RSO Wien & Dennis Russell Davies - Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land

Giya Kancheli's fifth album for ECM New Series is the first to be devoted exclusively to his orchestral music and features two extended pieces of often volcanic power that bear out the judgement of Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin: Kancheli is an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist, a smouldering Vesuvius. Impassioned performances by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the dynamic direction of Dennis Russell Davies make this another milestone in the career of a musician that Time magazine has said may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich.