Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli: Chiaroscuro

by Hrayr Attarian
December 24, 2015

Introspective Georgian composer Giya Kancheli turned 80 years old in on August 10, 2015. As a birthday commemoration ECM has released two of his most intimate works on the deeply mystical Chiaroscuro. In addition to the title track the album includes the musing “Twilight" for two violins and orchestra. Inspired by Kancheli's brush with a serious illness, “Twilight" is a cinematic meditation on mortality that encompasses a moving, emotional continuum. It opens with the two violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja ...