’s Third Symphony, with its extreme contrasts of solo vocal keening and tutti Stravinskian outbursts. Here the spaciousness of EMI’s recording, made in Watford Town Hall, and the refinement of the LPO’s playing are clear gains over the rival Georgian performance (which comes with the added drawback of having been transferred a whole tone too high by the original Melodiya team). The mesmeric folk-derived lament which punctuates the structure was sung on the earlier recording by Rustavi choir-member Gamlet Gonashvili, for whose unearthly tenor Kancheli conceived it.
Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Kremerata Baltica, The Bridge Ensemble - Kancheli: In l'istesso tempo (2005)

Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Kremerata Baltica, The Bridge Ensemble - Kancheli: In l'istesso tempo (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 268 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 164 MB | 01:04:14
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM

Eagerly anticipated album by Georgia’s Giya Kancheli (“the most important composer to have emerged from the former Soviet Union since the death of Shostakovich.” – Time Magazine), released in the year of his 70th birthday. This disc features one of Kancheli’s most ardent champions, the great violinist Gidon Kremer., who plays in duo with his old comrade, Russian pianist Oleg Maisenberg on the 26 minute 'Time… and again”, and leads the Kremerata Baltica on “V & V” for violin, taped voice, and string orchestra.
Alexander Ivashkin, Russian State SO, Valeri Polyansky - Giya Kancheli: Simi; Mourned by the Wind (2005)

Giya Kancheli - Simi; Mourned by the Wind (2005)
Alexander Ivashkin, cello; Russian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valeri Polyansky

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 219 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Artwork included
Contemporary Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10297 | Time: 01:04:56

Giya Kancheli is one of Eastern Europe's most important contemporary composers, respected by musicologists and fellow composers alike. Schnittke said of him: 'His most striking quality…is the rare gift of being able to suspend all sense of time. From the very first note we are released from our ordinary, everyday time-sense to float, cloud-like, in eternity.' The political upheavals through which Kancheili has lived have greatly affected his music, which dwells on a complexity of interrelated themes - grief, fear, solitude, vigil, memory, nostalgia, innocence, intolerance, protest. It is profoundly influenced by the spirit of the folk music of his native Georgia.
George Vatchnadze, Suren Bagratuni - Giya Kancheli: 33 Miniatures (2019)

George Vatchnadze, Suren Bagratuni - Giya Kancheli: 33 Miniatures (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 260 Mb | Total time: 86:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Piano Classics | # PCL10198 | Recorded: 2014

The pianist George Vatchnadze was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi but now lives and works in Chicago as Professor of Piano at DePaul University School of Music, having studied with several renowned artists from his homeland such as Alexander Toradze. As winner of prestigious competitions including the Gina Bachauer Competition in 1994, he has given concerts across Europe and the US with the likes of Valery Gergiev and Gianandrea Noseda. For this album he has gathered together 33 short pieces drawn from the huge oeuvre of film music composed by the greatest Georgian composer of our time, Giya Kancheli.
Maxim Rysanov, Liepaja SO, Maris Sirmais - Giya Kancheli: Styx; John Tavener: The Myrhh-Bearer (2007)

Giya Kancheli: Styx; John Tavener: The Myrhh-Bearer (2007)
Maxim Rysanov, viola; Liepāja Symphony Orchestra; Kamēr… Choir; Māris Sirmais, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 341 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 202 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary, Choral | Label: Onyx | # ONYX 4023 | Time: 01:17:55

Rysanov’s ONYX debut is of two extraordinarily beautiful and haunting works for viola and chorus/orchestra: both written for Bashmet, and the Tavener is a world-première recording! Giya Kancheli’s Styx is already renowned as a choral masterpiece for the 21st century, The River Styx in Greek mythology separates the living from the dead and the solo viola mediates between the two. John Tavener’s The Myrrh-Bearer is another epic, this time based on the Troparion of Cassiane, a Byzantine poet and composer. Here the viola represents the sin of Mary Magdalen. Both works were recorded in the amazing Dome Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, the largest medieval church in the Baltics, has just the right expansive acoustic for this music.
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, James DePreist - Giya Kancheli: Symphonies 1, 4 & 5 (1995)

Giya Kancheli: Symphonies 1, 4 & 5 (1995)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; James DePreist, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 234 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 144 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE829-2 | Time: 00:59:22

Giya Kancheli is one of Eastern Europe's most important contemporary composers, respected by musicologists and fellow composers alike. Schnittke said of him: 'His most striking quality…is the rare gift of being able to suspend all sense of time. From the very first note we are released from our ordinary, everyday time-sense to float, cloud-like, in eternity.' The political upheavals through which Kancheili has lived have greatly affected his music, which dwells on a complexity of interrelated themes - grief, fear, solitude, vigil, memory, nostalgia, innocence, intolerance, protest. It is profoundly influenced by the spirit of the folk music of his native Georgia.
Kim Kashkashian, Dennis Russell Davies - Kancheli: Vom Winde Beweint; Schnittke: Konzert Fur Viola Und Orchester (1992)

Giya Kancheli: Vom Winde Beweint; Alfred Schnittke: Konzert Für Viola Und Orchester (1992)
Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 298 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 200 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1471, 437 199-2 | 01:07:28

This powerful record brings together two of the most seminal works for viola and orchestra of the twentieth century. Although these pieces are as different as they are similar, together they form a distinct balance of sentiment and execution.

Gidon Kremer - Giya Kancheli: Lament (1998)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 21, 2023
Gidon Kremer - Giya Kancheli: Lament (1998)

Gidon Kremer - Giya Kancheli: Lament (1998)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 41:59 | 132 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series | Catalog: 4651382

Giya Kancheli possesses one of music's unmistakable voices. It speaks softly of sorrow, loss, solitude and transcendence. Most of his works are in a mode of lamentation, and many are dedicated to departed friends, as is 'Lament (Music of mourning in memory of Luigi Nono).

Georgian Strings - Kancheli: Letters to Friends (2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at June 1, 2019
Georgian Strings - Kancheli: Letters to Friends (2019)

Georgian Strings - Kancheli: Letters to Friends (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 260 MB | Tracks: 25 | 67:52 min
Style: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Giya Kanchelis cult reputation as one of the most profound musical voices of our time has not always been matched by the availability of his music on record. These world premiere recordings of works written (or recomposed and arranged) between 2016 and 2018 are thus a significant contribution to the Kancheli discography. They find the composer at his most charming and epigrammatic in a series of 25 musical letters for violin and string orchestra. Most of them are under three minutes in length, taking their material from themes written by the Georgian composer for the film scores which he has composed throughout his career.
Jenny Lin & Guy Klucevsek - Kancheli - Simple Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Jenny Lin & Guy Klucevsek - Kancheli - Simple Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 62:58 minutes | 1,88 GB
Classical | Label: Steinway and Sons, Official Digital Download

Jenny Lin commands a vast repertoire, from the most obscure modern music to the most tried and true of romantic warhorses.