Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances

Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances

Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
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Composer: Georges Gurdjieff
Composer: Thomas de Hartmann
Performer: Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Performer: Anja Lechner
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Music Label: ECM
Soundtracks:
  1. Chant from a Holy Book
  2. Bayaty
  3. Prayer
  4. Duduki
  5. Interlude I
  6. Trois Morceaux après Hymnes Byzantins I
  7. Trois Morceaux après Hymnes Byzantins II
  8. Trois Morceaux après Hymnes Byzantins III
  9. Dance
  10. Chant
  11. Interlude II
  12. Assyrian Woman Mourners
  13. Armenian Song
  14. (No. 11)
  15. Woman´s Prayer
  16. Chant from a Holy Book, var. 1

Music reviews of Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances

Music Review: Inspired Subjectivity Encounters An Objective Music
Rating: 5 Stars

Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff's music was first given a broad public exposure with Keith Jarrett's recording "Sacred Hymns" in 1980. The public was perhaps already partly prepared for this music in 1979, due to the release of director Peter Brook's beautiful film on the life of G.I. Gurdjieff, "Meetings with Remarkable Men". The closing sequences of "Meetings with Remarkable Men" show the middle-aged Gurdjieff being taught about deep ontological truths through live performances of both music and dance.

In the 1920's, at his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, Gurdjieff continued this work by collaborating with Thomas de Hartmann on creating an "objective music". A music that "would work upon all listeners equally, focusing their mental life and bringing them to a new relationship with the living universe". It is probably Keith Jarrett, who has worked closely with the Gurdjieff Societies of both London and New York, that has produced the most "authentic" or "objective" reading of Gurdjieff's music in recent years.

On this ECM New Series disc of 2004, "Chants, Hymns and Dances", Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos decided to take a more liberal, "subjective", approach. Their interest in these compositions is perhaps more "musical than philosophical". Their suitability for this task should be apparent. Lechner's most recent work has involved interpreting the music of both Armenian Composer Tigran Mansurian and the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov. While Tsabropoulos, for his part, has worked with ancient Byzantine music and the music of the Greek Orthodox Church.

According to the informative liner notes by Steve Lake, "This music exists for the individual to make of it what he or she will, according to capacity". Lechner and Tsabropoulos both have deep experience with composed music and also with the process of free improvisation. Indeed, these two performers brilliantly interpret Gurdjieff's music with gentle assurance and a bright spontaneity. The five original compositions on this disc by Tsabropoulos even suggest an affinity with the Gurdjieff sensibility that borders on predestination.

"Chants, Hymns and Dances" is worthy of repeated encounter and remains serenely vital with each new audition. This is an ambiguous music that defies easy spiritual classification.
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