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Affinities: Greek and German art songs - Antonelou, Mörk

Affinities: Greek and German art songs - Antonelou, Mörk

BIS  BIS-2439

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Vocal


Songs by Constantinidis, Zemlinsky, Kalomiris, Schoenberg, Mitropoulos, Weill, Jarnach, Skalkottas, Beer-Walbrunn, Riadis, Thuille & Lialios

Fanie Antonelou (soprano)
Kerstin Mörk (piano)


The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled ‘Affinities’. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs – a varied one, filtered through friendships, family connections and teacher-pupil relationships.

All the composers represented on the disc studied and/or worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the three great German-speaking musical centres – Vienna, Munich and Berlin – and include figures both well known (Schoenberg, Weill, Skalkottas and Mitropoulos) and less familiar (Emilios Riadis, Dimitrios Lialios, Ludwig Thuille). With twelve composers and even more poets involved, the subject matter of the individual songs is diverse indeed – from a café scene in Berlin (Der Abschiedsbrief by Kurt Weill in cabaret mode) to a hymn to Aphrodite, set by Dimitri Mitropoulos in a highly expressionistic free atonal idiom inspired by Schoenberg.

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