Themes of Ancient Greek and Traditional Music interwoven with works by Gluck, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Ibert, Shankar, Antoniou, and Varotsis

The Municipality of Messini and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia invite you on Sunday, July 23, to the Andromonastiro, for a musical evening dedicated to the Flute and the Harp.

Natalia Geraki and Sissy Makropoulou, internationally renowned soloists, will perform together in a mystical dialogue of sound set in the courtyard of the recently restored Byzantine monastery, a monument revived through the efforts of the Ministry of Culture.

There, before the main gate of the church, nestled among the towers and cells of the monastery and under the deep shade of the trees, the resonance of the Dionysian flute and the Apollonian harp will transport us into a world where Greek, Spanish, French, Romanian, Jewish, and Indian traditions intertwine with ancient Greek myths and Maniote laments.

More about the artists:
www.nataliagerakis.com
www.sissimakropoulou.com

Programme

MESOMEDES of Crete (2nd c. AD)
Invocation to the Muse

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714–1787)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1762)
from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice, arranged for flute and harp

ATHENIAN ANONYMOUS
Delphic Hymn (ca. 138 BC)

Canciones Sefarditas
Medieval songs of the Sephardic Jews of Spain
arranged for flute and harp
I. La Rosa enflorece
II. Ven Querida, Ven Amada
III. Durme Durme
IV. Abrix, mi Galanica

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
Clair de Lune (1905)
arranged for harp

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945)
Romanian Folk Dances (1915–1917)
arranged for flute and harp
I. Joc cu bâtă (Stick Dance)
II. Brâul (Sash Dance)
III. Pe loc (In One Spot)
IV. Buciumeana (Horn Dance from Bucsum)
V. Poargă românească (Romanian Polka)
VI. Mărunțel (Fast Dance)

Two Traditional Greek Themes
arranged for flute and harp

MESOMEDES of Crete (2nd c. AD)
Hymn to the Sun

MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess, 1899)
arranged for flute and harp

JACQUES IBERT (1890–1962)
Entr’Acte (1937)
for flute and harp

SEIKILOS (2nd c. AD)
Epitaph of Seikilos

THODOROS ANTONIOU (1935–2018)
Lament for Michelle (1988)
based on an authentic moiroloi (lament) from Mani, for solo flute

KOSTAS VAROTSIS (b. 1963)
Conversations with Brahms I & II (2022)
Miniatures for solo harp

RAVI SHANKAR (1920–2012)
L’Aube enchantée sur le Raga “Todi” (1976)
(Enchanted Dawn on the Morning Raga) for flute and harp