The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I Gurdjief

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I Gurdjieff

FT
August 19, 2011 11:14 pm

By David Honigmann

The mystic’s work is brought to its roots in the Caucasus

The mystic Georges Gurdjieff composed and dictated volumes of piano
music. Levon Eskenian’s Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble reclaims
these pieces from the salons of Paris and takes them back to their
roots in the Caucasus: played on blul, kamancha, santur, saz and above
all, Armenia’s melancholy apricot-wood flute, the duduk, they reveal
their origins and themselves.

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble

Music of Georges I Gurdjieff

(ECM)

From: A. Papazian

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