Terzis / Xarchakos / Gogo / Romiosini / Kriteos - Best of Greece - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With his characteristic wit and quirkiness, Grammy-nominated Danish composer Poul Ruders has summed up his mission as a composer as being InchTo entertain, to enrich, and to disturb, not necessarily in that order.Inch Born in Ringsted, Denmark in 1949, Ruders achieved international fame with his opera The Handmaid's Tale (1996-98), a work whose aching tenderness, grotesque irony, despair and timeliness has established a permanent place in the repertoire. Ruders' own intuitive development as a composer has enabled him to create works which manage to be strikingly modern, yet avoiding any the clichés of European modernism, but above all, imbued with the power to speak to the emotions of an audience. The current program features works spanning 30 years, beginning with the elliptical Throne (1989) for clarinet and piano and two major chamber works, the Clarinet Quintetand Piano Quartet, dating from 2014 and 2016 respectively. The Rudersdal Chamber Players, founded in 2017 by violinist Christine Pryn, are the ideal interpreters for Ruders stylistically fluid scores, finding the classical InchrootsInch in works like the Clarinet Quintet (beautifully performed by Jonas Frølund, one of the most talented clarinet players of his generation in the world today) as well as the surprising intimacy of the Piano Quartet.

When we use the terms InchGreek traditional,Inch InchGrek folk,Inch or InchGreek demoticInch music today, we mean songs and tunes coming from the past, from areas that were home to Christian farmers, shepherds and sailors during the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. Mostly- though not exclusively- Greek speaking, these populations lived, as was normal then, in close proximity with other ethnic, linguistic, or religious groups. In these areas, some of which now form modern-day Greece, the oral tradition of folk song and ecclesiastical music were the only available forms of musical expression. This album is the highly anticipated re- of the 1980 album of the same name, extended with tracks licensed from the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association. Domna Samiou (1928-2012) was a charismatic and multifaceted personality who dedicated her life to a quest which is now synonymous with her name the preservation, dissemination and teaching of Greek traditional InchfolkInch music. Album Tracks 1. When I Was a Lad = ?T? '?a? Pa? 2. Synkathistós = S?A?St? 3. May = ? 4. Karsilamás = ?A?S?Aµ? 5. I'll Jump from the Railings = K?E?A ?A P?S? 6. Why Did I Go and Fall for You = T? '?E?A ?A? S'a?Ap?Sa 7. Hasaposérvikos = ?Asap?S?ß? 8. Tsámikos = ?S??? 9. My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far from Home = ?E?Teµ? ?? P? 10. Solo Floyéra = S? F?A 11. I'll Be the Basil By Your Window = ?As? ?A ? 12. Let My Eyes Go See = ? Pa ?A D? Ta ??T?A ?? 13. Samarína = Saµa?A 14. Koursárikos = ?S? 15. The Brave Man = ? A?T?E??? 16. Kondiliés = ?T? 17. Solo Violin = S? ß? 18. Kavodorítikos = ?Aß?T?T? 19. My Love Is to Wed = ? A?P? ?? Pa?T?E?Eta? 20. My Heartless Love = ?A? de ?e ?P?Sa? 21. Exile Is the Greatest Hardship = O ??Seµ? E?A? ?A??? 22. Melitzaniá = ?E?T?A? 23. Our Tráta All Tattered = ? T?Ta ?a? ? ?E? 24. Four and Four = ?Sse?A Tsa? T?Sse?A 25. Yiar

Album Tracks 1. Moderato 2. Thema Con Variazioni 3. Allegretto 4. Allegro Con Brio 5. Epithalam Zu Eduard Remenyi's Vermahlungsfeier, S129/R466 6. Die Drei Zigeuner, S383/R469 7. Elegie No. 1, S130/R471C 8. Elegie No. 2, S131/R472 9. Valse-Impromptu, S213/R36 10. Grand Duo Concertant on Lafont's Le Marin, S128/R462