Konstantia Gourzi - Anájikon (Album EPK) | ECM Records

Konstantia Gourzi - Anájikon Nils Mönkemeyer: viola; William Youn: piano Lucerne Academy Orchestra, Konstantia Gourzi, conductor Minguet Quartett: Ulrich Isfort; violin; Annette Reisinger: violin; Aroa Sorin: viola; Matthias Diener: violoncello ECM New Series 2545 Release: 30. April 2021 The album is available here: https://ECM.lnk.to/AnajikonID 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. This album presents three of her compositions: her Third String Quartet Anájikon, her orchestral piece Ny-él (commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, in August 2016 with the orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy) as well as Hommage à Mozart, three Dialogues. Website: https://www.ecmrecords.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecmrecords Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecm_records