Track Listing 1. Le Temps Perdu 2. Dance Theme Var ll 3. Notes 1 4. Seeking Var ll 5. Waltz by The River 6. Unravelling Time l 7. Tsiganiko l 8. Dance Theme Var l 9. Seeking 10. Memories From Siberia 11. Unravelling Time ll 12. Notes ll 13. Tsiganiko ll 14. Seeking Var l 15. Dance Theme 16. Le Mal du Pays 17. Nostalgia Song 18. Solitude 19. Adieu
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Manfred Eicher | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Proper Note |
Album Notes Personnel: Eleni Karaindrou (piano); Maria Bildea (harp); Sergiu Nastasa (violin); Renato Ripo (cello); Dinos Hadjiirodanou (accordion); Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe); Spyros Kazianis (bassoon); Antonis Lagos (French horn); Natalia Michailidou (piano); Alexander Myrat.Audio Mixers: Nikos Espialidis; Manfred Eicher.Audio Remasterer: Peter Depian.Ensembles: Hellenic Radio Television Orchestra; La Camerata Friends of Music Orchestra.Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou's long-term collaboration with director Theo Angelopoulos continues on the score for his film, DUST OF TIME. The setting for the music in unusual: Angelopoulos' film is about a director named "A" who gets caught up himself within the film he is making, set between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Crossing countries, continents, and lives, the film called for the score to be a mirror image of itself. Hence, Karaindrou found herself with the rare opportunity to write music that would actually be performed in the film itself, instead of being heard as cues to move the narrative along. Indeed, two of her pieces, "Dance," and "Seeking," are performed in three variations each, both with full orchestras and chamber groups courtesy of Camerata, Friends of Music Orchestra, and Hellenic Radio Television Orchestra, all conducted by Alexandros Myrat. While her many scores for his films have been celebrated for their subtlety and ingenious sense of time and nuance--as well as instrumentation, texture, and color--this one moves across musical cultures as well as across the span of years built into the script. As always, the Hellenocentric is a core part of her musical language, and creates a direct, even (quietly) visceral effect on the listener.
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