Greek Songs
composer: Christian Jost
text writer: Kiki Dimoula
German edition: Anny Koltsidopoúlou
translator preface (English): Lindsay Chalmers-Gerbracht
translator preface (French): Christopher Hyde
on two poems by Kiki Dimoula
Commissioned work: Komponiert im Auftrag der griechischen Kulturstiftung Berlin
Premiere: November 26, 2000 Berlin (D) · Stella Doufexis, Mezzosopran; New Hellenic String Quartet
Instrumentation: voice and string quartet
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 12' 0''
Year of composition: 2000
Difficulty: advanced
Edition: score and parts
Language: Greek
50 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-14380-6
Order number: ED 9975
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Jost has set to music 'Melancholy' and 'Afternoon', two tender poems by Kiki Dimoula, the most important contemporary Greek lyricist. Combining the human voice with the sound of a string quartet, he treats the mezzo-soprano like an expressive musical instrument which is not just accompanied by the string quartet.
Although each of the songs has its own sound image, a connecting passage, a fluid transition of the string quartet, is like a great arc over the entire work. Differentiated dynamics follow the text context; sound and character capture the atmosphere of a summer afternoon in Greece.
In our edition, the music is preceded by the Greek original texts including translation; in the score, Latin letters are written underneath the original text.
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