Nikos Skalkottas: Ballettmusik für Klavier
Ballettmusik für Klavier
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- The Land & The Sea of Greece; Island Images; The Maiden & Death; Procession to Acheron; Echo
- Künstler: Lorenda Ramou, Klavier
- Label: BIS, DDD, 2005
- Bestellnummer: 9414905
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.8.2006
This unique programme consists of ballet music by Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) written for the piano and, in some cases, later orchestrated by the composer. Pianist Lorenda Ramou, making her first disc for BIS, has together with the musicologist Yiannis Samprovalakis searched the archives and private sources for these scores which were written in close collaboration with a number of choreographers in Athens during the last ten years of Skalkottas’s life. This is the 16th title dedicated to the music of Skalkottas in the BIS catalogue, a pioneering recording project which has received high praise from the critics, especially for bringing out the various facets of this composer who worked within both tonal and serial traditions. The orchestra version of The Maiden and Death was described as ‘drop-dead gorgeous’ by the reviewer on Classics Today. com, while Four Images and The Sea for orchestra, which together incorporate the movements of The Land and the Sea of Greece, are ‘clearly descriptive’ and ‘brilliantly orchestrated’ – here, then, is an opportunity to hear the works in their original piano versions, while expanding one’s knowledge about a composer about whom a reviewer in Fanfare has written: ‘Skalkottas may have an individual voice, but he speaks a universal language, and his discovery is a cause of rejoicing.’
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
The land and the sea of Greece (Ballett-Suite)
- 1 1. The harvest: Moderato
- 2 2. The sowing: Andante
- 3 3. The vintage: Allegro
- 4 4. The grape stomping: Molto vivace
- 5 5. The trawler: Andante
- 6 6. Dance of the waves: Vivace
Island images (Ballett-Suite)
- 7 1. The trawler: Moderato
- 8 2. Building of fishing boat: Vivo
- 9 3. Sea waves: Andante
- 10 4. Launching the fishing boat
- 11 5. Greek dance
- 12 6. Sunday in church: Andante - Feast: Allegro vivace
The maiden and death (Ballett-Suite)
- 13 1. Moderato maestoso -
- 14 2. Allegro -
- 15 3. Andantino - Tempo di valse - Allegro moderato - Lento -
- 16 4. Vivo -
- 17 5. Allegro -
- 18 6. Lentement -
- 19 7. Moderato assai, lento - Allegro moderato - Lento
- 20 Procession to Acheron
- 21 Echo (Little dance piece)
