Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Minguet Quartett - Konstantia Gourzi: Anájikon (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 188 Mb | Total time: 50:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2545 | Recorded: 2016, 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 188 Mb | Total time: 50:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2545 | Recorded: 2016, 2018
Anájikon, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet (ECM New Series 2309) 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.