Leading Georgian composer whose music combined stillness and beauty with expressive outbursts Giya Kancheli, who has died aged 84 of complications from a heart condition, became Georgia’s leading ...

One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century has died. Giya Kancheli was from Georgia — and the music he wrote, whether for films or for the concert hall, was full of light, shade and ...

Introspective Georgian composer Giya Kancheli turned 80 years old in on August 10, 2015. As a birthday commemoration ECM has released two of his most intimate works on the deeply mystical Chiaroscuro.

(Classical Detours meanders through stylistic byways, exploring new recordings from the fringes of classical music.) The best birthday presents are surprises. Composer Giya Kancheli turned 75 last ...

Of the three Eastern European composers who have sprung to prominence since the collapse of communism–Poland’s Henryk Gorecki, Estonia’s Arvo Part and Georgia’s Giya Kancheli–the latter is still the ...

There is a potent element in the sophisticated pioneer spirit of ECM Records and its founder, Manfred Eicher, that is perfectly illustrated by this recording. Giya Kancheli (born 1935) is a Georgian ...

I have always felt that comparing records by different artists was a somewhat lazy way of reviewing things. But in the case of Giya Kancheli’s new ECM release Themes From The Songbook, it seems ...

One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century has died. Georgia's Giya Kancheli wrote music full of light, shade and an... One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century ...

With the death of Giya Kancheli at the age of 84, the world has lost a musical colossus. His music, which on the surface became ever more austere, was in fact always a semi-dormant volcano, liable to ...

One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century has died. Giya Kancheli was from Georgia — and the music he wrote, whether for films or for the concert hall, was full of light, shade and ...