BETA
Genre : Classical
Catalogue: Phasma-Music 098
UPC: 731093480799
production management: Iwona Glinka
front cover and graphic design: Michail Travlos
recording: Alexandros Kakaroumpas
mastering: Alexandros Kakaroumpas
recorded in March, 2025
recording place: Krama Recording Studio in Patras, Greece
and Municipal Conservatory in Patras, Greece
Many thanks to the Municipality of Patras - Deputy Mayor's Office for Culture
With the support of
Iwona Glinka, flute (tracks 01, 13-18 )
Yiannis Samprovalakis, clarinet (tracks 04, 06, 20)
Panagiotis Kostogiannis, alto saxophone (track 19)
Ioannis Mavridis, violin I (tracks 03, 06, 10-12)
Nikolai Komissarov, cello (tracks 02, 04, 06, 13)
Andreas Zafeiropoulos, piano (tracks 04, 13)
Nina Metaxa, piano (tracks 03, 05, 07-12, 14-19)
Iakovos Konitopoulos, conductor (tracks 04, 06, 13 )
A noteworthy album ΒΕΤΑ of outstanding artists includes 13 compositions by 10 contemporary Greek composers, which are recorded for the first time (world premiere recordings.
The Greek composers: Andreas Argyrou, Nikos Athanassakis, Aris Carastathis, George Chlitsios, Maria Dagalaki, Thanos Gkatzios, Alexandros Georgiadis, Maria Lazaridou, Athina Pavlaki-Pirouniaand Yiola Voutsina-Papagiannidi in the interior of the Greek domain are influenced by the prevailing trend, which promoted the idea of Greek music creation, resulting in the standard development of selective conduct and properties in which national elements co-exist, mingled with impressionistic, expressionistic, neoclassic, twelve-tone and other European techniques as well as elements mostly correlated to the rest of the national schools of eastern Europe (modal characteristics, oriental scales, etc.).
Product details:
Andreas Argyrou
01. Variations for solo flute
Nikos Athanassakis
02. Stealing Gods’ Fire (Prelude for Promitheus) for solo cello
Aris Carastathis
03. Strata for violin and piano
04. Vertexes for clarinet, cello and piano
George Chlitsios
05. Opus Brevis for solo piano
Maria Dagalaki
06. War & Peace for clarinet, violin and cello
Thanos Gkatzios
07. Theme and Variations for violin and piano
Alexandros Georgiadis
Two Preludes for solo piano
08. Preludes no. 1
09. Preludes no. 2
Three Little Pieces for violin and piano
10. I.
11. II.
12. III.
Maria Lazaridou
13. 22. 55. 64. II for flute, cello and piano
Athina Pavlaki-Pirounia
Five diadromes for flute and piano
14. I.
15. II.
16. III.
17. IV.
18. V.
Yiola Voutsina-Papagiannidi
19. To Lost Innocence for alto saxophone and piano
20. The March of the Homeless for solo clarinet
Total time: [78:18]
