Exile

Settings of Psalm 23 and poems by Paul Celan ("one of the most important German -language poets of our century") and Hans Sahl for Soprano and mixed chamber ensemble.

"From strife-torn Georgia comes a man who may well be the most important Soviet composer since Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia.

Says Kancheli, a devout Orthodox Christian, 'When a person goes into a church, synagogue or mosque where there's not service going on, there's a special kind of silence. I want to turn that silence into music.' In Kancheli's hands the sounds of silence are hauntingly eloquent."
--Michael Walsh, Time Magazine