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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 09:33:51, 16-12-2007 »
Did anyone else catch this extraordinary program?

Exactly the kind of forward-looking broadcasting BBC R3 ought to be doing - so full marks for taking the initiative to send Lucy Duran and a crew to Tbilisi to record this material live on-location.

Does anyone else hear musical links between the polyphonic sacred music of Georgia, and C11th-12th organa from the Notre-Dame School?
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« Reply #1 on: 10:02:58, 16-12-2007 »
As intimated before, this was earmarked for the Dough Archive as soon as I knew it was coming, Rei, although I've not yet had a chance to catch up with it, since the same machine was required to capture the Met Roméo et Juliette with Netrebko and Alagna (a brief visit to which seems to reveal some odd sounds from the latter) and then the Stockhausen Hear and Now....

I've mentioned over at TOP what a valuable exercise I think this is: there has been almost no new material from Georgia since the mid-nineties, despite the fact that it has one of the strongest and most ancient musical traditions in the western hemisphere, caused by the cross-fertilisation of folk and religious traditions from (to put it simply) the Slavic North, the Arabic South and East, and the Balkan European tradition to its west. Sometimes its traditions have developed in parallel with traditions elsewhere, whilst still assuming flavours from rather different influences: perhaps their sacred polyphonic music and the Notre-Dame School organa have a common but lost Byzantine root?
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« Reply #2 on: 10:21:34, 16-12-2007 »
Quote from: Ron Dough on 10:02:58, 16-12-2007
perhaps their sacred polyphonic music and the Notre-Dame School organa have a common but lost Byzantine root?

Something of the kind seems very likely, doesn't it? 

Of course, Georgia wasn't always cut-off in obscurity - during the times of David The Builder, and King Tamara* prior to the Mongolian conquest in the Middle Ages, the Georgian court was an active, if distant, member of the European circle of royal families... Princesses from "Trebizond" married into the Hungarian and Bohemian royal dynasties.  Maybe this intercultural activity in the Middle Ages extended to music too?

* she had to be called "King", because medieval Georgian had no word for ""Queen"  Wink

(For anyone who missed it, the prog is available on Listen Again, and Part Two is broadcast on Sat Dec 22 at 15:00 London Time)
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« Reply #3 on: 00:55:49, 17-12-2007 »
I'm starting to catch up with the editing and transferring, and the first programme is safely dealt with, giving me a chance to listen: the musical examples were all interesting, and superbly recorded. As a travelogue, it gave far more of a flavour of the culture than today's anodyne celebrity-led TV shows could ever hope to achieve. Marvellous.
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« Reply #4 on: 01:10:01, 17-12-2007 »
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I usually record World Routes each week but I forgot yesterday for some reason and now here you are saying what a good programme it was. I'll just have to grab it off LA and put up with the awful quality.
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« Reply #5 on: 09:22:26, 17-12-2007 »
Part 2 is this Saturday at 15:00, London Time, Andy, so at least you can grab some of it Smiley  Completely agreed with Ron about the way in which atmosphere and character were conveyed...  really first-class radio in every way,  undoubtedly the highlight of my week.  Smiley
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