Giya Kancheli: Exil

Settings of Psalm 23 and poems by Paul Celan and Hans Sahl for Soprano and mixed chamber ensemble.

"From strife-torn Georgia comes a man who may well be the mostimportant Soviet composer since Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, whose olorousyetspiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy ofhis native Georgia. Says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian, ‘When a person goes into achurch, synagogue or mosque where there’s not service going on, there’s aspecial kind of silence. I want to turn that silence into music.’ InKancheli’s hands the sounds of silence are hauntingly eloquent." –Michael Walsh, Time Magazine