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Formats and Editions
1. A Little Daneliade [09:12]
2. Valse Boston [22:23]
3. No.
4. Lontano [02:06]
5. No.
6. Cantabile, rubato [02:36]
7. No.
8. Cantabile grazioso [02:24]
9. No.
10. Dolce [03:07]
11. No.
12. Dolcissimo [03:04]
13. No. 1
14. Sostenuto [02:45]
15. No. 1
16. Quasi recitando [03:01]
17. No. 1
18. Dolcissimo [03:27]
19. No. 1
20. Dolce [02:25]
21. Largo [06:07]
22. Allegro [04:42)
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It was never even an unofficial club of composers like the Russian "Mighty Handful" or the French "Les Six". And yet, there are striking commonalities among a group of Soviet composers all born in the 1930s. They were hailed from ethnic minorities in the Russia-dominated Soviet Union and they defied the cultural-political directives which eventually led them to find a post-ideological musical language - guided by a personal faith - that enchants listeners to this day with it's unique beauty. Giya Kancheli, born in Tbilisi in 1935, is one of them. A fellow composer called him "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist - a restrained Vesuvius." The works on this disc - for and with the piano - display exactly that side of his: To be able to make time seemingly stand still... while continuing to danceEmail Signup
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