related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Nader tot U : bariton, fluit, piano, slagwerk, 1977 / muziek: Rob Goorhuis, text [sic]: Gerard Reve

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: bar fl perc pf

Inferno : soprano, 2 violini, violoncello, cembalo / [testo] (Dante), Rob du Bois

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr cemb 2vl vc

Wesendonck Lieder : für Altstimme und Ensemble / Richard Wagner; bearbeitet von Willem Stoppelenburg. text Mathilde Wesendonck

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: alt ob h vn vla vc pf

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