updated: 20/02/2025

Adagio and Vivace

for String Orchestra

Catalogue No.: YSC42

Status: Completed

Opus: 8A

Key: C Minor

Genre: Orchestral

Creative Timeline: First Period

Number of Movements: 2

Movement Titles:

Instrumentation:

Strings (Violins, Violas, Cellos, and Double Basses)

Written in: Athens & Rome

Date: July 1, 1953

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Full Score	Scan of the composer's full score for "Adagio and Vivace".	36	PDF	View or Download
2	Double Bass Part	Scan of the composer's handwritten second double bass parts for "Adagio and Vivace".	7	PDF	View or Download
3	Cello Part	Scan of the composer's handwritten second cello parts for "Adagio and Vivace".	10	PDF	View or Download
4	Violin IΙ Part	Scan of the composer's handwritten second violin parts for "Adagio and Vivace".	10	PDF	View or Download
5	Violin I Part	Scan of the composer's handwritten first violin parts for "Adagio and Vivace".	10	PDF	View or Download
6	Viola Part	Scan of the composer's handwritten viola parts for "Adagio and Vivace".	10	PDF	View or Download
7	Final Score (incomplete file)	Incomplete scan of the final score.	12	PDF	View or Download

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Byzantine Chant		Music		View
2		Greek Folk Songs		Music		View

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	July 2, 1953	Athens Radio Station	Athens	Greece	N/A	National Radio Foundation (EIR)	Philoktetes Economides (conductor)	National Radio Foundation Orchestra (EIR)	Adagio and Vivace, Op. 8a
2	February 20, 1981	Rialto Theatre	Athens	Greece	Ekphrasis '80-'81	Ministry of Culture and Science	Spyros Tombras (conductor)	Athens String Ensemble	Adagio and Vivace
3	February 9, 2024	Teatro Politeama Garibaldi	Palermo	Italy	Novecento e modernismo italiano	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	Georgios Balatsinos (conductor)	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	Adagio and Vivace Op. 8a
4	February 10, 2024	Teatro Politeama Garibaldi	Palermo	Italy	Novecento e modernismo italiano	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	Georgios Balatsinos (conductor)	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	Adagio and Vivace Op. 8a

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Athens String Ensemble	String Orchestra		View
2	Georgios Balatsinos	Conductor, Composer	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	View
3	National Radio Foundation Orchestra (EIR)	Orchestra	National Radio Foundation (EIR) - (1945 - 1970)	View
4	Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana	Orchestra		View
5	Philoktetes Economides	Conductor	Athens State Orchestra	View
6	Spyros Tombras	Violinist	Athens String Ensemble Contemporary Music Quartet	View

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 37-38
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 265
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 115