Wonderful mezzo soprano, Lotte Bets-dean and virtuoso quitarist, Dimitris Soukaras return on Paxos Festival stage this summer to offer us some of their favorite songs that have been escorting their and our special life moments, regardless of music genre. We aim to unlock the memories door for our audience blurring the temporary borders of “here” and “now”.

The two acclaimed artists have formulated a program inspired by this moment during someone’s sleep, when one finds oneself between sleep and awakening; they are proposing a “diary of dreams” full of songs, that create personal questions, like “what are your thoughts before you fall asleep?” “What is the first thing on your mind, when you wake up”, “what does dreaming mean for you?”
Join us in a dreamy music world on a lovely summer night in our Loggos venue by the sea!

Program
Benjamin Britten – ‘Second Lute Song of the Earl of Essex: Happy were he’ from Gloriana
Burt Bacharach arr Girling – A House is not a Home
Paurillo Barroso arr Almeida – Para Ninar
Manuel De Falla – ‘Nana’, ‘Asturiana’, ‘Cancion’ from Siete cançiones populares españolas
Sinead O’Connor arr. Soukaras – Jackie
Maurice Ravel arr Soukaras – 5 Melodies populaires grecques No 1 and 4 (sung in Greek)
Matyas Seiber – ‘Reveillez-toi’ from 4 French Folk Songs
Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond) arr. Soukaras- Have you ever seen an angel
Jorge Cardoso Milonga
Carlo Domeniconi trans. Soukaras – Uzun ince Bir Yoldayim
Claude Debussy arr Hoppstock – ‘Romance: L’ame evaporée et souffrante’ and ‘Les Angelus’
Vicente Asencio – ‘La Calma’ from Collectici Intim
Baden Powell – Canto de Ossanha
Rogers and Hart arr. Soukaras – Blue Moon