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Cyclamens
 

OVERALL PRESENTATION IN BRIEF

This work is dedicated to the memory of Manos Hatzidakis : a very large figure of modern Greek music who died in 15th of June, 1994. His favorite orchestrations often included a harpsichord and a harp and he often preferred some versatile but also rather dark and melancholic colors painted in most of them. Manos Hatzidakis dealt with both folk and classical music with the same level of high success. His absence in the quality of Greek music landscape will take years to compensate, if ever.

Cyclamens is - rather a play on words actually - written in such a way that a nice-sounding, well-established single melody is successively played by a number of either solo instruments or orchestral ensembles with a number of interesting interstitial passages interchanged with it. Each two of the successive interstitial passages are played by the same instrument group and then the latter one is repeated by the next group one more time. This cycle is beginning with the piano, then going on with a string quartet, then with a woodwind ensemble, a harpsichord comes after, a brass ensemble comes later, then a harp is rather breaking the cycle of the interstitial passages with a concluding idea, and eventually, the piano is going on with the completion of the whole circle leading to a rather standard motif repeated a couple of times in a final climax, thus concluding in a quiet and peaceful "tutti" end.

WORK MATERIAL

"Cyclamens" - written in 2005 - for orchestra with a piano - lasts almost 5 minutes.

Cyclamens_by_John_Tzinieris.mp3   (size of 4.620 Kbytes - 128 kbps - standard mp3 format).

Cyclamens_by_John_Tzinieris_32kbps.mp3   (size of 1.155 Kbytes - 32 kbps - also standard mp3 format - is ideal for "on-line listening" since the bandwidth of a dial-up internet connection is just appropriate).

APPENDIX : EQUIPMENT - RECORDING

Sound sources used : synthesizer Alesis QS8 [mix mode], software sampler GigaStudio 3, software module Synful Orchestra [Cakewalk dx instrument]
Physical instrument sound quality : excellent
Physical instrument expression : excellent
Mixer used : Phonic MM 1002
Recorder used : PC sound card Waveterminal 192X
Reproduction fidelity required : excellent

Thank you beforehands for your listening! (and for having read all of the preceding text!)

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