Reviews

CD-review: Kantsjeli's Little Imber

02.02.2009

The Georgian Giya Kancheli, a composer of musical primeval landscapes, thunderstorms and depressions, where the listener comes to feel lonely and alone (his music is best described thus: ‘buzzzz...BOOM’ ), appears to have developed a quasi-liturgical tone language for his Amao Omi (futile war) from 2005.
This resembles a combination of a Roman Catholic motet by Poulenc, a nuns’ chorus from a Puccini opera, Byzantine prayer chants and a neo-Lutheran Sunday school. But then more subtle and also more Kancheli-like. Because: ...’BOOM’. The Nederlands Kamerkoor, supported by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and conducted by Klaas Stok, sings it as if it does so every Sunday. [...]

De Volkskrant, 29 January 2009