tracks

Hommage à Mozart, Op. 56
1-3 Three Dialogues For Viola And Piano, Op.56 (2014)
I Con Eleganza, Intense, Tanzend
II Singing, Sostenuto, Dreamish
III Scherzoso, Ma Calmo
Ny-él - Two Angels In The White Garden, For Orchestra, Op. 65
4-7 In Memoriam Claudio Abbado and Pierre Boulez (2015/16)
Eviction
Exodus
Longing
The White Garden
Anájikon - The Angel In The Blue Garden, Op. 61
String Quartet No.3, op.61 (2015)
The Blue Rose
The Blue Bird
The Blue Moon - The Bright Side
The Blue Moon - Turning
The Blue Moon - The Dark Side
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notes

Anájikon, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet (ECM New Series 2309) by Athens-born and Munich-based Konstantia Gourzi, incorporates her chamber and orchestral music of the past decade. The composer also conducts the Lucerne Academy Orchestra here: "I see composing and conducting as a whole, as an inseparable relationship," she says. Gourzi is particularly concerned with making connections between the arts, which also relates to the question of her own artistic identity and the influence of her origins. In Gourzi's sound language, elements of different musical traditions repeatedly merge, and East and West enter into a dialogue. This album presents three of her compositions: her Third String Quartet Anájikon, her orchestral piece Ny-él (commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, in August 2016 with the orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy) as well as Hommage à Mozart, three Dialogues.

credits

Design – - Sascha Kleis
Producer – - Manfred Eicher

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