NIGHT SERENADE by Collegium Cyprium
Tala Amphitheatre
Sunday 11 September - 8pm
Free entrance
For those who may have missed this posting from a few weeks ago:
To Collegium Cyprium ιδρύθηκε τον Ιανουάριο του 1994 από τον Α. Νικολάου και είναι ένα ευέλικτο σχήμα μουσικών, με βασικό σκοπό να συμβάλει στην ανάπτυξη και τον εμπλουτισμό της μουσικής δραστηριότητας στην Κύπρο και να φέρει το ακροατήριο πιο κοντά στην κλασική μουσική. Το ρεπερτόριο του καλύπτει ένα ευρύ φάσμα χρωμάτων και θεμάτων, από την εποχή του μπαρόκ μέχρι τις μέρες μας, καθώς επίσης ελληνική και κυπριακή μουσική.
Collegium Cyprium was founded in 1994 by A. Nicolaou, aiming to enrich the musical scene in Cyprus and to bring classical music closer to the Cypriot audience. Its repertoire employs a vast variety of musical themes, spanning from the baroque period to present days. It also includes Greek and Cypriot music.
Night Serenade – Nυχτερινή Σερενάτα
Serenade is a musical composition or performance delivered in honour of someone or something. Serenades are typically calm, light pieces of music. The term comes from the Italian word serenata, which itself derives from the Latin senerus. Sense influenced by Italian sera ‘’evening’’, from Latin sera, fem. of serus ‘’late’’.
Properly, music sung and played at night below a lady’s window. The German is Nachtmusik (night music – mostly applied to instrumental compositions) implying performances by a performer standing below the window and usually applied to vocal music.
PROGRAMME – ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ
Franz Schubert: Serenade – Σερενάτα (1797-1828)
W. A. Mozart: A little night music serenade K. 525 – Μία μικρή νυχτερινή μουσική
(1756-1791) (a) Allegro, (b) Romanza. Andante,
(c) Menuetto. Allegretto, (d) Rondo. Allegro
Manos Hatzidakis: (a) Mia Panayia, (b) Rallou, (c) To feggari einai kokkino (1925-1994)
Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony – Απλή Συμφωνία
(1913-1976) (a) Boisterous Bourree – Θορυβώδες Μπουρέ. Allegro ritmico
(b) Playful Pizzicato – Παιχνιδιάρικο Πιτσικάτο. Presto possibile
(c) Sentimental Saraband – Αισθηματική Σαραμπάντα. Poco lento e pesante
(d) Floricsome Finale – Πρόσχαρο Φινάλε. Prestissimo con fuoco
M. Hatzidakis: (a) Thalassa platia, (b) O kosmos sou na eimai egω, (c) Ela se mena
(d) Ta paidia tou Pirea (instrumental)
Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (1881-1945) (a) Stick Dance, (b) Sash Dance, (c) In One Spot, (d) Dance from Bucsum (e) Romanian Polka, (f) Fast Dance
M. Hatzidakis: Hartino to feggaraki
F. Sartori: Time to say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro)
COLLEGIUM CYPRIUM
Andreas P Nicolaou - violin
Giorgos Chadjigeorgiou - violin
Andreas Keliris - viola
Evgenia Karapataki - cello
Mariza Anastasiadi - soprano
PROGRAMME:
1. Serenade by Franz Schubert composed in July 1826, is a lied [song] for solo voice and piano. It is a setting of the ‘’song’’ in act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
2. Eine kleine Nachtmusik (a little night music) K. 525 is a composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As well as his more serious works Mozart composed many lighter works simply to entertain. In Mozart’s day this, the most popular of all his serenades, would have made perfect after- dinner entertainment. The deftness of his writing is obvious as he sets out to do no more than charm. No story, no drama, simply a light heard musical conversation.
3. Μanos Hatzidakis ( 1925- 1994) was Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely considered to be one of the greatest Greek composers and one of the most globally recognized. His legasy and contribution are widespread among the works of contemporary Greek music, through the second half of the 20th and into the 21st century. In 1960, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song Never on Sunday from the film of the same name.
4. The Simple Symphony, op. 4, is a work for string orchestra or string quartet by Benjamin Britten. It was written between December 1933 and February 1934 in Lowestoft, using bits of score that the composer had written for the piano as a young teenager, between 1923 and 1926. He competed his final draft of this piece at age twenty. It was composed for string orchestra and received its first performance in 1934 at Stuart Hall in Norwich, with Britten conducting an amateur orchestra.
5. Romanian Folk Dances is a suite of six short pieces composed by Bela Bartok in 1915. It is based on seven Romantic tunes from Transylvania, originally played on fiddle or shepherd’s flute.
