CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Modern Classics/SU)      

Recorded May 1986 and November 1991

Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn

Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester Saarbrucken

Dennis Russell Davies - conductor

Even in the first dissonant chord of Kancheli's Liturgy, the ensuing morbidity has already been located. I should tell you in advance, that from this discordant chord arises two wailing violas that never seem to modulate nor gather a pace greater than that of a vast funereal lament. Yes, this sublime work, written after the death of Kancheli's mentor, carries an air of lassitude that whilst conveying the profuse air of mourning, is equally never oblivious to the violence that precedes mourning: death.

As for Schnittke: I myself must confess to being distantly related to him and so am biased. But this work, the Viola Concerto, shares with Kancheli an air of loss, but only here the loss is frenetic and less resigned. The second movement, for example is a frantic chase to resist the grapple of mortality, whilst the third movement likewise struggles to bow before the composers death, and so expresses itself in an extended coda of militant defiance.