Alkis Baltas: Intimate Dialogues

ALEA III, Spyros Gikontis (violin), Eleni Petridou (violin), Costas Anastassopoulos (violin), Vicky Stylianou (piano), dissonArt

Theodore Antoniou, Nikos Athineos

This album includes five works. In sophisticated "Suite" for piano, newer techniques, such as 12-tone elements and clusters, are combined with some traditional forms, such as those of canon and fugato. For the composition "Vision" extracts of melodies of Hildegard von Bingen were used, which composer processed in the computer in such a way to not be identified, and he mixed them with sounds of the wind, waves, and others. The sources of inspiration of the pieces of music which constitute the work "Greek Dialogues" are five very well-known dialogues which are connected inherently with Greek history and civilization. The work "Echoes", with the subtitle of the work "Memories from Our Folk Music", explains the intention of the composer not to create a composition with folklore character, but a modern work with distant rhythmic and melodic references to Greek folk music. These references are so short and fleeting that sometimes they are barely acknowledged.

Baltas: Greek Dialogues
Baltas: Vision
Baltas: The Unknown Island
Baltas: Suite
Baltas: Echoes