George Gurdjieff. Thomas de Hartmann. Music. Алексей Любимов.

Георгий Гурджиев - Томас де Хартман. Фортепианный цикл "Искатели Истины. Путешествия в недоступные места", музыка для духовных упражнений. Исполняет Алексей Любимов (фортепиано). Малый зал Санкт-Петербургской филармонии. 20.02.2016. The Gurdjieff music divides into three distinct periods. The "first period" is the early music, including music from the ballet Struggle of the Magicians and music for early Movements, dating to the years around 1918. The "second period" music, for which Gurdjieff arguably became best known, written in collaboration with Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann, is described as the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann music.[Dating to the mid-1920s, it offers a rich repertory with roots in Caucasian and Central Asian folk and religious music, Russian Orthodox liturgical music, and other sources. This music was often first heard in the salon at the Prieuré, where much was composed. Since the publication of four volumes of this piano repertory by Schott, recently completed, there has been a wealth of new recordings, including orchestral versions of music prepared by Gurdjieff and de Hartmann for the Movements demonstrations of 1923–24. Solo piano versions of these works have been recorded by Cecil Lytle and Keith Jarrett. The "last musical period" is the improvised harmonium music which often followed the dinners Gurdjieff held in his Paris apartment during the Occupation and immediate post-war years to his death in 1949. In all, Gurdjieff in collaboration with de...