Qoppa, The Lost Letter Yiannis Kouroudis

• 1 Qoppa I - Largo 08:41
• 2 Qoppa II - Larghetto 08:36
• 3 Qoppa III - Allegro Ma Non Troppo 10:22
• 4 Qoppa IV - Moderato 08:34
• Total Runtime 36:13

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Yannis Kouroudis kehrt mit seinem neuen Werk zurück, dem Streichquartett „Qoppa, der verlorene Buchstabe“.

Das für Streichquartett geschriebene Werk wird am 11. Oktober erstmals live in der Concert Hall präsentiert. Der Abend ist den musikalischen Sprachen unserer Zeit gewidmet. Das dynamische L’Anima String Quartet spielt zwei Werke, die Fenster in Welten der Erinnerung und Transformation öffnen.

„Qoppa, der verlorene Buchstabe“, erschienen am 10.10., ist inspiriert von einem vergessenen Buchstaben des antiken griechischen Alphabets – Ϙ (Qoppa). Obwohl aus der griechischen Sprache verschwunden, überlebte Qoppa als Buchstabe Q im lateinischen Alphabet. „Qoppa, der verlorene Buchstabe“ erforscht diese Reise des Verlusts und der Transformation – von der Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart, von Griechenland in den Westen, von der Stille zum Klang. Die Musik erzählt nicht, sondern holt in vier Teilen zurück. Wie eine Erinnerung, die nicht völlig vergessen oder für immer verloren ist, sondern wiedergehört werden muss – auf neue Weise.

„Qoppa, der verlorene Buchstabe, entstand aus meiner Neugier auf den Buchstaben Qoppa. Ein Buchstabe, der in der altgriechischen Schrift existierte, aber im Laufe der Zeit verloren ging. Was mich beeindruckte, war, dass er nicht vollständig verschwand – er tauchte als Q im lateinischen Alphabet wieder auf. Dieser Kreislauf aus Verlust und Transformation erinnerte mich an viele Dinge, die wir kulturell und persönlich in uns tragen. Gerade als Grieche habe ich das Gefühl, dass vieles, was uns ausmacht, irgendwo aus der Vergangenheit stammt, auch wenn wir es heute anders sehen. Musik ist keine Erzählung – sie ist eine Möglichkeit, das Verlorene zu hören und es vielleicht mit einer anderen Stimme wiederzuerkennen.“ (Yannis Kouroudis)

L’ Anima String Quartet

L’ Anima String Quartet consists of Stella Tsani (violin), Brunilda - Eugenia Malo (violin), Elias Sdoukos (viola) and Lefki Kolovou (cello). It was formed in April 1996, after several years of collaboration in the Chamber Music class of Tatsis Apostolides at the Athens Conservatory. All four members of L' Anima have been working with the most famous musical ensembles of the country (Athens State Orchestra, Municipality of Athens Symphonic Orchestra, National Symphonic Orchestra of ERT, Orchestra of Colours, Camerata, Greek Contemporary Music Ensembe etc) for a series of years. They have known great success, both in Greece and abroad, recorded several albums and worked with many important conductors and composers from all over the world.

L'Anima has appeared, among others, in some of the most important concert venues in Greece (the Athens and Salonica Concert Hall, the Herodium, the Vergina Archaeological Site, the Presidential Palace, the Maximos Mansion, the Attalus Arcade, the National Gallery etc). They have collaborated with the Ministry of Culture during the “Full Moon Events”. They have collaborated with ATTIKO METRO S.A. to organise a series of concerts in various underground stations in Athens. They have appeared at the Presidential Palace and the Maximos Mansion at the invitation of the Greek Presidency and the Government. Also, they performed in April 2003 at the Attalos Arcade, during the Ceremony for the Expansion of the European Union, attended by all of the leaders and delegates of the EU member-states, invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Greek Presidency of the European Union. They have taken part in several broadcasts of the State Radio and Television, as well as events organised by the 3rd Programme of ERT (the Greek National Radio). The quartet's repertoire includes works from all musical periods, such as Baroque (Boccherini, Bach, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, etc.), Classical (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, etc.), Romantic (Mendelssohn, Schubert, Borodin, Brahms, Dvorak, Faure, Sibelius, etc.), 20th c. (Bartók, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Glazunov, Schuller, etc.), works from Greek composers within thw period 18th - 21st c. (Skalkotas, Antoniou, Sisilianos, Klavas, Papadatos, Konitopoulos, Kanaris, Valet, Kanakis, Hatzis, Stafilakis, Chatzileodiadis, Chatzimichelakis, etc.) and also contemporary and experimental works from young composers. Along with the quartet, more than 20 distinguished soloists have appeared, such as Ch. Zerbinos (accordeon), D. Soukaras (guitar), M. Androulidakis (guitar), T. Gouvelis (piano), K. Destounis (piano), Tz. Manousaki (piano), A. Tkacheva (santouri), J. Georgiadis (violin), E. Nina (cello), M. Katsoura (soprano), K. Theos (cello), A. Kolpodinos (trombone), Z. Tarpagos (flute), etc. In 2011 the first album of L' Anima string quartet was released, entitled “Music for Strings” and consisting of works by Greek composer Savvas Zannas. In September 2014 was released, again from Subways Music, the double album “The String Quartets”, where the L’ Anima string quartet performs all string quartets of the famous Greek composer, Academician and President of the Greek Composers’ Union, Theodore Antoniou. On the four Sundays of February 2016, on the occasion of the 20 years since the founding of the quartet, they organized a great tribute to the Greek string quartet, featuring 19 works by Greek composers from the 19th Century until today.

Since the autumn of 2016 to present, they have been organizing the Chamber Music event “Oinoposies” with the aim of collaborating with distinguished musicians as soloists with L’ Anima, the presentation of many works by remarkable Greek composers, as well as the presentation of a new composer at each concert and the emergence of the huge international repertoire for string quartet. The latest release of the quartet from Irida Production, is the album “String Plus”, which includes works of the Greek composer B. Kanas.

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