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IAMBS AND ANAPAESTS
PART I – I LOVE YOU
Poems by Kostis Palamas
1. Prelude – Joining Anapaests to lambs
2. I Love You Like a Brave Song (1918/1925/1943)
3. Igisso (1922/1943)
4. Two Little Eyes (1922-1943)
5. The Woman’s Eyes (1924/1943)
6. Handsome Boy – O My Children, My Loves (1925/1943)
7. Unearthing Them from Somewhere Below (1925/1943)
8. In the Gorges of Arna (1918/1925/1943)
Orchestra: 3 3 3 2 – 4 3 3 1 – Timpani, Percussion, Harp, Celesta, Strings
First Performance: 4 April 1925 (The two songs, I Love You Like a Brave Song, and At the Gorges of Arna, were first performed on 18 March 1918 at the Athens Municipal Theatre by Kimon Triantafyllou with Armand Marsick conducting)
Olympia Theatre, Athens
Orchestra of the Hellenic Conservatory
Conducted by Manolis Kalomiris
Soloists: Marika Kalfopoulou, Kimon Triantafyllou
Publication:
Full socre: Unpublished
Voice and piano: Maurice Senart, Paris 1929.
Discography
Manolis Kalomiris: Sunrise / I love you.
The Hellenic Culture Organization S.A. – Ministry of Culture, Athens 2006.
Presentation of the CD in Greek. [link]
* For the arrangement for solo voice, violin and piano look under the Category of works Songs for Voice and Instrumental Ensemble.
I love you (S’ agapo), 1943 autograph manuscript, title page. [© MKS]
Igisso (Hegesso), a woman’s name.
Arna, village in the region of Lakonia in the southern Peloponnese. (Arna also signifies negation, in which case the title would assume a symbolic meaning).
Palamas, Kostis [link] (1859-1943), great lyric poet of historical importance in Greek literature. He was during his lifetime the admired leader of the Demotic Movement. He wrote in a grandiloquent flamboyant style, in which lyric expression was interwoven with elements of historical and traditional character. Palamas’ poetry became an important inspiration for Kalomiris’ vocal work. The two men had a lifelong friendship and admiration for each other. Kalomiris set to music numerous poems of Palamas and, finally, dedicated to him the Symphony No. 3, Palamiki.
[Notes by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Audio [Link]
Manolis Kalomiris, I love you, “The Woman’s Eyes”
University of York Orchestra
Byron Fidetzis, conductor
Mata Katsuli, soprano
2006, The Hellenic Culture Organization S.A. – Ministry of Culture.
