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Concerto

for Violin and Orchestra

Κοντσέρτο για βιολί και ορχήστρα έργ. 51

Catalogue No.: YSC94

Status: Completed

Opus: 51

Genre: Concerto

Creative Timeline: Third Period

Number of Movements: 3

Movement Titles:

Adagio – Allegretto comodo – Andante – Allegretto comodo – Andante – Adagio
Adagio
Allegro – Lento – Allegro agitato – Adagio – Allegro con nerbo

Instrumentation:

3232-4220, Harp, 4 Timpani, Percussion (Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Cymbals, Tam-Tam, Triangle, Snare Drum, Bass Drum), Strings

Written in: Athens

Date: March 14, 1987

Duration: 00:25:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	That Time	Scan of Beckett's "That Time" in a Greek translation by Nassos Detzortis containing the composer's annotations.	17	PDF	View or Download
2	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	49	PDF	View or Download
3	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	10	PDF	View or Download
4	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	20	PDF	View or Download
5	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		That Time	Samuel Beckett	Play		View

Sound Archives

#	Image	Title	Description	Recording Date	Format	Running Time	Remarks	Audio Files
1		Violin Concerto Op. 51	Yorgos Sicilianos – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 Georgios Demertzis (violin) Nikos Christodoulou (conductor) Aalborg Symphony Orchestra Græsk Festival Aalborg Aalborghallen (Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center) Aalborg, Denmark August 10, 1995 (Live Recording)	August 10, 1995	Digital (WAV)	00.25.27	Live Recording - Aallborg, Denmark	View

Texts

#	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Text Page
1	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (1987)	Programme Notes	1987	Greek	View
2	Interview with the Newspaper Mesimvrini	Interview	1989	Greek	View
3	Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek	View

Books

#	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Item Page
1	Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference: Beyond the Centres: Musical Avant-Gardes Since 1950	Lidia Ader, Pavlos Antoniadis, Antonios Antonopoulos, Marta Blazanovic, David Borgo, Dahlia Borsche, Christopher Cary, Kostas Chardas, Valia Christopoulou, Scott A. Currie, Anna Dalos, Nicola Davico, Andrew Raffo Dewar, Stuart Paul Duncan, Yannis Erifillidis, Philip Ewell, Dimitris Exarchos, Sabine Feisst, Pablo Fessel, Demosthenes Fistouris, Mark Fitzgerald, Patrick Glen, Stephen Graham, João Paulo Guimarães, Golan Gur, Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis, Justyna Humięcka-Jakubowska, Rafael L. Junchaya, Edward Jurkowski, Konstantinos D. Kakavelakis, Magdalini Kalopana, Ursula-Helen Kassaveti, Kalin Kirilov, Alexandros Kleidonas, Georgia Kondyli, Kinga Krzymowska, Athanasia D. Kyriakidou, César Leal, Theodoros Lotis, Bogumila Mika, Christopher J. Miller, Thomas W. Patteson, Anna Pelekanou, Clara Petrozzi, William Price, Lydia Rilling, Edgardo J. Rodríguez, Katy Romanou, Giorgos Sakallieros, Lola San Martín Arbide, Svetlana Savenko, Florian Scheding, Anastasia Siopsi, Costas Tsougras, Tanja Uimonen, Elisaveta Valchinova-Chendova, Iossif Valette, Alexandra Vinzenz, Panos Vlagopoulos, Petros Vouvaris, David Walters, Mark Walters, Pao-Hsiang Wang, Jerry Wigens, Mandy-Suzanne Wong, George Zervos, Julijana Zhabeva-Papazova.	University of Thessaloniki	2010	Musicology	Abstracts	English	View
2	Performing Sicilianos: Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	University of London	2015	Musicology, Performance	Thesis	English	View
3	Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	Benaki Museum	2020	Musicology, Performance	Monograph	English	View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		In the Manner of Yorgos Sicilianos: Mediation and Innovation in Yorgos Sicilianos	Panos F. Vlagopoulos	Department of Music Studies, Ionian University	2016	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	April 17, 1989	Pallas Theatre	Athens	Greece	1st Music Festival of Balkan Countries	Greek Composers' Union	Karolos Trikolidis (conductor), Georgios Demertzis (violin)	Athens State Orchestra	Violin Concerto, Op. 51
2	August 10, 1995	Aalborghallen (Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center)	Aalborg	Denmark	Græsk Festival Aalborg	Græsk Festival Aalborg	Nikos Christodoulou (conductor), Georgios Demertzis (violin)	Aalborg Symphony Orchestra	Violin Concerto, Op. 51
3	April 21, 2000	Friends of Music Hall (Christos Lambrakis Hall)	Athens	Greece	N/A	Athens State Orchestra	Byron Fidetzis (conductor), Georgios Demertzis (violin)	Athens State Orchestra	Violin Concerto, Op. 51

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Aalborg Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra		View
2	Byron Fidetzis	Conductor, Cellist, Author	Athens State Orchestra Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Athens Philharmonia Orchestra	View
3	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
4	Karolos Trikolidis	Conductor, Violinist, Composer	Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra	View
5	Nikos Christodoulou	Conductor	Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Municipality of Athens ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	View

Conferences & Events

#	Image	Name	Type	Location	Year	Event Page
1		Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Book Launch	Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”	2020	View

Broadcasts

#	Image	Title	Format	Channel/Station	Date	Broadcast Page
1		Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Stream	YouTube	September 4, 2020	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 130-132
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 102, 103, 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), 201-237
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 166, 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), 23, 130, 136, 144, 186, 208
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, 92, 93, 95, 118

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