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A Tchaikowsky - Concerto classico; Kancheli - Libera me | CD Accord ACD293

A Tchaikowsky - Concerto classico; Kancheli - Libera me

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Label: CD Accord

Cat No: ACD293

Barcode: 5902176502935

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd June 2022

Contents

Artists

Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Magdalena Schabowska (soprano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Men’s Choir

Conductor

Andrzej Boreyko

Works

Kancheli, Giya

Libera me (Quasi-Requiem)

Tchaikowsky, Andre

Concerto classico

Artists

Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Magdalena Schabowska (soprano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Men’s Choir

Conductor

Andrzej Boreyko

About

Despite the rather numerous and diverse orchestral line-up, the idea of concertare has a more chamber-like character in André Tchaikowsky’s Concerto classico. The soloist is usually not directly confronted with the massive sound of a full orchestral tutti, but rather is involved in dialogues and interactions with small groups of instruments.

With exceptional naturalness, Tchaikowsky managed to achieve in this concerto a balance between solo violin and a full-scale symphony orchestra, employing textures of a linear, quasi-polyphonic character – enriched, however, by intense and refined harmony and contrapuntal devices drawing on the Baroque tradition.

In his final composition, the “Quasi-Requiem” Libera me, written in the Autumn of 2018, Giya Kancheli bypassed the Latin Responsory from the Catholic Office of the Dead which had inspired composers from Verdi and Fauré to Britten and Penderecki. He chose, instead, to freely set words by two of his country’s greatest poets: Vazha-Pshavela (1861–1915) and Galaktion Tabidze (1892–1959). For most of his life, Kancheli had maintained a respectful artistic distance from these Georgian masters, dazzled by their brilliance, by the “intrinsic musicality” of their poems, loving them too much, in fact, to draw too close.

Near the end of his life, however, Kancheli set reticence aside and allowed the sentiments and revelations of Tabidze and Vazha-Pshavela to influence his imagination and guide him to new music. The text of his Libera me is drawn almost entirely from their work, with the exception of the thirteenth verse, written by the composer to form a bridge between the two poets.

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