Composer: Georgios Axiotis
Orchestra: New Festival Opera-Symphony Orchestra Sofia
Conductor: Byron Fidetzis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574353
Release: 2022
Size: 726 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Sunset
02. Prelude and Fugue
A Love Trilogy
03. I. On the Mountain
04. II. On the Plain
05. III. At the Ball
06. Remembrance From a Ball
07. Lyrical Intermezzo
08. Like a Game
Georgios Axiotis was a leading and historically significant Greek composer who was opposed to the “Germanisation” of music education in Greece. His training in Naples led him to conceive of national music of a mediterranean quality related to the naturalism of Italian verismo. The works on this album are his most important and lasting contributions to Greek orchestral music. Axiotis possessed an exceptional instinct for balance and timbre and was a splendid orchestrator. The lyricism in these pieces exudes Greek late Romanticism, while his nature depictions are strongly atmospheric.