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Cello Concerto

Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre (1963)

Catalogue No.: YSC60

Status: Completed

Opus: 22

Genre: Concerto

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"à Manos Hadjidakis"

Number of Movements: 3

Movement Titles:

Moderato – Allegro
Molto adagio
Allegretto mosso

Instrumentation:

2222-2210, Harp, Celesta, Piano, Timpani, Percussion (2 Performers: Snare Drum, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Clapper, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Triangle, Tam-Tam), Strings, Solo Cello

Written in: Athens

Date: March 9, 1963

Duration: 00:25:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	73	PDF	View or Download
2	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	53	PDF	View or Download
3	Piano Reduction Score	Scan of the piano reduction score.	32	PDF	View or Download

Texts

#	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Text Page
1	My Music of the Last Fifteen Years (1952-1967)	Lecture	1967	Greek	View
2	Interview with Andreas Deligiannis	Interview	1968	Greek	View
3	A Conversation with Kornilios Diamantopoulos and Konstantinos Lygnos	Interview	2004	Greek	View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	August 16, 1965	Odeon of Herodes Atticus	Athens	Greece	Athens Festival	Athens Festival	Manos Hadjidakis (conductor), Giannis Chronopoulos (cello)	Athens Experimental Orchestra	Cello Concerto Op. 22
2	August 23, 1965	Dassous Theatre	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	N/A	Manos Hadjidakis (conductor), Giannis Chronopoulos (cello)	Athens Experimental Orchestra	Cello Concerto Op. 22
3	August 24, 1965	Ancient Theatre of Demetrias	Volos	Greece	N/A	N/A	Manos Hadjidakis (conductor), Giannis Chronopoulos (cello)	Athens Experimental Orchestra	Cello Concerto Op. 22
4	August 26, 1965		Patras	Greece	N/A	N/A	Manos Hadjidakis (conductor), Giannis Chronopoulos (cello)	Athens Experimental Orchestra	Cello Concerto Op. 22
5	August 30, 1965		Island of Rhodes	Greece	N/A	N/A	Manos Hadjidakis (conductor), Giannis Chronopoulos (cello)	Athens Experimental Orchestra	Cello Concerto Op. 22
6	May 15, 1970		Geneva	Switzerland	N/A	N/A	Samuel Baud-Bovy (conductor), Frank Dunand (cello)	Orchestre de la Suisse Romande	Cello Concerto Op. 22

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Frank Dunand	Cellist		View
2	Giannis Chronopoulos	Cellist		View
3	Manos Hadjidakis	Conductor, Composer	Athens Experimental Orchestra, Orchestra of Colours	View
4	Orchestre de la Suisse Romande	Orchestra		View
5	Samuel Baud-Bovy	Conductor	Orchestre de la Suisse Romande	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 66-68
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 247, 269
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 147, 198, 283, 323, 324
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), 20, 185, 202
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), 112, 116

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