Kancheli Music

[jazzy_dave]

As well as jazz , I am into what Wire magazine calls modern composition. Giya Kancheli falls into that category. Modern classical music with an edge you could say -



Symphony no.2 was composed in 1970, whilst numero seven was composed  in 1986. he is a Georgian composer now resident in Belgium.

 In his symphonies, Kancheli's musical language typically consists of slow scraps of minor-mode melody against long, subdued, anguished string discords. These passages are occasionally punctuated with "battle scenes" involving martial brass and percussion.

Some commentators talk about his music in cinematic terms; one can find equivalents of the dissollve (in his ubiquitous blurred tonal transitions), zoom (such as the long crescendo a third of the way into the Sixth Symphony), abrupt cuts (jumping from very quiet to very loud, as in the opening of the Fifth Symphony), and so on.