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Sounds of the Chionistra

Songs & Chamber Music by Cilia Petridou

Alison Smart (soprano), Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano), Jennie-Helen Moston (piano), Jessica Burroughs (cello), Richard Russell (clarinet), Lukas Kargl (baritone), Fenella Humphreys (violin), Steven Burnard (viola), Susan Collier (violin), Sarah Down (piano)

Ellerdale Trio

Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: DDA21224
Label: Divine Art
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

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Petridou: The Grocer

Work length2:49

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Alison Smart, Lesley-Jane Rogers, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: Sirens

Work length5:38

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Alison Smart, Lesley-Jane Rogers, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: Kyrenia

Work length5:12

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Alison Smart, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: What Love Is

Work length3:05

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Lesley-Jane Rogers, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: Mirrors

Work length3:35

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Alison Smart, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: Optimism

Work length3:47

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Lesley-Jane Rogers, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: The Siege

Work length23:55

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Alison Smart, Lesley-Jane Rogers, Jennie-Helen Moston

Pt. I

Track length9:32

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Pt. II

Track length2:49

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Pt. III

Track length11:34

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Petridou: Evtho

Work length19:21

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Alison Smart, Lesley-Jane Rogers, Lukas Kargl, Richard Russell, Fenella Humphreys, Jessica Burroughs, Jennie-Helen Moston

Petridou: Piano Quartet, "Memories"

Work length26:15

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Steven Burnard
Ellerdale Trio

I. Youthful Times

Track length9:37

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II. First Loss

Track length7:38

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III. Greek Flag

Track length9:00

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Petridou: String Quartet, "the Collar"

Work length8:08

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Susan Collier
Ellerdale Trio

Petridou: Piano Trio, "Black July 1974"

Work length26:15

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Ellerdale Trio

I. Farewell

Track length11:03

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II. Lament for Famagusta

Track length5:39

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III. Memories 1960

Track length5:28

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IV. Optimism - Sadness

Track length4:05

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Petridou: Crocus on the Chionistra

Work length2:02

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Susan Collier, Sarah Down

Petridou: First Applause

Work length6:04

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Susan Collier, Sarah Down

Petridou: Catch Me of you Can

Work length2:23

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Susan Collier, Sarah Down

Petridou: Into Exile

Work length4:18

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Susan Collier, Sarah Down

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Greek-Cypriot pianist/composer Cilia Petridou was born in Cyprus in 1945. She was taught by her mother from the age of four until the age of nine, when she entered the Greek Lyceum in her native town. She performed her first piano concerto, Mozart's K.488, at the age of eleven in Nicosia, at the Theatre Royal. By the age of fifteen Cilia had been awarded the Mozart Medal, the highest award in the whole of Cyprus. Unfortunately, her playing came to an abrupt end in 2002 after major surgery.

This two CD contains some beautiful and highly accessible music. CD1 is a collection of settings of Greek poetry. “Poetry written in Greek constitutes the longest uninterrupted tradition in the Western World. From Homer to the present day not a single generation of Greeks has lived without expressing its joys and sorrows in verse, and frequently in verse of outstanding originality and beauty. It is Greek poetry which has given the world the various poetic genres in which Western man has expressed his emotions and so many of his thoughts to the present day; and in many of these genres - the epic, the lyric and the dramatic - the achievements of the Greeks have yet to be superseded.” Professor C. A. Trypanis in The Penguin Book of Greek Verse.

CD2 features a collection of pieces for a variety of combinations of chamber musicians, all inspired by the history and natural beauty of Cyprus – among them Mount Olympus – or Chionistra as it is known locally.

Sounds of the Chionistra

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