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Stella Tsani Violin
Dionyssis Mallouhos Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata for violin and piano No 8 op. 30 No 3, in G
1st mvt Allegro assai
2nd mvt Tempo di Minuetto ma molto moderato e grazioso
3rd mvt Allegro vivace
Robert Schumann:
Sonata for violin and piano No 1 op. 105, in a minor
1st mvt Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
2nd mvt Allegretto
3rd mvt Lebhaf
Franz Schubert:
Sonatina for violin and piano op. posth. 137 No 3 (D 408), in g minor
1st mvt Αllegro giusto
2nd mvt Andante
3rd mvt Menuetto -Trio
4th mvt Allegro moderato
Josef Joachim Raff:
Cavatina for violin & piano, op. 85 No 3
Total time: 73:56
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Dionyssis Mallouhos Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata for violin and piano No 8 op. 30 No 3, in G
1st mvt Allegro assai
2nd mvt Tempo di Minuetto ma molto moderato e grazioso
3rd mvt Allegro vivace
Robert Schumann:
Sonata for violin and piano No 1 op. 105, in a minor
1st mvt Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
2nd mvt Allegretto
3rd mvt Lebhaf
Franz Schubert:
Sonatina for violin and piano op. posth. 137 No 3 (D 408), in g minor
1st mvt Αllegro giusto
2nd mvt Andante
3rd mvt Menuetto -Trio
4th mvt Allegro moderato
Josef Joachim Raff:
Cavatina for violin & piano, op. 85 No 3
Total time: 73:56
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L. v. Beethoven / Sonata 1st mvt |
L. v. Beethoven / Sonata 2nd mvt |
L. v. Beethoven / Sonata 3rd mvt |
R. Schumann / Sonata 1st mvt |
R. Schumann / Sonata 2nd mvt |
R. Schumann / Sonata 3rd mvt |
F. Schubert / Sonatina 1st mvt |
F. Schubert / Sonatina 2nd mvt |
F. Schubert / Sonatina 3rd mvt |
F. Schubert / Sonatina 4th mvt |
J. J. Raff / Cavatina |
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no 8 op. 30 no 3, in G
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 and died in Vienna in 1827. His work is mainly divided into three periods. The first starts from his first creations up until 1802, when he finally achieves a personal style. The second lasts until around 1816, by which time Beethoven is a renowned composer. And the third is determined by the characteristic presence of the romantic element in his music. The sonata in our programme is the third of opus 30. All three sonatas in this opus (he wrote a total of 10 sonatas for violin and piano) were composed in 1802, at the border between the first two periods, when Beethoven's personal musical identity is formed.
The same year, on 16th October 1802, Beethoven sent his brothers a letter with his will, known as the "Heiligenstadt Will" after the holiday resort where Beethoven stayed for a while. He writes, among others: "Oh people, who consider me mean, stubborn and hateful, how you misunderstand me. You do not know of the secret reason that makes me seem so. My heart, since I was a child, was given to the quest for Good. I felt ready to do great deeds. But think, that since 6 years ago, I have been hit by great disaster. It was impossible to me to tell the world "speak louder, shout, for I am deaf!". What a humiliation for me, when someone next to me would hear a flute and I would hear nothing....Such incidents have driven me to despair, a little more and I would put an end to my life. It was only my Art that kept me going. It seemed impossible to leave the world before I gave what I felt was still inside me." And he ends the letter, saying "Farewell then, and do not totally forget me when I'm dead. I deserve this from you, for during my life I thought of you often, and of ways to make you happy.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Heiligenstadt, October 6th, 1802"
Robert Schumann: Sonata for violin and piano No 1 op. 105, in a minor
The sonata for violin and piano Nr.1 in A minor, Opus 105 was composed by German Robert Schumann (Zwickau, 1810 - Endenich, 1856) between the 12th and 16th of September 1851, in Dusseldorf, Germany. He had gone there to work permanently as a musical director, but did not manage to hold his position for many years. The reason was a mental and psychological disorder which broke out during that period of his life and caused him huge problems, both in his professional and personal life, eventually leading him to spend his final years in a psychiatric clinic.Despite this, he continued composing, and as a matter of fact some of his greatest works were written from that period on.
