FULL REQUIEM (Vakhtang Kakhidze) Tblisi 2021 Giorgi Rostiashvili, Salome Kvaliashvili, Ketevan Kartvelishvili, Anna Ustiashvili
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem
- Composer: Kakhidze Vakhtang
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Kakhidze Music Center, Tblisi, Georgia
- Recorded: December 26, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Giorgi Rostiashvili, Salome Kvaliashvili, Ketevan Kartvelishvili, Anna Ustiashvili, Salome Makaridze, Giorgi Aleksandria, Giorgi Bugianishvili, Badri Chikhiashvili, Giorgi Manoshvili, Giorgi Natroshvili, Merab Samkurashvili Conductor Vakhtang Kakhidze
- Conductor: Vakhtang Kakhidze
- Orchestra: Tbilisis Symphony Orchestra
- Chorus: Georgia State Choir
- Chorus Master: Archil Ushveridze
- Stage Director: David Gersamia
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Vakhtang Kakhidze
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
“I hope that by creating this work, I could express at least a little my enormous gratitude, boundless respect, eternal love and constant longing for my parents,” wrote Vakhtang Kakhidze about his new creation “Requiem” dedicated to the memory of his parents, the world premiere of which will be held at Tbilisi Center for Music and Culture on December 26-27, 2021.
The work was written for a boy soloist, a female quartet, a male sextet, a symphony orchestra and a mixed choir. According to the author, throughout his creative career he pursued the idea of creating a Requiem and, choosing materials for works of different genres or styles, he always thought that sooner or later he would definitely use them in the Requiem. Only at the beginning of 2020, the final implementation of a long-term idea took place, which culminated in the creation of a composition of a large-scale musical form and since then has been waiting for a meeting with the listener!
Vakhtang (Vato) Kakhidze (Georgian: ვახტანგ (ვატო) კახიძე; Russian: Вахтанг Кахидзе; born 23 March 1959 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian composer and conductor. He is the son of conductor Jansug Kakhidze. He graduated and postgraduated from the Moscow State Conservatory. He studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov and orchestration with Edison Denisov. Kakhidze is the conductor of Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra since 1993.
In 2004 Vakhtang Kakhidze had concert tour with Tbilisi Symphony orchestra in Russia and Italy performing in such leading concert halls as Moscow Conservatory Big Hall and St. Petersburg Philharmony, Milan Conservatory Verdi Concert Hall, Santa Cecilia Music Academy new concert hall in Rome, Merano, Bari and other cities.
Vakhtang Kakhidze performed with such well-known music ensembles as: Prague Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra “New Russia” Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Symphony Orchestra, Paris Trinity Church Choir and Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, The Israel Camerata (Jerusalem), Ensemble del Arte (Germany), chamber orchestras “Moscow Soloists” and “Kremerata Baltica”.
Vakhtang Kakhidze collaborates with such outstanding musicians as Nino Surguladze, Nino Machaidze, Jan Garbarek, Zurab Sotkilava, Natalia Gutman, Michel Lethiec, Lisa Batiashvili, Francois Leleux, Eliso Virsaladze, Liana Isakadze, Alexander Toradze, Alexander Korsantia, José Carreras, Michel Legrand, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Didie Lockwood, Alexander Kniazev, Lado Ataneli, Iano Tamar, Viktor Tretjakov, and many others.
As composer Vakhtang Kakhidze works in different musical genres. His pieces are performed in Moscow, Petersburg, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, UK, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey, Israel, India, the United States and Japan. He is an author of soundtracks for films and drama performances, several jazz compositions and pop songs.