Utwory na płycie:

• 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts) - No. 2, To Erináki
• 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts) - No. 19, Méra mérosse
• 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts) - No. 10, To mávro yemení
• 20 Songs of the Greek People (Excerpts) - No. 16, Apópse ta messánichta
• The State and Solitude, Book 4 - No. 4, I neraidoparméni
• 5 Lieder, Op. 15 - No. 2, Ich hört ein Sichlein rauschen
• 9 Short Greek Songs (Excerpts) - No. 8, Mágissa
• 9 Short Greek Songs (Excerpts) - No. 4, Missiriótissa
• The State and Solitude, Book 4 - No. 3, I neráida
• The Lute and Stick - No. 3, Rumeliótissa
• 3 Frauenlieder, Op. 5 - No. 1, Klage
• 4 Lieder, Op. 7 - No. 1, Es erklingt wie Liebestöne

Giannis Constantinidis:
Young Irene
The Break of Day
The Black Headscarf
Tonight at Midnight

Alexander von Zemlinsky:
Des Mädchens Klage
Mädel, kommst du mit zum Tanz?
Nun schwillt der See so bang

Manolis Kalomiris:
Enchanted by the Fairies
The Fairy
Girl from Roumeli

Arnold Schoenberg:
Erwartung
Mädchenlied

Dimitri Mitropoulos:
The Death of the Sailor
‘To Celestial Aphrodite’

Kurt Weill:
Der Abschiedsbrief
Klops Lied

Philipp Jarnach:
Aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn („Ich hört ein Sichlein rauschen“)

Nikos Skalkottas:
The Doe

Anton Beer-Walbrunn:
Maria Sehnsucht

Emilios Riadis:
Witch
Girl from Missiri

Ludwig Thuille:
Klage

Dimitrios Lialios:
Es erklingt wie Liebestöne

The Greek soprano Fanie Antonelou and German pianist Kerstin Mörk here join forces in an exciting project, entitled ‘Affinities’. In a carefully constructed sequence of 23 songs, they explore the kinship between Greek and German art songs – a varied one, filtered through friendships, family connections and teacher-pupil relationships.

All the composers represented on the disc studied and/or worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the three great German-speaking musical centres – Vienna, Munich and Berlin – and include figures both well known (Schoenberg, Weill, Skalkottas and Mitropoulos) and less familiar (Emilios Riadis, Dimitrios Lialios, Ludwig Thuille). With twelve composers and even more poets involved, the subject matter of the individual songs is diverse indeed – from a café scene in Berlin (Der Abschiedsbrief by Kurt Weill in cabaret mode) to a hymn to Aphrodite, set by Dimitri Mitropoulos in a highly expressionistic free atonal idiom inspired by Schoenberg.

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Recording: August 2017 at Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany. Grand piano: Steinway D. Płyta wydana w opakowaniu BIS ekopak.