060891720036

As You Like It

Nino Gvetadze

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Format: CD

Cat No: CC720036

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Release Date:  19 September 2025

Label:  Challenge Classics

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  060891720036

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

Composer/Series:  As you like it

  • Description

    The sixth recording by Nino Gvetadze on Challenge Classics is an hommage to her motherland, Georgia. The release comprises gentle and delicate short piano pieces by the greatest figures of late 20th Century Georgian music: Giya Kancheli and Nodar Gabunia, who were also friends.

    Nino Gvetadze: Some music stays with you for a lifetime -- not just in your memory, but in your hands, your ears, your way of feeling the world. For me, that music began in Tbilisi, Georgia, where I was born and raised, and where these sounds first took root. The journey of this album begins with the music of Nodar Gabunia -- a composer, mentor, and teacher who shaped my early musical voice. His musical language is deeply personal, yet unmistakably his -- full of clarity, warmth, wisdom, wit, and beauty. The second half of the album gently shifts into the sound world of Giya Kancheli -- a close friend of Gabunia's. While internationally renowned for his symphonic works, at home Kancheli's music for theatre and film is woven into the fabric of daily life. His melodies drift through the air -- subtle, poetic, melancholic, and full of unspoken emotion. Recording this album felt less like performing and more like remembering. The music flowed naturally, as if something long held inside was finally finding its voice. It felt like writing a diary in sound -- one filled with affection, gratitude and quiet moments of awe.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Nodar Gabunia: From a Pupil's Diary - 1. Morning
      • 2. 2. On the Way to School
      • 3. 3. School Bell
      • 4. 4. History Lesson
      • 5. 5. Arithmetics Lesson
      • 6. 6. Singing Lesson
      • 7. 7. Physics Lesson
      • 8. 8. On the Way Home
      • 9. 9. In the Yard (On Horseback)
      • 10. 10. Watching TV
      • 11. 11. Lullaby
      • 12. 12. Dream
      • 13. Nodar Gabunia: Children's Pieces for Grown-Ups - No 1. Crooning to the Handbell
      • 14. Children's Pieces for Grown-Ups - No 8. Waltz
      • 15. Nodar Gabunia: Dedication
      • 16. Giya Kancheli: 33 Miniatures - No. 1 Theme from King Lear
      • 17. No. 2 Valse from The Eccentrics
      • 18. No. 3 Theme from When Almonds Blossomed
      • 19. No. 5 Theme from As You Like It
      • 20. No. 9 Theme from Mother Courage And Her Children
      • 21. No. 10 Main theme from Twelfth Night
      • 22. No. 11 Theme from The Blue Mountains
      • 23. No. 12 Theme from Waiting for Godot
      • 24. No. 13 Rag-Time from Richard lll
      • 25. No. 14 Theme from White Stones
      • 26. No. 15 Theme from The Caucasian Chalk Circle
      • 27. No. 16 Theme from The Role For A Beginner
      • 28. No. 17 Valse from Richard lll
      • 29. No. 22 Valse from Don t Grieve
      • 30. No. 23 Theme from Bear's Kiss
      • 31. No. 24 Main theme from Kin-Dza-Dza
      • 32. No. 25 Main theme from Hamlet
      • 33. No. 26 Song from Earth, This is Your Son
      • 34. No. 28 Main theme from Cinema
      • 35. No. 30 Valse from The Role For A Beginner
      • 36. No. 31 Main theme from Sunny Night
      • 37. No. 32 Theme from Mother Courage And Her Children
      • 38. No. 33 Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Instead of Tango)
      • 39. No. 8 Theme from Mimino'' (Yellow Leaves)