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Alkis Baltas: Intimate Dialogues

Spyros Gikontis (violin), Eleni Petridou (violin), Costas Anastassopoulos (violin), Alkis Baltas (tape), Vicky Stylianou (violin), Alea III Ensemble, dissonArt, Theodore Antoniou, Nikos Athineos

Alkis Baltas: Intimate Dialogues

Alkis Baltas: Intimate Dialogues

Spyros Gikontis (violin), Eleni Petridou (violin), Costas Anastassopoulos (violin), Alkis Baltas (tape), Vicky Stylianou (violin), Alea III Ensemble, dissonArt, Theodore Antoniou, Nikos Athineos

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This album includes five works. In sophisticated "Suite" for piano, newer techniques, such as 12-tone elements and clusters, are combined with some traditional forms, such as those of canon and fugato. For the composition "Vision" extracts of melodies of Hildegard von Bingen were used, which composer processed in the computer in such a way to not be identified, and he mixed them with sounds of the wind, waves, and others. The sources of inspiration of the pieces of music which constitute the work "Greek Dialogues" are five very well-known dialogues which are connected inherently with Greek history and civilization. The work "Echoes", with the subtitle of the work "Memories from Our Folk Music", explains the intention of the composer not to create a composition with folklore character, but a modern work with distant rhythmic and melodic references to Greek folk music. These references are so short and fleeting that sometimes they are barely acknowledged.

Contents and tracklist

I. Prologue
Track length1:31
II. Hector and Andromache
Track length5:23
III. Theophilos and Kassiani
Track length5:33
IV. Erotokritos and Aretousa
Track length4:34
V. North Wind and His Mother
Track length2:59
VI. Karagiozis and Fatme
Track length1:54
VII. Epilogue
Track length1:34
I. — (Live)
Track length1:51
II. — (Live)
Track length0:42
III. — (Live)
Track length1:13
IV. — (Live)
Track length1:27
V. — (Live)
Track length2:29
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