The Unknowable Gurdjieff
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
The “unknowable” Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, self-styled “teacher of temple dances” and seeker of spiritual truths, hummed and improvised music that his amanuensis, Thomas Hartmann, wrote down.
We hear a couple of Gurdjieff’s “compositions” this evening, from a CD that marks the first time this music has been arranged for cello and piano. You don’t want to miss these two explorations of his work by cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, “Duduki” and Variation 1 from “Chant from a Holy Book.”
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A will be essayed by pianist Cecile Licad, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and cellist Antonia Meneses. Then we look forward (oh, please do hurry and get here!) to a fairer season with Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony (No. 1 in B-flat), John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique.
We hear a couple of Gurdjieff’s “compositions” this evening, from a CD that marks the first time this music has been arranged for cello and piano. You don’t want to miss these two explorations of his work by cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, “Duduki” and Variation 1 from “Chant from a Holy Book.”
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A will be essayed by pianist Cecile Licad, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and cellist Antonia Meneses. Then we look forward (oh, please do hurry and get here!) to a fairer season with Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony (No. 1 in B-flat), John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique.
