Giya Kancheli: Lament

im Gedenken an Luigi Nono

Gidon Kremer, Violine
Maacha Deubner, Sopran
Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Jansug Kakhidze, Dirigent

ECM New Series 1656
CD 465139-2

Soprano Maacha Deubner is a marvellous singer; her clear, perfectly tuned, unaffected tone is ideal for this music.
Classics Today.com , David Vernier

Maacha Deubner’s voice is gorgeous yet neutral, like that of an angel not quite ready to announce its physical presence.
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… Kremer’s lilting highs mesh beautifully with Maacha Deubner’s own as both pull the orchestra to a high summit …
Deubner seems to sing from somewhere not of this world. Her voice becomes a memory, something heard when I let down my mental guard.
ECM between sound and space – 12/2010

… a voice of such accuracy and purity that it raises clouds of overtones with the instruments. … She was a voice from across the Styx, haunting, weightless, poignant.
Philadelphia Inquirer / 1995

… Wie ein Schatten gleitet Maacha Deubners kühler Sopran mit klagenden Vokalisen durch das gedämpfte Licht der Instrumente, bis schließlich klar der Text des Gedichtes “Strophen” von Hans Sahl sich zu erkennen gibt: “Ich gehe langsam aus der Welt heraus (…) als wäre ich nie gewesen oder kaum.” Komposition und Interpretation rühren an alle Nerven und Sinne.
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