How I love this always ! My son sent me long long time ago and said :relax, close your eyes and listen to the Galaktion Tabidze’s The Moon Over Mtatsminda Its a surprising episode on Jan Garbareks disc, as the performance does not feature him as instrumentalist. Garbarek met composer, Jansug Kakhidze, in 1996, while in Georgia to perform Giya Kancheli’s Night Prayers with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. In a subsequent conversation with producer Manfred Eicher, Garbarek learned that the conductor-composer-vocalist had been seriously ill. Eicher played the saxophonist a tape of a song Kakhidze had written while recovering from heart surgery. Garbarek : It had such an immediate emotional impact that, as it came to an end I spontaneously said, ‘Can we have this piece on my album! Although convinced that a song from the heart needs no further justification he also sought a rational pretext to include it alongside his own pieces. The rites of passage motif serves to link it to We Are The Stars. In the Passamaquoddy poem-setting, we hear the voices of the boys,in the beginning of their life-cycle, looking at the hills with disdain. For Kakhidze, grateful to be alive, the natural world now has an enhanced meaning: My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely... Kakhidze, 62, is probably best known for his championing of the work of Kancheli - he has premiered all of the symphonies written by the Georgian composer - but in his long career has conducted musics of many epochs and styles, and his current repertoire includes operas, ballets and symphonic works by composers including Haydn, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Shostakovich as well as much contemporary music. He has toured internationally with the Tbilisi Symphony (heard on Moon over Mtatsminda) and conducted leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and Australia.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:11:19 +0000
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