Kancheli: ... à la Duduki & Trauerfarbenes Land

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…à la Duduki (a 'duduki' is a Georgian folk-reed instrument) should prove the ideal introduction to Kancheli's current style. And while a momentary encounter might suggest familiar territories... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 4578502
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 56 minutes

Kancheli: ... à la Duduki

Work length18:59

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Radio Symphonieorchester Wien
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 1997-08-31
Recording Venue: ORF-Studio, Vienna

Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land

Work length37:34

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Radio Symphonieorchester Wien
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 1997-08-31
Recording Venue: ORF-Studio, Vienna

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2010

…à la Duduki (a 'duduki' is a Georgian folk-reed instrument) should prove the ideal introduction to Kancheli's current style. And while a momentary encounter might suggest familiar territories revisited (vast terrains sparsely but dramatically populated), the musical material is more immediately striking, the scoring more texturally variegated, and the time sequences – even the rhetorical uses of silence – quite different from those in Kancheli's other recent work. Furthermore, echoes of modern jazz frequently fall within earshot.
Trauerfarbenes Land ('Country the Colour of Mourning') employs a large orchestra and is different again, being nearly twice as long as …àla Duduki and darker in tone.
The opening has solo piano and fortissimo trombones hammer what sounds like a recollection of Carl Ruggles before six significant quavers (which turn up again later, in different hues and keys) mark a dramatic dynamic contrast. Time and again Kancheli's penchant for 'cliff-hanger' climaxes bring us to the edge of a towering aural precipice. This is the music of personal displacement: desolate, spacious, occasionally cryptic, and with sudden pangs of sweetened nostalgia that flutter across the canvas like torn diary jottings tossed by the wind. Dennis Russell Davies and producer Manfred Eicher conjure between them a precision-tooled sound picture where every grade of nuance is meticulously reported.
Performance standards are unusually high throughout, so much so that it's hard to imagine either work being better played. An exceptional release of some extraordinarily powerful music.

Kancheli: ... à la Duduki & Trauerfarbenes Land

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