The first performance of the particular sonata was in March 1852 by the great violinist of the time Ferdinand David with the famous piano soloist and Schumann's wife, Clara Wieck.
The sonata is comprised of three parts: a) Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck (with a fiery passion) b) Allegretto and c) Lebhaft (Lively)
The first edition of the sonata was in 1852 by the Hofmeister House, as "Sonata for piano and violin" and not "violin and piano", which is the usual practice. Whether this differenciation was a choice of Schumann or his editor has not been determined. Perhaps it was expressed this way in order to stress that the role of the piano here is not merely accompanying, but equally important to that of the violin.
Franz Schubert: Sonatina for violin and piano op. posth. 137 No 3 (D 408), in g minor
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (Himmelpfortgrund - Lichtental,1797 - Vienna, 1828) composed all three sonatinas for violin and piano in 1816 -aged 19- in Vienna. That period of his life (1814 - 1818) was also his most creative. He had started taking private lessons from the famous composer of the period, Antonio Salieri, the health problems that troubled him later in life had not yet appeared and he did not yet face the enormous financial difficulties which were later to play a decisive role in his life. He had grudgingly accepted a position as a teacher in the school where his father also taught. This job gave him enough to make ends meet, but he soon quit to dedicate himself to music.
The writing of Sonatina No.3 in G minor was probably done in the house of the Schobers, the wealthy family of one of his classmates, which was hosting him on an almost permanent basis. From the moment he left his parents' home he started a "bohemian" period, and this was a way of life he consciously followed until the end of his years.
In this third sonatina of Schubert one can notice three basic musical elements: a) the beginning of German romanticism b) the influence of his tutor, A.Salieri, and c) the composer's strong admiration for Beethoven. These decisive feelings were born in Vienna in 1814, when Schubert (only 17 at the time) watched a performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. Ever since, "beethovenist" elements have been appearing in a major part of Schubert's work.
Josef Joachim Raff: Cavatina for violin & piano op. 85 No 3
German composer Josef Joachim Raff was born in Lachen, Switzerland in 1822 and died in Frankfurt, Germany in 1882. He was a school teacher, but also learnt, mostly by himself, to play the piano and violin and to compose music. In his musical pursuits he was encouraged by his famous friends, Mendelssohn and Liszt. He was fairly popular in his time and his compositions were often successful. His work includes, among others, 11 symphonies, operas, an oratory, a piano concerto, 2 concertos for violin, songs, transcriptions and many pieces of chamber music. Over the years, his music was largely forgotten, except for the beautiful melodic Cavatina for violin and piano, composed in 1859 at Wiesbaden, Germany. It is the third and most popular of the 6 short pieces of chamber music which comprise Opus 85.
Cavatina is simply a diminutive of cavata, a kind of short vocal composition, similar to an aria, which was widely used in the Italian Opera after 1700. Cavatina is mainly characterised by its lyrical and melodical qualities, rather than its dramatic ones.
Stella Tsani
Stella Tsani started playing the violin at the age of 5. She tutored under Tatsis Apostolidis and graduated from his class at the Athens Conservatory with an Honours Mark and First Prize. Since then she has won awards, recorded for radio, television and albums, gave many solo and chamber music concerts and presented many works for the first time.
Since 2003 she has been working as a soloist for the Greek Composers' Union and the Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music under the directions of Theodore Antoniou, Iakovos Konitopoulos, Michalis Oekonomou, Gunther Schuller and Valery Oreshkin.
Also, she spent 5 years as an exarch and soloist of the Paneuropean and Mediterranean Orchestra founded by the international cultural organisation ECUME, performing all around the world.
She has done many recitals, solo performances and tours all around Greece and abroad, especially in countries of Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, appearing in many important venues with many renowned Greek and foreign conductors such as Andreas Pylarinos, Vladimiros Symeonides, Αngelo Guarania, Solhi Al Vadi, Raad Khalaf, Amine Kouider, Guihad Daoud, Elise Gauthier - Villars et al.
She is a founding member of the Ellemis Piano quartet, with which she has recorded her first album consisting of works by Johannes Brahms and Ernest Chausson, and which was released in 2004 and was highly acclaimed by the critics.
