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Tanagraea

Suite for two Pianos

Catalogue No.: YSC53

Status: Completed

Related Work: String Quartet No. 2

Opus: 17C

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"To my wife."

Number of Movements: 9

Movement Titles:

Prelude (The awakening of Tanagraea)
Talk with the mirror – “How beautiful thou art” whispered the image of an identical Tanagraea in the mirror…
The fan
The parasol or the pensive maiden….
Promenade (The amusements)
The game of the balls
The Harp
Dance
Finale (The death of Tanagraea)

Instrumentation:

2 Pianos

Written in: Athens

Date: October 16, 1957

Duration: 00:17:33

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Cover/First Page	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1		Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note dated February, 1969.	1	PDF	View or Download
2		Full Score	Scan of the full score.	31	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Tanagra figurines		Ancient Greek Pottery		View

Discography

#	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1	Yorgo Sicilianos	Argyris Kounadis, Instrumental Ensemble of the 2nd Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music, Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara, Popi Eustratiadi	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Episodes Variations and Interludes for Chamber Orchestra Op. 27, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	LP - Vinyl	Lyra	1971	View
2	Works for One and Two Pianos	Alexandra Papastefanou, Elisabeth Kounalaki	Contrastes for Two Pianos on a Chromatique Theme by Orlande de Lassus Op. 48, Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	Compact Disc	Lyra	1995	View
3	Yorgos Sicilianos Piano Music 1957-1984	Daniël Kramer, Ermis Theodorakis	Contrastes for Two Pianos on a Chromatique Theme by Orlande de Lassus Op. 48, Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	Compact Disc	Hellenic Society For Aesthetics	2007	View
4	Y. Sicilianos D. Dragatakis K. Sfetsas Works for two pianos	Dionysis Boukouvalas, Dionysis Semitekolos	Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	Digital	bemoΛ	2024	View

Sound Archives

#	Image	Title	Description	Recording Date	Format	Running Time	Remarks	Audio Files
1		Tanagraea Op. 17c	Yorgos Sicilianos – Tanagraea Op. 17c Yannis Papadopoulos (piano) Anthoula Papadopoulou (piano) ERT Studio C ERT Morning Concerts, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation Athens, Greece	June 28, 1983	Digital (Aiff)	00.18.00	Live Broadcast Recording	View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		Analytical and Interpretative Approach: Yorgo Sicilianos’s Works for Two Pianos	Apostolos Palios		2022	English		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	December 6, 1963		Heraklion	Greece	N/A	Greek Italian Association	Eleni Karouzou-Makarona (piano), Argyro Metaxa (piano)		Tanagraea Op. 17c
2	February 14, 1979	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Eva Lolou (piano), Eva Anastasiadou-Stange (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
3	April 26, 1979	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Eva Lolou (piano), Eva Anastasiadou-Stange (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
4	December 1, 1981	Great Hall, Society of the Friends of the People	Athens	Greece	N/A	Society of the Friends of the People	Yannis Papadopoulos (piano), Anthoula Papadopoulou (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
5	January 22, 1982		Plovdiv	Bulgaria	N/A	Union of Bulgarian Composers	Julia Ganev (piano), Konstantin Ganev (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
6	October 11, 1982		Plovdiv	Bulgaria	N/A	Union of Bulgarian Composers	Julia Ganev (piano), Konstantin Ganev (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
7	October 12, 1982	Bulgaria Concert Hall	Sofia	Bulgaria	N/A	Union of Bulgarian Composers	Julia Ganev (piano), Konstantin Ganev (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
8	April 1, 1983	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Julia Ganev (piano), Konstantin Ganev (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
9	June 28, 1983	ERT Studio C	Athens	Greece	N/A	ERT Morning Concerts, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation	Yannis Papadopoulos (piano), Anthoula Papadopoulou (piano)	N/A	Tanagraea Op. 17c
10	March 30, 1984	Bartók Hall	Budapest	Hungary	N/A		Yannis Papadopoulos (piano), Anthoula Papadopoulou (piano)	Duo Papadopoulou	Tanagraea Op. 17c
11	May 23, 2002	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Ermis Theodorakis (piano)[Op. 17c, Op. 23, Op. 32, Op. 48], Emmanouil "Manolis" Perysinakis (piano)[Op. 17c, Op. 48]	N/A	Tanagraea, Op. 17c - Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23 - Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32 - Contrastes, Op. 48
12	January 18, 2010	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Christos Marinos (piano), Nikos Adraskelas (piano)	Duo Vivo	Tanagraea Op. 17c
13	March 18, 2010	Oscar Romero College	Hoorn	The Netherlands	N/A		Christos Marinos (piano), Nikos Adraskelas (piano)	Duo Vivo	Tanagraea Op. 17c
14	May 19, 2013	Municipal Conservatory of Volos	Volos	Greece	N/A		Christos Marinos (piano), Nikos Adraskelas (piano)	Duo Vivo	Tanagraea Op. 17c
15	February 25, 2022	Philippos Nakas Conservatory Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Christos Marinos (piano), Angelika Papanikolaou (piano)		Tanagraea Op. 17c

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Angelika Papanikolaou	Pianist		View
2	Anthoula Papadopoulou	Pianist	Duo Papadopoulou	View
3	Argyro Metaxa	Pianist		View
4	Christos Marinos	Pianist	University of Minnesota New York University University of Ioannina Duo Vocialo Duo Vivo	View
5	Daniël Kramer	Pianist	Conservatorium van Amsterdam	View
6	Dionysis Boukouvalas	Pianist, Composer		View
7	Dionysis Semitekolos	Pianist		View
8	Eleni Karouzou-Makarona	Pianist		View
9	Emmanouil "Manolis" Perysinakis	Pianist, Composer		View
10	Ermis Theodorakis	Pianist, Composer		View
11	Eva Anastasiadou-Lolou	Pianist		View
12	Eva Anastasiadou-Stange	Pianist		View
13	Julia Ganev	Pianist	Duo Ganev	View
14	Konstantin Ganev	Pianist	Duo Ganev	View
15	Nikos Adraskelas	Pianist	Duo Vivo Angelinis-Hadjinikou Foundation	View
16	Yannis Papadopoulos	Pianist	Duo Papadopoulou	View

Broadcasts

#	Image	Title	Format	Channel/Station	Date	Broadcast Page
1		Tanagraea Op. 17c - Parnassos Literary Society Hall - Duo Vivo	Stream	YouTube	May 26, 2016	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 55-57
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 24, 25, 49, 98, 114
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 145, 146, 191, 320, 321
Yorgos Sicilianos, "Interview with Kaiti Romanou," in , On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (unpublished manuscript, 2010), original manuscript for the book, copy provided to Anastasios R. A. Mavroudis., 323
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), 18, 78, 94, 116, 121, 185, 196, 226, 242
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), 48, 65, 116

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