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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Christmas Trilogy (for men‘s and boys‘ choirs and symphony orchestra): I Glory Alleluia 06:14
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Christmas Trilogy (for men‘s and boys‘ choirs and symphony orchestra): II Elegy 09:12
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Christmas Trilogy (for men‘s and boys‘ choirs and symphony orchestra): III Advent Suite 24:45
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Moon Dances (for cello and chamber orchestra): I Blues 07:44
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Moon Dances (for cello and chamber orchestra): II Valse 06:42
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Moon Dances (for cello and chamber orchestra): III Scherzo 03:43
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Vakhtang Kakhidze: Moon Dances (for cello and chamber orchestra): IV Rondo 04:17

about

In 2000 Vakhtang Kakhidze, son of the legendary Georgian
conductor Djansug Kakhidze and multi-talented as
composer, conductor and pianist received a request from
Switzerland to compose a musical praise on the occasion of the
bimillenary of the birth of Jesus Christ. It came from the
famous Swiss Army Brass Band, which needed something
special for a tour across their country. So they actually
commissioned the composer and in the same year Vakhtang
Kakhidze accomplished ”Glory Alleluia”, “Elegy” and “Advent
Suite“ for men‘s and boy‘s choirs and brass band.
In 2003 he created a new version of these pieces for large
symphony orchestra. It brought another intensity to the colour
of sound, but he still kept the emphasis on the brass section
sonority, which maintains and even enhances the solemnity of
the whole musical layout. And eventually, as the three pieces
are united by one entire idea, the composer now decided to
give them a common name: Christmas Trilogy. And indeed
the number 3 turns out to be more than just a digit – it is a
kind of interface for the three movements as well as for the
three living languages (Georgian, Russian and German), which
are used in the lyrics, moreover for the three music groups,
which perform the cycle, for the three vocal traditions in
Christian liturgical singing and last but not least for the trinity,
which the whole Trilogy is basically about.
Moon Dances was commissioned by the famous French cellist
Emilia Baranovska and was written in 1994. The same year
the premier took place in Paris. Legendary Georgian composer
Giya Kancheli was a great admirer of this suite. He described
Vakhtang Kakhidze’s „vector of thinking“ as singing, which
he found perfectly well accomplished within this composition
and concluded: „In small musical forms – multi movement
suites, genre of musical miniature, songs – the so called
“singing” origin turns into blessing. I would particularly like to
emphasize that imperceptible “state of spirit” which we can so
rarely feel on recordings (in contrast with live-performances).
Moon Dances for cello and chamber orchestra is recorded
tremendously. (...) Right here I feel that rarely achievable ‚live
breath’ which I already mentioned before”.
The present release launches a new recording series in Tbilisi,
Georgia which will be presented under the newly designed
Golden Fleece Classics Logo. The recording is carefully
mastered by the prestigious Grammy award-winning b-sharp
studio Berlin.

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released December 6, 2019

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