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Epiklesis (II)

for Narrator, male-choir, four women's voices and twelve performers. Original text from Aeschelus' tragedy "Persians"

Catalogue No.: YSC70

Status: Completed

Related Work: Epiklesis

Opus: 29B

Genre: Voice

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 1

Instrumentation:

2 Horns, 3 Trombones, 3 Pianos (3rd Piano can be upright), Glockenspiel, Harp, Percussion (3 Performers: Xylophone, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone, 3 Large Suspended Cymbals, Piccolo Snare Drum, Bass Snare without Snares, Bass Drum, Large Tamtam), Choir (7 Tenors, 7 Basses, 4 Sopranos), Narrator

Written in: Athens

Date: November 14, 1968

Duration: 00:08:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	43	PDF	View or Download
2	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	26	PDF	View or Download
3	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score. [Unavailable]		PDF
4	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	32	PDF	View or Download
5	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note which outlines the work's instrumentation, provides performance notes, and Aeschylus's text in Greek, with a transliteration and translation in English.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		The Persians	Aeschylus	Tragedy	Aeschylus’s The Persians – Lines 528-680	View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Greek Composers - From the 3rd Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music	Giannis Mantakas, Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music, Theodore Antoniou, Yorgos Sicilianos	Epiklesis II Op. 29b	LP - Vinyl	EMI - Columbia	1970	View

Texts

#	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Text Page
1	Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek	View
2	Interview with Michel Fais	Interview	1992	Greek	View
3	Interview with Valia Christopoulou	Interview	1998	Greek	View
4	Searching for the Lost Musical Tradition of Ancient Greek Tragedy	Paper	1999	Greek	View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	December 22, 1968	Hilton	Athens	Greece	Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music	Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Theodore Antoniou (conductor), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Spirοs Kalogirοu (narrator)	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music, Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Epiklesis II, Op. 29b

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Giannis Mantakas	Chorusmaster	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	View
2	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Choir	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	View
3	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	Ensemble		View
4	Spiros Kalogirou	Actor, Narrator		View
5	Theodore Antoniou	Composer, Conductor	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music Alea III Boston University	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 81-84
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 272
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 180, 188, 284, 346, 347, 382, 385, 429
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), 21, 37, 85, 115, 185, 203, 244
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), 46, 47, 117

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