related works

Theophanes the Greek : for narrator, soprano, mixed choir and large ensemble / Savvas Karantzias

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr GK perc pf str

Knockin' around town : (20th century heartbeat), for percussion, accordion and guitar, 1987, revision 1991 / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: perc acc g

Passage à 3 : for violin, accordion and piano / Frédéric Devreese

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: vn acc pf

Meditation (In Time of War) : Version for bassoon and harp / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fg hp

composition

In Memory of Giya : for violin, viola and cello / Savvas Karantzias

Author(s):
Karantzias, Savvas (Composer)
Description:
From the world premiere presentation at the Festival European Polyphony (Greece):
A tribute to the life and work of Georgia's leading composer and one of the most distinguished in the Soviet Union, but also in the world, in the late 20th century. In this particular work I try to combine the calm and the beauty that I receive through the music of Giya, with the latent violence, which occasionally explodes with a catastrophic expressive effect. Something that occupied him, but also that
is reflected in his works. An emotion I felt when his death was announced. As his colleague Rodion Shchedrin said, he described him as "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist - a restrained Vesuvius". The main musical idea of the project is based on the encryption of the name of G-I-Y-A and develops between harmony and Aeolian Missa.
Savvas Karantzias