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Ballade

Simphonic Fantasy for Large Orchestra

Μπαλλάντα για μεγάλη ορχήστρα έργο 56

Catalogue No.: YSC99

Status: Completed

Opus: 56

Genre: Orchestral

Creative Timeline: Third Period

Number of Movements: 1

Instrumentation:

4334-4331, Harp, Timpani, Percussion (Xylophone, Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Triangle, Tam-Tam, Cymbals, Clapper), Strings

Written in: Athens

Date: May 11, 1994

Duration: 00:15:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	53	PDF	View or Download
2	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	2	PDF	View or Download
3	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	24	PDF	View or Download
4	Poem with Note's by the Composer	Scan of the poem (The Dead Brother's Song) with the composer's annotations.	2	PDF	View or Download
5	Composer's Note (Typewritten)	Scan of the typewritten composer's note.	2	PDF	View or Download
6	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		The Dead Brother’s Song	Traditional	Poem		View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgo Sicilianos - Concerto, Ballade, Mellichomeide	Alkis Panayotopoulos, Anna Todorova, Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria	Ballade Simphonic Fantasy for Large Orchestra Op. 56, Concerto for Orchestra Op. 12, Mellichomeide for Soprano and eleven instruments. Text in poems by Sappho and a dedication to Sappho by Alcaeus Op. 44	Compact Disc	Agorá Musica	1999	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Ballade, Op. 56 (1994)	Programme Notes	1998	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	June 2, 1998	Friends of Music Hall (Christos Lambrakis Hall)	Athens	Greece	Concert in memory of Miltiadis Caridis	N/A	Miltos Logiadis (conductor)	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	Ballade, Op. 56

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Alkis Panayotopoulos	Conductor	Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra	View
2	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation	View
3	Miltos Logiadis	Conductor	Orchestra of Colours (Ορχήστρα των Χρωμάτων) ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	View
4	Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria	Orchestra		View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 139-141
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 144, 145, 147
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 277, 280
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 433
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 186, 248
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), 92, 119

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