Name: Voices from the East: Georgia & Armenia
Start: 2024-05-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Admin

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Conductor

Kirill Karabits

Orchestra

Voices from the East: Georgia & Armenia

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Voices from the East: Georgia & Armenia: Styx Kancheli (+1 More)

Public

Styx

Symphony No. 3

Approved

South Bank Centre

For the second concert of the day, the focus is on music by two composers who were close friends: Giya Kancheli from Georgia and Avit Terterian from Armenia.

Kancheli’s Styx was inspired in 1999 by the deaths of his beloved colleagues, Terterian and Alfred Schnittke. At its core, the viola soloist represents the mythical river that departing souls must cross.

Kancheli writes: ‘…the voice of the viola is capable of bringing together the world of the living and the world of the dead, divided by the waters of Styx.'

‘Only the viola, with the richness of its sound and versatility of expression, can bring the soul to reconciliation, peace and harmony.’

Finally, Terterian’s Symphony No.3 is a deeply personal contemplation of the composer’s own grief following the death of his brother.

Karabits says of Terterian’s music: ‘It is like a mirror in which you look at yourself; it excites your imagination and takes you on a powerful emotional journey.’

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble