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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')... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2008
Catalogue No: 4766394
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 61 minutes

Kancheli: Amao Omi

Work length26:10

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Netherlands Chamber Choir, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
Klaas Stok
Recorded: 2008
Recording Venue: Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam

Kancheli: Little Imber

Work length35:44

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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

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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.

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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.

Giya Kancheli - Little Imber

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