Andrei Tanasescu - Byzantium after Byzantium (2013)

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Title: Byzantium after Byzantium
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 77:30 min
Total Size: 311 MB
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Andrei Tanasescu - Byzantium after Byzantium (2013)

Tracklist:

1. I. Panmelodion: The Soul's Long Journey up to Heaven (Byzantium After Byzantium I)
2. II. Threni: Oh, Golgotha! (Byzantium After Byzantium I)
3. III. Diaphania: The Eternal Movement (Byzantium After Byzantium I)
4. I. Psalm: Lord, stop the passage (Byzantium After Byzantium II)
5. II. Murmur: I know That where there’s no death there's no love (Byzantium After Byzantium II)
6. III. Pastel: Long clouds have passed over the plains (Byzantium After Byzantium II)
7. IV. Epilogue. I kneel in the wind:There's no road That takes you back (Byzantium After Byzantium II)
8. I. Icons from the Past: Unseen Stairs (Byzantium After Byzantium III)
9. II. Curtains of Oblivion: 12 Interrupted Fugitive Variations (Byzantium After Byzantium III)
10. III. The Bells of Return: With Brief Evocations of Anton Pann (Byzantium After Byzantium III)


Theodor Grigoriu (born in Galaţi, Moldavia, in 1926) is one of the major Romanian composers in the period after Enescu. His vast output is little known outside his own country, although it includes oratorios, symphonies, cantatas, chamber music, film-scores and much more. His musical roots reach back to Romanian folk-music and to the modal melodies of ancient Byzantium — as in this large-scale triptych, Byzantium after Byzantium, which consists of a violin concerto, a sonata for solo violin and a sonata for violin and piano. All three works are performed here by Sherban Lupu, the violinist for whom the music was written.

Sherban Lupu, violin
Sinfonia da Camera, orchestra
Ian Hobson, conductor
Andrei Tănăsescu, piano