Athens State Orchestra – Byron Fidetzis
Mikis Theodorakis: 85th Anniversary Tribute
In his Fourth Symphony (1987), Theodorakis seeks to combine two genres in which he had many years of experience: symphony and stage music for ancient drama. He had already employed the spoken word as a functional, non-musical element in his First Symphony (1953), while the three symphonies that followed would all feature words set to music. Indeed, the composer had been debating the degree to which ancient texts should be sung rather than recited since 1960, when he wrote the music for a staging of The Phoenician Women. Here he solves this issue by incorporating the ancient chorus text into the symphony, a path which will later lead to the composition of his lyrical tragedies.
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