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Kim Kashkashian Sarah Rothenberg Steven Schick Houston Chamber Choir Robert Simpson.: Rothko Chapel
by Hrayr Attarian
On ECM's superb and captivating Rothko Chapel an elite group of musicians interprets Morton Feldman's sublime title piece and several others by John Cage and, the father of western musical modernism, Erik Satie. The disc explores the common conceptual and stylistic threads between the Feldman and Cage's works and their origins in Satie's oeuvre. Although Feldman's composition is not recorded in the Chapel itself the ambience is evocative of the physical building itself. The spiritual sanctuary and painter ...
read moreKim Kashkashian: Kurtag/Ligeti: Music for Viola
by Hrayr Attarian
There are more jokes about the viola, perhaps, than any other member of the violin family, but there are also exquisitely written pieces of music that in the hands of virtuosos come alive with vivid emotion and erudite articulation. Boston-based Kim Kashkashian is one of the premier violists in the world and has recorded many fine, edgy and stimulating albums. With Kurtág/Ligeti: Music for Viola, she tackles two of the more challenging composers of the last half ...
read moreKim Kashkashian: Neharot
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il nuovo album della violista armena Kim Kashkashian, Neharot, raccoglie cinque lamentazioni tradizionali includendo solo composizioni scritte da compositori di area medio-orientale, rispettivamente “Neharót Neharót" dell'israeliana Betty Olivero, “Tagh for the Funeral of the Lord" e “Three Arias" del libanese-armeno Tigran Mansurian (che a sua volta interpreta “Oror" di Komitas) e “Rava Deravin" scritto da uno degli astri nascenti della musica israeliana, Eitan Steinberg. “Neharot Neharot" (per viola, fisarmonica, percussioni e due ensemble di corde, voci registrate) è senza dubbio ...
read moreKim Kashkashian - Robert Levin: Asturiana
by AAJ Italy Staff
Collaboratori da oltre vent’anni, autori di altri due dischi in duo per la stessa ECM (uno dei quali, con le sonate per violino e pianoforte di Brahms, vincitore di premi una decina d’anni fa), la violista di origini armene Kim Kashkashian e il pianista Robert Levin sono qui impegnati in un lavoro dal doppio significato progettuale: il recupero, la trascrizione e l’esecuzione di brani di compositori d’area ispanica e tutti quanti nati originariamente come canzoni - e perciò eseguiti alla ...
read moreKim Kashkashian / Robert Levin: Asturiana: Songs from Spain and Argentina
by John Kelman
It's curious that, of the instruments in the classical string quartet, the viola is the least often heard as a leading voice. Richer and deeper-toned than the violin, but higher in range than the cello, it's the ideal instrument to interpret material written for voice. Violist Kim Kashkashian has, since the mid-1980s, been a fixture on ECM's New Series which, parallel to its regular series, focuses on music that is composed rather than improvised. Her relationship with pianist Robert Levin ...
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