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Skalkottas - The Land and The Sea of Greece

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Catalogue numberBIS-1564 CD
Release date2006-08-15
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time62:58

Gramophone: outstanding; Music Web International: outstanding.

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 (on BIS-CD-1014) was described as ‘drop-dead gorgeous’ by the reviewer on Classics Today.com, while Four Images and The Sea for orchestra (on BIS-CD-1384), 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.’
 
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  Composer: Skalkottas, Nikos
  The Land and the Sea of Greece / Η γη
και η
θάλασσα
της
Ελλάδας, Ballet
Suite(1948)
21:03
01 I. The Harvest. Moderato 02:39 $ 0.56 USD
02 II. The Sowing. Andante 03:58 $ 0.83 USD
03 III. The Vintage. Allegro 03:10 $ 0.67 USD
04 IV. The Land and Sea of Greece. Molto vivace 03:19 $ 0.70 USD
05 V. The Trawler. Moderato – Andante 03:34 $ 0.75 USD
06 VI. Dance of the Waves. Vivace 04:23 $ 0.92 USD
 
 
  Composer: Skalkottas, Nikos
  Island Images /
Νησιώτικες
εικόνες, Ballet Suite
(1st version / 1η γραφή –
1943)
12:44
07 I. The Trawler. Moderato 02:12 $ 0.46 USD
08 II. Building of Fishing Boat. Vivo 01:58 $ 0.41 USD
09 III. Sea Waves. Andante 02:46 $ 0.58 USD
10 IV. Launching the Fishing Boat 02:38 $ 0.55 USD
11 V. Greek Dance. Allegro moderato 01:01 $ 0.21 USD
12 VI. Sunday in Church – Feast. Andante – Allegro vivace 02:09 $ 0.45 USD
 
 
  Composer: Skalkottas, Nikos
  The Maiden and Death / Η
Λυγερή κι ο
Χάρος (1938), Ballet Suite
19:14
13 I. Moderato maestoso – attacca – 01:33 $ 0.33 USD
14 II. Allegro – attacca – 02:22 $ 0.50 USD
15 III. Andantino – Tempo di Valse (Lento) – Allegro
moderato – Lento – attacca –
05:01 $ 1.05 USD
16 IV. Vivo – attacca – 02:05 $ 0.44 USD
17 V. Allegro – attacca – 01:14 $ 0.26 USD
18 VI. Lentement – attacca – 03:35 $ 0.75 USD
19 VII.Moderato assai; Lento – Allegro moderato – Lento 03:24 $ 0.71 USD
 
20 Procession to Acheron 04:09 $ 0.87 USD
 
  Composer: Skalkottas, Nikos
  Echo / Ηχώ (1942/43?), Little Dance Piece /
Μικρό
χορευτικό
κοµµάτι
21 Echo, Little Dance Piece 03:44 $ 0.78 USD
 
  Album total 62:58
PianoRamou, Lorenda
ComposerSkalkottas, Nikos

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