These are the first performances with the music of Yiannis Markopoulos that are staged following his death. The musical performances will be shown at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on Saturday, March 23 and at the Athens Concert Hall on Wednesday, March 27. The soloists of the work are Marios Fragoulis, Tasos Apostolou and Haris Andrianos, and the narrator is Maria Kavogianni.
Giannis Markopoulos worked on the composition of the work “The Free Besieged” in the form of a Popular Liturgy for more than 14 years, organizing the libretto from the poem of the same name by our national poet Dionysios Solomos and choosing from all the designs of the poem, the prose, the lyrics and the narrative parts.
“Free Besiegers” by Yannis Markopoulos
“The Free Besiegers”, a work in the form of a People’s Liturgy for symphony orchestra, mixed choir, lyric singers (tenor, baritone, basso-baritone) and narrator, is considered one of the masterpieces of modern Greek music. The “Free Besieged” are perhaps the crown of his musical works and summarize for him the apotheosis of the Greek soul through the struggle of the Greeks for their liberation.
Starting in the 60s, the composer completed the work almost a decade later. As the composer himself notes a few years ago, “I worked on it for a long time, on the three Sketches of the poem”. In 1975 he gave the final form to the work, the form of the Popular Liturgy, which he presented to the public for the first time in 1975 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, invited by the late professor Linos Politis, perhaps the most important scholar of Solomon and curator of the edition of the manuscripts of the poet in two volumes.
The “Free Besiegers” were released on a disc in 1977, with performers Nikos Xylouris, Laki Chalkias, Ilias Klonaridis and actress Irini Papas as narrator. The amateur mixed choir of Preveza, taught by Giorgos Kakitsis, and an orchestra of 16 instruments, including Greek instruments, participated.
The first concert with the “Free Besiegers” was given at the Panathinaikos stadium in the summer of 1978, where Markopoulos conducted his work, in front of an audience of twenty-two thousand people, who flooded the stands of the stadium and enthusiastically welcomed both the new musical project as well as the entry of Solomon’s poetry into modern Greek music creation.
REPRESENTATIONS
at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on March 23 and
at the Athens Concert Hall on March 27
COEFFICIENTS
Soloist: Marios Fragoulis, Tasos Apostolou, Haris Andrianos
and narrator Maria Kavogianni.
He conducts the symphony orchestra of the municipality of Thessaloniki
Anastasios Symeonides. The mixed choir of Thessaloniki participates
and the choir of the municipality of Athens.
THE PARTS OF THE PROJECT
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOW
Anna IotiPURE ART ANNA YOTI MON.IKE
Address: 7 Hefaistionos, Thrakomakedones 13676
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 2102208975
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