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String Quartet No. 5

Κουαρτέτο Νο 5, για 2 βιολιά, βιόλα και βιολοντσέλλο, έργο 53

Catalogue No.: YSC96

Status: Completed

Opus: 53

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Third Period

Number of Movements: 3

Movement Titles:

Andante – Piu mosso e agitato – Andante – Allegro marcato – Andante
Allegretto
Adagio espressivo – Allegro agitato – Poco meno mosso – Allegro agitato

Instrumentation:

String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, and Cello)

Written in: Athens

Date: April 20, 1991

Duration: 00:20:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Cover/First Page	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1		Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	51	PDF	View or Download
2		Full Score	Scan of the full score.	34	PDF	View or Download

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music II	Apostolos Chandrakis, Chara Sira, Dimitrios Chandrakis, Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou, New Hellenic Quartet	Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 61, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 45, String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53	Compact Disc	Leskhi tou diskou - Poikile Stoa	2006	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 Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek	View
4	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	December 9, 1993	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Dimitris Semsis (violin I), Sergiu Nastasa (violin II), Stamos Semsis (viola), Renato Ripo (cello)	Echo (Ηχώ) String Quartet	String Quartet No. 5, Op. 53
2	March 18, 1996	Goethe Institute of Athens	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek Composers' Union, Goethe Institute of Athens	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Paris Anastasiadis (viola), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 5, Op. 53
3	December 14, 2000	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	A Tribute to Composer Yorgo Sicilianos	Athens Concert Hall	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Paris Anastasiadis (viola), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) [Op. 28 & Op. 53] - Georgios Demertzis (violin), Maria Asteriadou (piano) [Op. 45] - Maria Asteriadou (piano), Georgios Demertzis (violin), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) [Op. 46]	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45 - Pantoum, Op. 46 - String Quartet No. 5, Op. 53
4	March 13, 2007	Benaki Museum	Athens	Greece	Exhibition - Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005, the composer in the avant-garde of contemporary music	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Chara Sira (violist), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53
5	April 24, 2010	Grand Arsenal	Chania	Greece	N/A	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Angeliki Yannaki (viola), Angelos Liakakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53
6	April 26, 2010	Piraeus 138	Athens	Greece	N/A	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Angeliki Yannaki (viola), Angelos Liakakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Angeliki Yannaki	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
2	Angelos Liakakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
3	Apostolos Chandrakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
4	Chara Sira	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Colours (Ορχήστρα των Χρωμάτων), ERT- National Symphony Orchestra, University of Macedonia	View
5	Dimitrios Chandrakis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
6	Dimitris Semsis	Violinist	Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra, Echo (Ηχώ) String Quartet	View
7	Echo String Quartet	String Quartet		View
8	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
9	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
10	Paris Anastasiadis	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
11	Renato Ripo	Cellist	Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra Echo (Ηχώ) String Quartet Athens Philharmonia Orchestra	View
12	Sergiu Nastasa	Violinist	Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra Echo (Ηχώ) String Quartet	View
13	Stamos Semsis	Violist, Violinist, Singer, Songwriter	Echo (Ηχώ) String Quartet	View

References

“Νέο Ελληνικό Κουαρτέτο: Αφιέρωμα στον Γιώργο Σισιλιάνο (1920-2005) - Benaki Museum Event.” Benaki Museum Official Website. Accessed June 16, 2024. https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=event&id=2407&lang=el.
Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 134-135
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 111, 112, 117
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 46, 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), 179, 203, 204, 348
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, 213
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), 68, 104, 119, 123

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