MUSIC, LIKE LIFE ITSELF… | Malta International Music Festival

15 APRIL - 1 MAY 2018

Valletta

Music, like life itself...

The concert dedicated to the music of Giya Kancheli

Andrea Cortesi Violin

Giorgi Zagareli Viola

Sergey Smbatyan Conductor

Armenian State Symphony Orchestra

Venue: Republic hall, Mediterranean Conference Center

april

20:00

Music, like life itself, is inconceivable without romanticism. Romanticism is a high dream of the past, present, and future – a force of invincible beauty which towers above, and conquers, the forces of ignorance, bigotry, violence, and evil.

— Giya Kancheli

Andrea Cortesi (Violin)

Giorgi Zagareli (Viola)

Armenian State Symphony Orchestra

Sergey Smbatyan (Conductor)

Kancheli’s sound-world has something incredibly natural about it. His musical structures are orientated on emotional aspects such as intensifi cation and tension, excitement and calm. He works with dynamic extremes and not infrequently demands extreme slowness. In terms of atmosphere, Kancheli’s music is closely connected with his homeland of Georgia without actually quoting Georgian folklore. Nostalgia and melancholy, as well as sadness over the political conditions in the former Soviet Union (“Life without Christmas”) and the destruction of the Georgian civil war mark his production.