TRIBUTE TO GIYA KANCHELI

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PROGRAMME

Giya Kancheli:
Five miniatures from the Songbook for piano
Having wept for cello
With a smile for Slava for piano and cello
Rag - Gidon - Time for violin and piano
Instead of a tango for piano trio
In l' istesso tempo for piano quartet
A little Danielade for piano quartet

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The concert is a tribute to the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, born in 1935.
The program, featuring works for solo instrument, duo, trio and quartet, highlights Kancheli's wonderful timbre palette and the magical atmosphere that the composer knows how to create through his unique musical idiom.
Playing with sounds and volumes, nostalgic, melancholic melodies which at times are intentionally comical and then at other times sound childish, are just a few of Giya Kancheli's characteristics. And as the Russian composer and pianist Rodion Schedrin described him, "he is an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist. He is a restrained Vesuvius"!