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English Language : Classical Music : News : Spring 2003 
Tuesday 11 March 2003 : Nikos Papadimitriou's personal idiom in composition |
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Experiences From the same optical disc - also for violin, clarinet and piano ** - the "Trio" (1995) of Nikos Papadimitriou (b. 1953) - lasts about 12 minutes. It is about a work which, from its beginning is really presenting tendencies for introspection, reverie and great fantasy power. The "spiritual" scenes of the work are constantly changing reminding us of the continuously being transmuted dreams that all of us are experiencing in the night - those that just when we attempt to ... live them a bit more vividly - to ... touch them, then, they are all gone in ... smokes till something else comes after them - the roles of the instruments in all this try are formidable and no one is ... being a burden to the others. *** The most impressive is the fact that this work lasts enough and ... nowhere, I mean nowhere, but nowhere! there is no sign of "weariness" ! It continuously has the same amount of interest and it is ceaselessly keeping you in alert, each time with slightly different ideas and emotions, while, you are having the subconscious feeling that the basic idea is always the same and the same. In fact, it is about a voyage to the unforeseen (an expression of the actual disc's text). It is yet another fantastic Greek composition! I am once more impressed from Greek music! **** ** Performance again from "Trio Korypho" ensemble.  *** An existing difficulty of each chamber music orchestration attempt : do not ever degrade any instrument ! This always reminds me of Haydn's variations on the melody of the (later!) Austrian national anthem : the theme is moving from one quartet string to another in a most masterly way ! (that case is described in Samuel Adler's book : The Study of Orchestration - it's about the "Imperial Quartet" opus 76 no. 3 of Haydn) **** All those works are actually deserving of a better promotion! We are talking about a gap that is waiting to be covered up by all of us ! *** |
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