Heartfelt Music from Greece and Turkey
For Violin and Piano
Nikos Mandilas, violin
Popi Malapani, piano
Nikos Mandilas, first violin in the Athens State Orchestra and pianist Popi Malapani propose a surprising program of much loved Greek composers of the ‘30s to be followed by music written by a Turkish composer of our days. We will hear European and Mediterranean melodies in a new and impressive style in an unexpectedly common language and in common expressive means of sound and imagination. Violin partita no 3 is a transcription by D.Mitropoulos of the original Bach partita, as it was later edited by musicolologist, Yannis Sabrovalakis. Its performance by N. Mandilas and P. Malapani is the first one after 90 long years! Say’s sonata for violin and piano was commissioned by the Arizona “Friends of Chamber Music” in 1997 and was premiered by the composer on the piano and Patricia Kopatchinskaya on the violin.
Program
- J.S. Bach/ DimitrisMitropoulos
Partita no 3 for violin and piano BWV 1006
1. Prelude, Allegro
2. Loure
3. Gavotte (Rondeau)
4. Menuet 1
5. Menuet 2
6. Bourrèe
7. Gigue
- Yannis Konstantinidis
Dodecanese suite for violin and piano /Δωδεκανησιακή σουίτα για βιολί και πιάνο.
1. ANDANTE LENTO
2. ALLEGRETTO SCHERZANDO
3. CON MOTO E QUASI PARLANDO
4. L’ ISTESSO TEMPO
5. ANDANTE MESTO
6. ANDANTE LENTO, ALLEGRO VIVO MA NON TROPPO
- Nikos Skalkotas
Three Greek Folk Songs
1. The River
2. Olympus and Kissavos Mountains
3. Sleep my daughter!
- Fasil Say
Sonata for violin and piano
1. “Melancholy…” Andante Mysterioso
2. “Grotesque…” Moderato Scherzando
3. “Perpetuum Mobile…” Presto
4. “Anonymous…” Andante
5. “Melancholy…(Da Capo)” Andante Mysterioso