The music produced from the remarkable collaboration of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann typifies the creative explorations undertaken by many artists just after the turn of the 20th century. In visual art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) explored abstraction in both sight and sound, while composer Alexandre Skryabin (1872-1915) proposed an æsthetic format through his compositions that entailed the collaboration of colors, sounds, scents and movement. Each of these artists and th…
Anja Lechner (cello) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) play music by G.I. Gurdjieff arranged for their duo, with Tsabropoulos's own pieces after Byzantine hymns. Recorded December 2003 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, produced by Manfred Eicher.