From Berlin To Athens: Piano Works By Nikos Skalkottas / Ramou

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BIS
Release Date
June 7, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SKALKOTTAS, NIKOS
    • PERFORMER
      Lorenda Ramou
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 07, 2019
    • UPC
      7318599923642
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2364
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    2. II. Andantino

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    3. III. Presto - Andantino - Prestissimo

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    4. I. —

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    5. II. Molto moderato

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    6. III. Shimmy tempo

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    7. I. Allegretto vivace

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    8. II. Siciliano

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    9. III. (Finale)

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    10. 15 Little Variations, AK 75c

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    11. I. Largo

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    12. II. Gavotte I-II

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    13. III. Rapsodie

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    14. IV. Marsch

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    15. I. Minuetto

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    16. II. Thema con variazioni

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    17. III. Marcia funebra

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    18. IV. Finale

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    19. I. Toccata

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    20. II. Andantino

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    21. III. Polka

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    22. IV. Serenade

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    23. Part I: I. Introduction

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    24. Part I: II. Exertion

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    25. Part I: III. Majestic Dance

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    26. Part I: IV. Fast Cretan Dance

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    27. Part I: V. Intermezzo lirico

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    28. Part I: VI. Finale I

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    29. Part II: I. Epilogue

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    30. Part II: II. Intermezzo

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou

    31. Part II: III. Finale II

      Composer: Nikos Skalkottas

      Performer: Lorenda Ramou


The choice of works on this amply filled album, as well as the performances are the result of Lorenda Ramou’s research into the artistic environment of Nikos Skalkottas, in Berlin (1921–33) and in Athens (1933–49). The programme is organized as a triptych, focusing on three distinctive compositional styles. First, all surviving Berlin works for piano solo are presented in chronological order, showing how the young composer was reacting to the new and exciting jazz/dance music, but also to the people around him and to events in the musical world of Berlin in the 1920s. This is followed by Suites Nos 2, 3 and 4, a group of mature works composed at the beginning of World War II (1940–41). Closing the release, finally, is the dance suite The Gnomes, probably composed in 1939 and one of a group of piano scores for ballets with Greek subjects. Lorenda Ramou has previously released ‘The Land and the Sea of Greece’ – an album of precisely such scores by Skalkottas – which earned her praise from the reviewer in Gramophone: ‘Her playing is full of verve and alive to the delicacy of Skalkottas’s writing.’