Apostolos Palios - Margaritis & Petyrek: Piano Music (2009)

Tracklist

01. Etude No. 1
02. Greek Rhapsody
03. Youth, Op. 4: I. Scherzo
04. Youth, Op. 4: II. Sketch
05. Youth, Op. 4: III. Carnival, Letter from Munich
06. Youth, Op. 4: IV. In Tuning, Humoreske
07. Youth, Op. 4: V. Triptych: Morning Twilight
08. Youth, Op. 4: V. Triptych: Intermezzo
09. Youth, Op. 4: V. Triptych: Evening
10. Youth, Op. 4: VI. A Few Drops Orsay
11. Youth, Op. 4: VII. Benedictine
12. Youth, Op. 4: VIII. Lullaby
13. Youth, Op. 4: Piano Sonatina, Op. 5
14. Verses, Op. 10: No. 1, Concert Study, North Wind (Boreas)
15. Verses, Op. 10: No. 2, Ray of Hope
16. Verses, Op. 10: No. 3, Wakening
17. 2 Greek Pastorals, Op. 18: No. 1, —
18. 2 Greek Pastorals, Op. 18: No. 2, —
19. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 1, Athens
20. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 2, Euboea
21. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 3, Complaint
22. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 4, Dance around the Hobb yhorse
23. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 5, Delphian Rhapsody
24. 6 Greek Rhapsodies: No. 6, Serenade of the Robber Band

Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis was a distinguished Greek composer, performer and music-educator. He cultivated a spirit of ‘music-universalism’, reinvestigating the delicate balance between German Romanticism, French Impressionism and Modernism in his multi-layered music. The varied, highly individual pieces on this recording often possess a dreamlike, nostalgic, timeless quality which Schumann or Debussy would have appreciated. An enthusiastic advocate of Margaritis’s music, Felix Petyrek composed many piano works, including the Six Greek Rhapsodies, which use local scales and structural principles.

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