Giya Kancheli - Selected Miniatures For Piano

Selected miniatures (17) from “Simple Music for Piano” book by Giya Kancheli.

Giya Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი; born 10 August 1935 in Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union) is one of the more distinctive voices in international contemporary music. His compositions have been praised by audiences from Soviet Moscow to London's Royal Albert Hall, and are frequently first heard in his native city of Tbilisi, Georgia. Alongside his special commissions from orchestras like the New York Philharmonic, he has also written musical scores for many indigenous film and stage productions.

From the author:

"While dedicating myself to symphonic and chamber music, I simultaneously wrote music for the stage and screen. No wonder, then, that certain themes originally intended for plays and films made their way into my larger works or that the large forms themselves sometimes contained episodes reminiscent of incidental music. I myself can’t always remember where a particular them first appeared, not least because the vast majority of more than a hundred of the films and plays for which I wrote music have now passed into history.

So I have decided to revive some lost fragments in this collection. Time will tell if they can survive outside their original context."

01. King Lear (1987) Play by William Shakespeare
02. The Eccentrics (1973) Film by Eldar Shengelaya
03. As you like it (1978) Play by William Shakespeare
04. Minimo (1977) Film by Georgi Danelia and Rezo Gabriadze
05. Twelfth Night (2002) Play by William Shakespeare
06. The Blue Mountains (1984) Film by Eldar Shengelaya
07. Waiting for Godot (2002) Play by Samuel Beckett
08. The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1975) Play by William Shakespeare
09. The Role for a Beginner (1979) Play by Tamaz Chiladze
10. Hamlet (1992) Play by William Shakespeare
11. Don't Grieve (1969) Film by Georgi Danelia
12. Bear's Kiss (2002) Film by Sergei Bodrov
13. Hamlet (1992) Play by William Shakespeare
14. Earth, This is your Son (1980) Film by Revaz Chkheidze
15. Cinema (1977) Film by Liana Eliava
16. The Role of a Beginner (1979) Play by Tamaz Chiladze
17. Mother Courage and her Children (1988) Play by Berholt Brecht

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