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February 25, 2012
Press ReleaseEMI
Classics presents the double CD with 6 musical compositions by Thanassis Moraitis under the title Pictures for the sadness of the blond girls
and of Eleni.
The recordings were realized
with the kind support of THE J. F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION
The publication is accompanied
by a booklet in English and the cover painting is a work of Spyros Vassiliou.
The CD will be released in the
countries: Germany / Austria
/ Switzerland / Japan / Taiwan
/ Korea / Turkey / Greece.
Date of circulation in Greece and in
the abroad of international publication was fixed 27 February 2012.
.... The composer presents to us six contemporary
musical works of symphonic structure interpreted by leading performers of the
Greek music scene [Megaron Orchestra, Camerata of the Friends of Music (in 2 works)
conducted by Alexandros Myrat / Sonia Theodoridou, soprano / Dimitris Kotronakis, guitar / Vangelis Christopoulos, oboe / Renato Ripo, violoncello / New Hellenic Quartet / Ourania
Lampropoulou, dulciner / Sophia
Lampropoulou, quanun].
.... By different structure and form each of his works,
with particular “unions” of traditional and symphonic instruments (Stories of grandma sea and Fajum),
with unforeseen harmonious assonances that well out of the interval structure
of musical scales of the traditional and Byzantine music, the “maqam” of
Rebetiko and the popular songs of Greece and the modern European harmony (String Quartet
and Elegy for solo violoncello).
With main concern that the instrumentation and the melodic lines of each
musical instrument contribute to the rendering of the style of the poetic speech
(of the “Karyotakismus” in the Cycle songs on poems by Greek poet Kostas Karyotakis). With
complicated polyphony in the writing of solo instruments and with rhythmic subdivisions of the “limp” rhythms of the traditional Balkan music (5/8, 8/8, 11/8 etc), so that the intention for “bacchanal” culmination
in the composition (Amsterdam Concerto) is conveyed. And with all these to coexist, having as permanent denominator the "melody".
