December 2013

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03 Dec Basil Athanasiadis – Utakata

Work for violin and 20-stringed koto. Stelios Chatziiosifidis (violin), Keiko Hisamoto (koto). Recorded at Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in March 2013. Engineered by Toru Kamekawa.   Utakata (泡沫) is a Japanese word difficult to translate in Engilsh. It means a bubble on ‘surface of liquid’ and…

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03 Dec Basil Athanasiadis – Book of Dreams

Work for flute and prepared piano in nine movements Taka Masuda (flute), Junko Nakamura (piano). Recorded at the Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in April 2013 engineered by Toru Kamekawa.   “Whether a dream is a thought. Whether dreaming is thinking about something. Suppose you look on…

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03 Dec Basil Athanasiadis – Ko-uta

A work for female voice, sho and violin in four movements. Shie Shoji (voice), Naomi Sato (sho), Momoko Yamada (violin). Recorded at Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in August 2013, engineered by Toru Kamekawa.   In 2006 I composed the song cycle ‘Little Songs of the Geisha’…

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