In November 2005 Subways Music in collaboration with the Greek Composers' Union released her CD entitled "Hellanion" where, with Elena Chounta on piano, she performs works by N. Skalkottas, M. Kalomiris, T. Antoniou, I. Konitopoulos and L. Kanaris.
In May 2008 Subways released her CD "Live In Athens", which is a live recording of a recital given in Athens accompanied by the famous Canadian pianist Stephen Ham, and which consists of compositions by Brahms, Debussy and Dragatakis. This album was awarded a prize as the best Greek album of 2008 by the Union of Greek Theatrical and Music Critics in a ceremony which took place at the Athens Concert Hall in December 2008
In January 2010 the new album of Ellemis Piano quartet was released, entitled “Eikones” and consisting of works by Robert Schumann, G. F. Händel, G. Caccini, C. Armstrong, N. Mavroudis, L. Kanaris, M. Archontidis and E. Chounta.
Stella Tsani is also the first violin of the L' Anima string quartet, with which she has appeared - among others - at the Presidential Palace and the Maxim Mansion, invited by the Greek Presidency and Government respectively. The same quartet also appeared in April 2003 at the Attalus Arcade, during the ceremony of European Union expansion, in front of 25 leaders and delegations of all EU member-states, invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Greek Presidency of the EU.
Dionyssis Mallouhos
Dionyssis Mallouhos was born in Athens, Greece in 1963.
He graduated from the «Conservatory of Athens» in 1987 under the guidance of Georges Arvanitakis. As is customary in Greece, he has also pursued university level studies in non-musical fields and is a diplomate of the Greek National Polytechnic University with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
With scholarship and financial support from the «Alexander S. Onassis» and «Bakalas» foundations, he studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest (1988-91) with Istvan Gulyas and Màrta Gulyas.
He has performed many times in the Megaron of Music, Greece's finest concert hall and in many other concert halls in Athens and other Greek cities. He has given as well concerts and recitals of chamber music in Budapest, Estergom, Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Indianapolis, at the Festival of Bevagna and in «Villa Reale» of Monza in Italy. In 1992, he gave a special concert in Athens in honor of the Steinway & Sons company's 500,000th piano.
As a soloist he has appeared with the National Orchestra of Athens, the "Kamerata" Orchestra of the Friends of Music, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Thessaloniki, the National Youth Orchestra of Greece, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Athens, the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Athens and the Hungarian «Franz Liszt» Chamber Orchestra (ancient Herod Atticus theater, as part of the Athens Festival '93).
He has recorded solo piano and chamber music works for the Greek T.V. and radio as well as on record albums and CDs (EMI, SONY etc.), concentrating primarily on works by Greek composers.
Since 2003, he is the producer of an everyday radio program in Greece’s only classical radio station «Third Program» of Greek Radio and he is a regular editor at the «Classical Music Review» magazine.
He is teaching piano at the Conservatory of Athens and the Attikon Conservatory and he gives regularly masterclasses in several cities around Greece. Since August 2009, he holds the position of the director in Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata (southern Greece).
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 and died in Vienna in 1827. His work is mainly divided into three periods. The first starts from his first creations up until 1802, when he finally achieves a personal style. The second lasts until around 1816, by which time Beethoven is a renowned composer. And the third is determined by the characteristic presence of the romantic element in his music. The sonata in our programme is the third of opus 30. All three sonatas in this opus (he wrote a total of 10 sonatas for violin and piano) were composed in 1802, at the border between the first two periods, when Beethoven's personal musical identity is formed.
