Giya Kancheli - Little Imber
Nika Memanishvili (conductor, keyboard), Mamuka Gaganidze (voice) & Zaza Miminoshvili (guitar)
Matrix Ensemble, Rustavi Choir, Children’s Choir, Netherlands Chamber Choir & Rashèr Saxophone Quartet, Klaas Stok
Haunting song forms are used to considerable effect, as are the voices of the children's choir and soloist Mamua Gaganidze in subtly coloured orchestral settings. Amao Omi ('senseless war')...
Giya Kancheli - Little Imber
Nika Memanishvili (conductor, keyboard), Mamuka Gaganidze (voice) & Zaza Miminoshvili (guitar)
Matrix Ensemble, Rustavi Choir, Children’s Choir, Netherlands Chamber Choir & Rashèr Saxophone Quartet, Klaas Stok
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Haunting song forms are used to considerable effect, as are the voices of the children's choir and soloist Mamua Gaganidze in subtly coloured orchestral settings. Amao Omi ('senseless war')...
About
ECM’s tenth release of the music of the great Georgian composer Giya Kancheli couples two recent choral works, one inspired by the lost village of Imber on Salisbury Plain, evacuated in 1943 for military manoeuvres and closed to the public ever since. The moving Little Imber was written for performance in its ancient church on the one day each year the former villagers are allowed to return, an Artangel project filmed for a captivating BBC documentary.
Contents and tracklist
- Netherlands Chamber Choir, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
- Klaas Stok
- Recorded: 2008
- Recording Venue: Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam
- Nika Memanishvili (keyboards), Mamuka Gaganidze (voice), Zaza Miminoshvili (guitar)
- Matrix Ensemble, Rustavi Choir, Children's Choir
- Recorded: 2008
- Recording Venue: Imber Village, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Awards and reviews
September 2008
Haunting song forms are used to considerable effect, as are the voices of the children's choir and soloist Mamua Gaganidze in subtly coloured orchestral settings. Amao Omi ('senseless war') is unmistakably the work of the same imagination, skilfully blending chamber choir with saxophones, creating a cool yet compassionate piece.
4th July 2008
Amao Omi, from 2005, inhabits more or less the same musical world [as Little Imber], but with its choral writing set against more urgent saxophone textures, the effect is less cloying and more purposeful.
