Anájikon

 
Anájikon cover $40.00 Out of Stock
2-4 weeks add to cart

KONSTANTIA GOURZI
Anájikon
Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguett Quartett, Luzern Academy Orchestra

[ ECM New Series / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 30 April 2021

This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.

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.

Tracks:

KONSTANTIA GOURZI - HOMMAGE À MOZART, OP. 56
1. I con eleganza, intense, tanzend05:28
2. II singing, sostenuto, dreamish03:49
3. III scherzoso, ma calmo05:41

KONSTANTIA GOURZI - NY-ÉL - TWO ANGELS IN THE WHITE GARDEN, OP. 65
4. Eviction03:16
5. Exodus04:34
6. Longing02:45
7. The White Garden06:06

KONSTANTIA GOURZI - ANÁJIKON - THE ANGEL IN THE BLUE GARDEN, OP. 61
8. The Blue Rose04:37
9. The Blue Bird05:13
10. The Blue Moon - The Bright Side04:24
11. The Blue Moon - Turning00:48
12. The Blue Moon - The Dark Side03:57