TRAVELLING EAST OF EUROPE

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Πρόγραμμα | Programme

Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky:  Απογοήτευση (Disillusionment), Δεν ήμουν και εγώ σαν αγνό χορτάρι (Wasn’t I a Blade of Grass in the Field), Τι κι’ αν;  (So What Can I Say?), Σερενάτα του Δον Χουάν (Don Juan’s Serenade)

Pancho Vladigerov:  Το δάσος στριφογύριζε (The Forest was Winding), Μπιλιάνα, το λευκασμένο πανί (Bilyana Bleached Cloth)

Κωνσταντίνος Στυλιανού (Constantinos Stylianou):  Τα όνειρα του Άδωνη (Adonis’ dreams), Η απουσία του Άδωνη (Adonis’ Absence), Ιφιγένεια εν αμύνει (Iphigenia in Defense), Άσε με να σου φυλάξω (Let me Play you the Tune). Πρελούδια για πιάνο, τεύχος Α’, αρ. 1, 3, 5, 7, 12  (Preludes for piano, Series I, nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 12)

Antonín Dvořák:  Τσιγγάνικες μελωδίες, έργο 55 (Gypsy Songs, Op. 55)

LMS invites you to an art-song and piano recital with the renowned Cypriot artists Marios Andreou (voice) and Nicolas Costantinou (piano). A musical excursion that begins from faraway Russia and four songs by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Subsequently, our journey takes us to Bulgaria and to Pancho Vladigerov, whose compositions combine the idiom of folk music with that of the western classical style. Thenceforth, we descend to Cyprus, the southern tip of Europe, and to the music of Constantinos Stylianou, first, four of his songs written to poetry by Dina Katsouri and Vassilis Koumis, and subsequently, five of his preludes for solo piano inspired by the statue, The Victory of Samothrace, by Paul Cézanne’s painting, L’Étang des sœurs, by Robert Campin’s painting “The Weeping Angel”, from the Seilern Triptych, by Alberto Giacometti’s statuette The Walking Man and by Paula Rego’s painting The Dance. Our musical outing ends in the heart of Europe, with Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s celebrated song cycle Gypsy Melodies, which portrays the life and culture of this nomadic tribe, so familiar in the Balkan region in general.