Ballet Class / Inspired by the works of Edgar Degas
On the occasion of the exhibition "The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas" at the Herakleidon Museum in Athens a piano recital entitled "Ballet Class" was created. [...] To this end, well-known piano works of the romantic period frequently chosen for such purpose, are selected among others. Works by F. Chopin, F. Schuman, E. Satie, C. Debussy.
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Vers une musique dite spectrale
Beginning with Berlioz and Cesar Franck, there is a continuous tradition of western-european music, mainly French, which in contrast to the more reputed central-european one and its emphasis on the note and the symbol, places more importance on materiality, the tangible reality of the sound itself. The spectral use of the octaves, the veils of sound, the nuances, the “en dehors” interpretation of Debussy, with the chords - timbres and chords – resonances of Messiaen, find their logical continuation in a music which places the natural phenomenon of sound in the center of artistic creation – in a radical dispute with the established paradigm, a music which, assisted by science, replaces the work from the field of relations and proportions to the primary level of perception and cognition.
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DÉRIVE 1
This Dérive is a journey to the universe of compositions and timbres for piano: from the deceiving immobility and the apparently intuitive structure of Feldman to the timbre radicalism of Sciarrino or the automated systems and the masterful brilliant virtuosity of Donatoni; from the search for a new “harmony” of the opposites and the dramaturgy of Koumendakis to the monism and post-structuralistic, scientific approach of sound itself by Murail, this project sheds light on one of the most enchanting aspects of contemporary musical creation.
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DÉRIVE 2
If our first Derive led us through a humid scenery, through cities which are literally or metaphorically sinking, our ramble will now take place in seemingly more solid if equally deceptive/fraudulent grounds. It is about a hike in the desert or in a wintery forest in the middle of an abandoned waste country. Still it is not a barren land: Life, wherever it is to be found, claims its rights. The agony unsettling many of these angst ridden landscapes, will be expressed with works bursting with intensity, austere, internal and declamatory whose existence both refutes and confirms Utopias.
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Paris / 1900
Maria Aloupi, piano & Nicholas Isherwood, bass-baritone @ Erik Satie. Program:
Air du poète //
Le Chapelier //
La Statue de Bronze //
Gymnopedies //
Sorcière //
Trois poèmes d'amour //
Daphènèo //
Sports et Divertissements //
Trois Mèlodies Sans Paroles //
Un dinner a L' èlysèe //
Chez le docteur
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John Cage / Early Works for piano
Two pieces for piano 1935 // Seven Haiku (1952) // Metamorphosis (1938) // Waiting (1952) // Ophelia (1945) // For mc and dt (1952) // Two pieces for piano 1946
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Oslo - Paris - Berlin, Edvard Munch
These concerts are organized on the occasion of the major exhibition of engravings “Edvard Munch, Beyond the Scream” hosted by the Herakleidon Museum. The choices of the musical works were made in order to narrate and insinuate a parallel between the main creative phases of the painter, the development of his technique and his course from rural Oslo of the 19th century to Paris and Berlin – both significant metropolitan cities of his time. A journey from Romanticism and the National Nordic School through the work of Edvard Grieg, from Post-impressionism to Symbolism under the compositions of Claude Debussy, from Expressionism by Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg retrospectively, all the way to the bright aspects of his later life.
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The changing faces of classicism - J. Haydn
Capriccio, Hob. XVII: 1 // Sonata in G minor, Hob. XVI: 44 // Fantasia C major, Hob. XVII: 4 // Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI: 23 // Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII: 6 // Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI: 52
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Fables and Legends
Fantasiestueck, op. 12 - R. Schumann // Drei Klavierstuecke (Impromptus), D. 946 - F. Schubert // 6 Bagatteles, op. 126 - L.V. Beethoven // Fantasie - Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. Posth. 66 - F. Chopin // Piano Sonata, D. 571 - Schubert // 3 Intermezzi, op. 117 - Brahms // 2 Legendes, S. 175 - F. Liszt
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