Name: Anajikon
Brand: Konstantia Gourzi

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Catalogue number

4855840

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-30

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028948558407

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Konstantia Gourzi

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Modern Composition

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<i>Anajikon</i>, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet by Athens-born and Munich-based Konstantia Gourzi, incorporates her chamber and orchestral music of the past decade. The composer also conducts the Lucerne Academy Orchestra here: "I see composing and conducting as a whole, as an inseparable relationship," she says. Gourzi is particularly concerned with making connections between the arts, which also relates to the question of her own artistic identity and the influence of her origins. In Gourzi's sound language, elements of different musical traditions repeatedly merge, and East and West enter into a dialogue. This album presents three of her compositions: her Third String Quartet Anajikon, her orchestral piece Ny-el (commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, in August 2016 with the orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy) as well as Hommage a Mozart, three Dialogues. Her works are performed on this new recording by Nils Monkemeyer (Viola); William Youn (Piano), the Lucerne Academy Orchestra and the Minguet Quartett . 

Anajikon

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