related works

Lasting Sounds From a Deep Sea : for piano / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Cantus cantus : 14 Stücke für Mezzosopran, Akkordeon, Bratsche, Tenorsaxophon und Schlagzeug, 1983 / Text: Ovid (Iphis) und Kaváfis (Gedichte), Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m sax-t perc acc vla

Makbeth : for narrator and ensemble / Klaas ten Holt; text by Erik Bindervoet and Robbert-Jan Henkes

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: stem fl/picc fg trp cemb perc vn

4 Lieder : für Singstimme und Streichorchester / Franz Schubert; arrangement by Marijn Simons

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: zang 2vl vla vc db

composition

Melos hidiston : for voice, tenor recorder, viola, cello, double bass and piano, 1991 / Calliope Tsoupaki

Other authors:
Tsoupaki, Calliope (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Melos hidiston, as the title implies, is a piece based on two fragments from the Song of Songs, a love poem included in the Old Testament ascribed to Solomon. I use the text as it is in the first Greek translation of the O: the Greek letter for the numer 70. The title consits of the two words: melos that is a general word for melody, and hidiston, an adjective that means sweetest. So the literal translation of the title is melody sweetest. According to that the text is mostly set on melismatic melodies that are as well the most used musical element in the piece. - CALLIOPE TSOUPAKI