BIS' vividly titled The Land and the Sea of Greece takes its moniker from an inspired and lively ballet suite by that title dating from 1948; it, Island Images (1943), and The Maiden and Death (1938) constitutes all of the ballet music Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas produced for solo piano. It is played by a young Greek virtuoso, Lorenda Ramou, ...
This SACD's substantial program illustrates the techniques and styles Nikolaos Skalkottas explored in his last 12 years, and reveals him to be much more than just another dutiful disciple of Schoenberg. Connected groups of twelve-tone rows are employed in both the Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (1937) and the Tema con variazioni (1949), ...
Greek composer Nikolaos Skalkottas was one of Arnold Schoenberg's best European students, and his approach to serial technique represented an ideal in the realization of Schoenberg's twelve-tone system as Schoenberg himself viewed it. BIS' Skalkottas: 16 Melodies, Piano Pieces introduces a major vocal Skalkottas vocal cycle, 16 Melodies (1941) and ...
The Hong Kong-based Naxos label has been showing that there's nothing wrong with the classical music scene that innovative releases featuring unusual repertory can't cure. This disc seems to inaugurate a new series with its "Greek Classics" title. The combination of Greek origin and saxophone-and-orchestra instrumentation might seem impossibly ...
Outside of Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and Hanns Eisler, Arnold Schoenberg's most gifted European pupil was probably Greek composer Nikolaos Skalkottas. The Swedish label BIS has devoted at least 13 discs to his neglected output, and the main work featured here is the first recording of a monument of early serial composition, Skalkottas' Piano ...
BIS' investigation of Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas' oeuvre is getting into his latest and least-known concerted repertoire with its Skalkottas: Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra (1945). It features violinists Georgios Demertzis and Simos Papanas with Vassilis Christopoulos and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in the concerto; the ...
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