related works

In Memory of Giya : for violin, viola and cello / Savvas Karantzias

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: vn vla vc

Prelude and fugue : for Irish harp and harpsichord, (1973) / Willem de Vries Robbé

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: Irish-hp cemb

Mood music : for oboe and organ, (1965) / Rob du Bois

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: ob org

Sad Song : Version for piano and percussion / Bohdana Frolyak

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: perc pf

composition

In Memory of Giya : for violin, viola and cello / Savvas Karantzias

Other authors:
Karantzias, Savvas (Composer)
Description:
From the world premiere presentation at the Festival European Polyphony (Greece):
A tribute to the life and work of Georgia's leading composer and one of the most distinguished in the Soviet Union, but also in the world, in the late 20th century. In this particular work I try to combine the calm and the beauty that I receive through the music of Giya, with the latent violence, which occasionally explodes with a catastrophic expressive effect. Something that occupied him, but also that
is reflected in his works. An emotion I felt when his death was announced. As his colleague Rodion Shchedrin said, he described him as "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist - a restrained Vesuvius". The main musical idea of the project is based on the encryption of the name of G-I-Y-A and develops between harmony and Aeolian Missa.
Savvas Karantzias