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What’s On

Three pianists and a piano

Composer Portrait: Giorgos Koumendakis

Dates

Prices

10 — 18 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday
Time
21:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

18 €
Concs 10 €

Three pianists will play a section from Koumendakis' work "Messogios Erimos" [Mediterranean Desert] plus a classical piece of their own choosing whose style is somehow analogous.

Three pianists –Alexandra Papastefanou, Lorenda Ramou and Giorgos Konstandinou– will play a section from “Messogios Erimos” [Mediterranean Desert] plus a classical piece of their own choosing whose style is somehow analogous (Alexander Scriabin, Leoš Janáček, J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel). The concert will end with the world premiere of the composer's work “A cricket in the blackbird's gorge”, for three pianists on a single piano, written especially for the concert.

“Messogios Erimos” (1998-2000), a work for solo piano, was commissioned by the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and consists of 24 pieces which draw on the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean for their content.

Program

Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata no. 9, op. 68, "Black Mass" (1912-1913)

Giorgos Koumendakis
"Messogios Erimos" [Mediterranean Desert, 1998-2000]

Piano: Giorgos Konstandinou

Leoš Janáček
"In the Mists" (1912)

Giorgos Koumendakis
"Messogios Erimos"

Intermission

Giorgos Koumendakis
"Three Mediterranenan Herbs"

Piano improvisation based on "Three Herbs"
Video installation & performance: Petros Touloudis
Soundscapes: Tim Ward
Based on Giannis Varveris' poem "Piano at the Bottom of the Sea"

Piano: Lorenda Ramou
Poem reading: K. Vita

Giorgos Koumendakis
"Messogios Erimos"

Maurice Ravel
"Miroirs" (extracts)
“Oiseaux tristes”
“Noctuelles”

Bach-Busoni
"2 Orgel-Choralvorspiele"
"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
"Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein"

Piano: Alexandra Papastefanou

Giorgos Koumendakis
"A Cricket in the Blackbird's Gorge" (2012)
for three pianists on a piano
World premiere
Piano: Alexandra Papastefanou, Lorenda Ramou & Giorgos Konstandinou

Credits

  • Piano

    Alexandra Papastefanou, Lorenda Ramou & Giorgos Konstandinou

  • Video installation & performance

    Petros Touloudis

  • Soundscapes

    Tim Ward

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