The same year, on 16th October 1802, Beethoven sent his brothers a letter with his will, known as the "Heiligenstadt Will" after the holiday resort where Beethoven stayed for a while. He writes, among others: "Oh people, who consider me mean, stubborn and hateful, how you misunderstand me. You do not know of the secret reason that makes me seem so. My heart, since I was a child, was given to the quest for Good. I felt ready to do great deeds. But think, that since 6 years ago, I have been hit by great disaster. It was impossible to me to tell the world "speak louder, shout, for I am deaf!". What a humiliation for me, when someone next to me would hear a flute and I would hear nothing....Such incidents have driven me to despair, a little more and I would put an end to my life. It was only my Art that kept me going. It seemed impossible to leave the world before I gave what I felt was still inside me." And he ends the letter, saying "Farewell then, and do not totally forget me when I'm dead. I deserve this from you, for during my life I thought of you often, and of ways to make you happy.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Heiligenstadt, October 6th, 1802"
Robert Schumann: Sonata for violin and piano No 1 op. 105, in a minor
The sonata for violin and piano Nr.1 in A minor, Opus 105 was composed by German Robert Schumann (Zwickau, 1810 - Endenich, 1856) between the 12th and 16th of September 1851, in Dusseldorf, Germany. He had gone there to work permanently as a musical director, but did not manage to hold his position for many years. The reason was a mental and psychological disorder which broke out during that period of his life and caused him huge problems, both in his professional and personal life, eventually leading him to spend his final years in a psychiatric clinic.Despite this, he continued composing, and as a matter of fact some of his greatest works were written from that period on.
The first performance of the particular sonata was in March 1852 by the great violinist of the time Ferdinand David with the famous piano soloist and Schumann's wife, Clara Wieck.
The sonata is comprised of three parts: a) Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck (with a fiery passion) b) Allegretto and c) Lebhaft (Lively)
The first edition of the sonata was in 1852 by the Hofmeister House, as "Sonata for piano and violin" and not "violin and piano", which is the usual practice. Whether this differenciation was a choice of Schumann or his editor has not been determined. Perhaps it was expressed this way in order to stress that the role of the piano here is not merely accompanying, but equally important to that of the violin.
Franz Schubert: Sonatina for violin and piano op. posth. 137 No 3 (D 408), in g minor
Austrian composer Franz Schubert (Himmelpfortgrund - Lichtental,1797 - Vienna, 1828) composed all three sonatinas for violin and piano in 1816 -aged 19- in Vienna. That period of his life (1814 - 1818) was also his most creative. He had started taking private lessons from the famous composer of the period, Antonio Salieri, the health problems that troubled him later in life had not yet appeared and he did not yet face the enormous financial difficulties which were later to play a decisive role in his life. He had grudgingly accepted a position as a teacher in the school where his father also taught. This job gave him enough to make ends meet, but he soon quit to dedicate himself to music.
The writing of Sonatina No.3 in G minor was probably done in the house of the Schobers, the wealthy family of one of his classmates, which was hosting him on an almost permanent basis. From the moment he left his parents' home he started a "bohemian" period, and this was a way of life he consciously followed until the end of his years.
In this third sonatina of Schubert one can notice three basic musical elements: a) the beginning of German romanticism b) the influence of his tutor, A.Salieri, and c) the composer's strong admiration for Beethoven. These decisive feelings were born in Vienna in 1814, when Schubert (only 17 at the time) watched a performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio. Ever since, "beethovenist" elements have been appearing in a major part of Schubert's work.
Josef Joachim Raff: Cavatina for violin & piano op. 85 No 3
German composer Josef Joachim Raff was born in Lachen, Switzerland in 1822 and died in Frankfurt, Germany in 1882. He was a school teacher, but also learnt, mostly by himself, to play the piano and violin and to compose music. In his musical pursuits he was encouraged by his famous friends, Mendelssohn and Liszt. He was fairly popular in his time and his compositions were often successful. His work includes, among others, 11 symphonies, operas, an oratory, a piano concerto, 2 concertos for violin, songs, transcriptions and many pieces of chamber music. Over the years, his music was largely forgotten, except for the beautiful melodic Cavatina for violin and piano, composed in 1859 at Wiesbaden, Germany. It is the third and most popular of the 6 short pieces of chamber music which comprise Opus 85.
Cavatina is simply a diminutive of cavata, a kind of short vocal composition, similar to an aria, which was widely used in the Italian Opera after 1700. Cavatina is mainly characterised by its lyrical and melodical qualities, rather than its dramatic ones.
Stella Tsani
Stella Tsani started playing the violin at the age of 5. She tutored under Tatsis Apostolidis and graduated from his class at the Athens Conservatory with an Honours Mark and First Prize. Since then she has won awards, recorded for radio, television and albums, gave many solo and chamber music concerts and presented many works for the first time.
