Composer: Giya Kancheli Artist: Andrea Cortesi (violin) Marco Venturi (piano)
About this Album: Any album of music by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli is eagerly awaited by a wide audience receptive to his particular, post-Soviet voice, which has touched the hearts and minds of many thousands of listeners through his music for both film and concert hall during a career spanning seven decades and the rise and fall of Communism. Kancheli’s music tends to be associated with particular artists, who have been eloquent advocates for his work: the conductor Djansug Kakhidze, the violinist Gidon Kremer and violist Uri Bashmet, all of whom have shown long-standing dedication and thorough understanding of an idiom that requires some patience and deep concentration on the part of both performers and listeners to reap rewards.