...between...
Genre : Classical
Catalogue: Phasma-Music 057
UPC: 731093480386
recording: Kostas Kontos
editing and mastering: Kostas Kontos
recording place: The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
text: Christos Samaras
text translation from Greek to English: Magdalini Sarafianou
graphic design: Michail Travlos
production management: Iwona Glinka
front cover: Anna-Maria Samara’s painting
premiere: May 5, 2023.
Christos Samaras composer
Maria Asteriadou piano
The extraordinary album ...between... is third album in a series dedicated to the one of Greece’s leading composer, Christos Samaras.
This album includes four works. The “Thirteen Full Moons for Absence” is a modular work consisting of small sections, with arrayed forms which develop based on repetition as well as the readjustment of similar intervals that perpetually move within the palette of tonal space. Diffused sound colors are lost within each other creating a world of colorful instability, and, at the same time, expressing a bewildering motionless moment. The "Five Remorses and a Sea" reflects musical references of mental situations under conditions of pressure, sorrow, tension, conflict, but at the same time hope and nostalgia. One might say that the musical ‘mosaic’ technique depicts the whole way of life that results in the dream, the Aegean archipelago! Remorse is registered in memory as an ‘anti-credo’ of what is deemed necessary, a game between the real and the dream world. "Quasi una Sonata" is characterized an Eleusinian ritual, where the directions of the movements also symbolize the torques of the soul toward light or darkness. The sonic events, with pulse and inconceivable force, carry us into a higher resonance of initiation into arcane life, where the constant purification of the soul through sound symbolically begins to refine and redeem us from everyday passions. "Sonata" is a three-part work which highlights images and colors in a virtuoso manner and touches situations of an imaginary landscape. A sonic world is created with soundscapes and emotional depictions in the dimension of imaginary realism.
Product details
Works for piano I
01. FIVE REMORSES AND A SEA op. 24 [06:07]
02. THIRTEEN FULL MOONS FOR ABSENCE [11:38]
03. QUASI UNA SONATA I [07:13]
04. QUASI UNA SONATA II Intermezzo [03:35]
05. SONATA: I [10:29]
06. SONATA: II [03:36 ]
07. SONATA: III [07:08]
Total time: [50:03]