Since 2003 she has been working as a soloist for the Greek Composers' Union and the Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music under the directions of Theodore Antoniou, Iakovos Konitopoulos, Michalis Oekonomou, Gunther Schuller and Valery Oreshkin.
Also, she spent 5 years as an exarch and soloist of the Paneuropean and Mediterranean Orchestra founded by the international cultural organisation ECUME, performing all around the world.
She has done many recitals, solo performances and tours all around Greece and abroad, especially in countries of Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, appearing in many important venues with many renowned Greek and foreign conductors such as Andreas Pylarinos, Vladimiros Symeonides, Αngelo Guarania, Solhi Al Vadi, Raad Khalaf, Amine Kouider, Guihad Daoud, Elise Gauthier - Villars et al.
She is a founding member of the Ellemis Piano quartet, with which she has recorded her first album consisting of works by Johannes Brahms and Ernest Chausson, and which was released in 2004 and was highly acclaimed by the critics.
In November 2005 Subways Music in collaboration with the Greek Composers' Union released her CD entitled "Hellanion" where, with Elena Chounta on piano, she performs works by N. Skalkottas, M. Kalomiris, T. Antoniou, I. Konitopoulos and L. Kanaris.
In May 2008 Subways released her CD "Live In Athens", which is a live recording of a recital given in Athens accompanied by the famous Canadian pianist Stephen Ham, and which consists of compositions by Brahms, Debussy and Dragatakis. This album was awarded a prize as the best Greek album of 2008 by the Union of Greek Theatrical and Music Critics in a ceremony which took place at the Athens Concert Hall in December 2008
In January 2010 the new album of Ellemis Piano quartet was released, entitled “Eikones” and consisting of works by Robert Schumann, G. F. Händel, G. Caccini, C. Armstrong, N. Mavroudis, L. Kanaris, M. Archontidis and E. Chounta.
Stella Tsani is also the first violin of the L' Anima string quartet, with which she has appeared - among others - at the Presidential Palace and the Maxim Mansion, invited by the Greek Presidency and Government respectively. The same quartet also appeared in April 2003 at the Attalus Arcade, during the ceremony of European Union expansion, in front of 25 leaders and delegations of all EU member-states, invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Greek Presidency of the EU.
Dionyssis Mallouhos
Dionyssis Mallouhos was born in Athens, Greece in 1963.
He graduated from the «Conservatory of Athens» in 1987 under the guidance of Georges Arvanitakis. As is customary in Greece, he has also pursued university level studies in non-musical fields and is a diplomate of the Greek National Polytechnic University with a degree in Chemical Engineering.
With scholarship and financial support from the «Alexander S. Onassis» and «Bakalas» foundations, he studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest (1988-91) with Istvan Gulyas and Màrta Gulyas.
He has performed many times in the Megaron of Music, Greece's finest concert hall and in many other concert halls in Athens and other Greek cities. He has given as well concerts and recitals of chamber music in Budapest, Estergom, Monte Carlo, Paris, Berlin, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Indianapolis, at the Festival of Bevagna and in «Villa Reale» of Monza in Italy. In 1992, he gave a special concert in Athens in honor of the Steinway & Sons company's 500,000th piano.
As a soloist he has appeared with the National Orchestra of Athens, the "Kamerata" Orchestra of the Friends of Music, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Thessaloniki, the National Youth Orchestra of Greece, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Athens, the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Athens and the Hungarian «Franz Liszt» Chamber Orchestra (ancient Herod Atticus theater, as part of the Athens Festival '93).
He has recorded solo piano and chamber music works for the Greek T.V. and radio as well as on record albums and CDs (EMI, SONY etc.), concentrating primarily on works by Greek composers.
Since 2003, he is the producer of an everyday radio program in Greece’s only classical radio station «Third Program» of Greek Radio and he is a regular editor at the «Classical Music Review» magazine.
He is teaching piano at the Conservatory of Athens and the Attikon Conservatory and he gives regularly masterclasses in several cities around Greece. Since August 2009, he holds the position of the director in Municipal Conservatory of Kalamata (southern Greece).