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Meeting my Shadow

Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

Meeting my Shadow

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Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise...

Meeting my Shadow

Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

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Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise...

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Giorgi Gigashvili is only twenty-two, but he is already hitting the headlines: now a pupil of Nelson Goerner, he is a protégé of Martha Argerich, who gave him the urge to play the piano alongside his first love, pop singing: at the age of thirteen, he was a contestant in The Voice in his homeland, Georgia, and won the prize! A few years later, Argerich discovered him at a piano competition, and he went on to win prizes at several more, including the Hortense Anda-Bührle Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich in 2021. Another high-flying mentor, the violinist Lisa Batiashvili, asked him to play him the piano on her recording of the Franck Violin Sonata. His free and spectacular playing impresses, his creativity and personality astonish. Here he presents his first recital, revealing his palette of colours: Scarlatti, Beethoven, Scriabin and Messiaen. But never far away is his shadow, the singer of the electro band Tsduneba (‘temptation’ in Georgian) which he founded with his friends.

Contents and tracklist

I. Introduction. Allegro vivace
Track length3:32
II. Variation 1
Track length0:37
III. Variation 2
Track length0:49
IV. Variation 3
Track length0:39
V. Variation 4
Track length0:35
VI. Variation 5
Track length0:48
VII. Variation 6
Track length0:33
VIII. Variation 7. Canone all'ottava
Track length0:39
IX. Variation 8
Track length0:54
X. Variation 9
Track length0:35
XI. Variation 10
Track length0:39
Variation 11
Track length0:41
XIII. Variation 12
Track length0:41
XIV. Variation 13
Track length0:38
XV. Variation 14
Track length1:22
XVI. Variation 15. Largo - Attacca Coda
Track length4:38
XVII. Finale (Alla Fuga). Allegro con brio
Track length4:09
No. 1, Andante moderato in E-Flat Major
Track length5:07
No. 2, Andante non troppo e con molto espressione in B-Flat Minor
Track length4:36
No. 3, Andante con moto in C-Sharp Minor
Track length5:55

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Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2024
    Nominated - Solo Instrument

Nov/Dec 2023

Messiaen comes at the center of the program, and what a tender, clear-headed, and ultimately rapturous performance this is, most sensitively colored by the pianist. For me, the biggest surprise was the trio of Brahms intermezzi. Gigashvili plays the first of these with breath-stopping tenderness, and then he plays the remaining two in a similarly interior way, quite contrary to the norm.
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