Three works, composed during by George Dousis over the course of a decade, capture the ongoing musical dialogue between a 21st century Greek composer and classical forms.
Five Moments for Solo Piano and Pencil Sketches for Solo Piano were composed earlier in the aforementioned decade, while Three Portraits for violin and piano is a more recent work. All three compositions are technically demanding of their performers.
The contributions of Dimitra Mantzouratou and Dimitri Semsis were invaluable to the recording of this album- their experience and technical prowess allowed them to accurately realize the composer’s vison and to bring out the innermost details of the works, giving the listener a visceral experience of a living example of modern Greek composition.
Five Moments for Solo Piano (2008)
1. Choral
2. Episode
3. Passacaglia
4. Danza
5. Exodus
Pencil Sketches for Solo Piano (2009)
6. Waving
7. Beetle in the jar
8. Inside the old machinery 1
9. The Sad doll
10. Escaping trip
11. Inside the old machinery 2
12. Lilliput Dance
Three Portraits for Violin and Piano (2019)
13. Hommage to D.D
14. Loving Gustav
15. Everlasting Ec(h)o
Dimitra Mantzouratou- Piano
Dimitri Semsis – Violin
