Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

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A beguiling concert by an all-star group performing some of Karaindrou's film and theatre-inspired scores, recorded with characteristic ECM warmth and clarity. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: 4764984
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 54 minutes

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Karaindrou: Requiem For Willy Loman

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Eternity and a Day

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano)
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

3. Eternity Theme

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Karaindrou: Closed Roads

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Kim Kashkashian (viola)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Waiting

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Maria Bildea (harp), Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion)
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Voyage To Cythera

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Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Voyage

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Karaindrou: Invocation

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Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Tango Of Love

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Sergiu Nastasa (violin), Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Tom's Theme

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Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Laura's Waltz

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Kim Kashkashian (viola), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion), Aris Dimitriadis (mandolin)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Adagio

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Kim Kashkashian (viola), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: After Memory

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Kim Kashkashian (viola), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe)
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: The Beekeeper

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Farewell Theme

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Karaindrou: Seeking Theme

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Stella Gadedi (flute), Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Sonia Pisk (bassoon), Vangelis Skouras (french horn), Socratis Anthis (trumpet)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Nostalgia Song

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion), Stella Gadedi (flute), Aris Dimitriadis (mandolin), Maria Bildea (harp)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Waltz Of The Rain

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Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion), Stella Gadedi (flute), Aris Dimitriadis (mandolin), Maria Bildea (harp), Sergiu Nastasa (violin)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Adagio for Saxophone

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Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Karaindrou: Ulysses' Gaze / 10. Ulysses' Gaze - Woman's Theme / Ulysses' Theme / Lento / Largo / Dance

Work length3:54

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Kim Kashkashian (viola), Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe), Vangelis Skouras (french horn), Dinos Hadjiiordanou (accordion)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

Dance

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Karaindrou: Requiem For Willy Loman, Var.

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Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone)
Camerata, Friends Of Music Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: 2010-11
Recording Venue: Megaron (Hall Of The Friends Of Music), Athens

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A beautiful and exceptional live recording, Concert in Athens, is the tenth ECM release by Greek composer of music for stage and screen, Eleni Karaindrou. With Eleni herself on piano and the Camerata Friends of Music Orchestra, it incorporates moving performances by guests Kim Kashkashian and Jan Garbarek.

The US violist and the Norwegian saxophonist have each made important contributions to Karaindrou’s music in the past, Garbarek with his playing on the film-score for The Beekeeper (recorded on Music for Films, 8476092) and Kashkashian as the key musical protagonist of Ulysses’ Gaze (4491532). Themes from both those films are revisited on this album, amongst much that is new.

A primary emphasis is music written for theatre: the wide-reaching emotional scope of pieces for plays by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee provides a wonderful context for bringing the guest musicians into contact with Eleni’s soloists, above all the brilliant oboist Vangelis Christopoulos. Recorded November 2010, with Manfred Eicher as producer, Concert in Athens gives perhaps the fullest picture of Eleni Karaindrou’s outstanding compositional creativity to date.

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May 2013

A beguiling concert by an all-star group performing some of Karaindrou's film and theatre-inspired scores, recorded with characteristic ECM warmth and clarity.

27th May 2013

There is no doubt about it; Eleni Karaindrou writes very good film/theatre music....We all need a bit of light music from time to time, and this is a high quality spot to get your fix. If you like your André Rieu and fancy exploring a little further afield then this if a fine place to go.

30th March 2013

Themes from the films of Theo Angelopoulos are interleaved with music for Greek productions of plays by Williams, Miller and Albee, but while the orchestrations big-up the original scores, lushness is not what the spare, tense themes of Karaindrou are most treasured for.

16th February 2013

Greece’s finest film and theatre composer also has some useful friends. Fabulous solos from saxophonist Jan Garbarek, viola player Kim Kashkashian and oboist Vangelis Christopoulos grace this concert of Eleni Karaindrou’s beguilingly atmospheric music. I like it best when it is mistily melancholic

9th March 2013

There are marvellous things here. Karaindrou’s style is generally understated and subtle. Colours are muted, tempi tend to be restrained. Yet this music always moves, seems to be going somewhere and has something definite to say – there’s a welcome lack of ambient, moody blandness.

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