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Apostolos Palios Also available GREEK CLASSICS Born in in 1979, the pianist Apostolos Palios graduated from the Berlin Hanns Eisler Music Academy and the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music Academy, where he received his master’s and soloist diploma with distinction. He studied musicology at the University of and is currently Loris working towards a dissertation examining the piano compositions of Loris Margaritis. He has received lessons from distinguished artists including Aldo Ciccolini, Murray Perahia, Cyprien Katsaris, Yonty Solomon and George MARGARITIS Photo: Xaris Akriviadis Hadjinikos, and won many scholarships. He is the prizewinner of several National and International Piano, Chamber Music and Composition Competitions in Greece, Germany, Spain and Italy. He is also the scholarship winner of the Etude No. 1 2006 Gina Bachauer Prize piano competition. From the Academy of Athens he has received a special award and won the prestigious Best Greek Young Artist of Greek Rhapsody the Year 2007 award from the Association of Greek Critics for Drama and Music. His career has taken him to the most important concert halls in the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus and New York Carnegie Youth Hall. He has also participated in recordings and given the first world performances of various piano works. He is a member of the Aurora (Piano) Verses for Piano Quartet of Germany and the Ergon Ensemble for modern music. Sonatina Two Greek Pastorals 8.572235 Felix PETYREK Six Greek Rhapsodies

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Loris Felix Greek Piano Music creating abstract musical images in which one may Petyrek had already composed many works for suppose they represent the borderlines between the piano, chamber music, stage works and compositions for MARGARITIS PETYREK Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis (1895-1953) Homer’s Odyssey, was performed at the Vienna Opera, external world and the emotions. vocal ensembles, and until 1926 he gave many concerts (1895-1953) (1892-1951) conducted by Hugo Reichenberger. Six months before In the two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 No. 1 and No. 2, in Germany, where he was associated with the musical Two Early Compositions 4:37 Six Greek Rhapsodies (1927) 17:20 Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis was born in Aigion, Kristalnacht in April 1938 Margaritis’s courses at the Margaritis projects the bucolic transparency of the avant-garde. In summer 1926 he was invited to teach Achaia, Greece. He was a distinguished Greek Mozarteum were officially abolished. After the Nazi Arcadian world inspired by Debussy. The polyrhythmic piano and composition at Athens Conservatory. With his 1 Etude No. 1 (1901) 1:26 ( Athens 1:21 composer, performer and music-educator. As an infant invasion of Thessaloniki on 9th April 1941 Margaritis structure and the coloristic effects arise from a different friend from his Berlin days, , he 2 Greek Rhapsody (1902) 3:11 ) Euboea 2:14 prodigy he won fame playing his own piano and his wife faced serious problems with the Gestapo, world reflecting the sounds of a lost ideal topos, a kind organized various concerts in Athens and Salzburg in the ¡ Complaint 3:03 compositions at the age of nine in the accused of having contacts with the Greek partisans. In of mystical Humanism. Et in Arcadia ego. following years. From 1930 to 1950, after his Greek Youth, Op. 4 (1908-1921) 15:59 ™ Dance around the hobbyhorse 3:00 Concert Hall in Munich. Thomas Mann was also present 1942 they escaped to Athens. There they found adventure, Petyrek taught successively at the Music 3 Scherzo 2:04 £ Delphian Rhapsody 3:19 during this concert and wrote on this occasion his protection from prominent intellectuals. After the end of Konstantinos D Kakavelakis Academies of Stuttgart, Leipzig and Vienna. In 1950 he 4 Sketch 1:23 ¢ Serenade of the robber band 4:23 romance Das Wunderkind. Margaritis studied in Berlin the war Loris and Ida never returned to live permanently was awarded the State Prize of Music. He died and Munich and had associations with important in Thessaloniki. In 1948 Bernhard Paumgartner invited on 1st December 1951. 5 Carnival, ‘Letter from Munich’ 3:38 personalities of the time, including Bernhard Margaritis to the Mozarteum Summer Academy again. Felix Petyrek (1892-1951): On 1st June 1927 Petyrek wrote to his friend Hans 6 In Tuning, ‘Humoreske’ 2:05 Stavenhagen, Joseph Joachim, Felix Mottl, Robert Kahn This last fruitful period until his death in 1953 was Six Greek Rhapsodies Reinhart: “I composed at the end of May six Greek 7 Triptych: Morning Twilight 1:42 and . After his return to Greece around dedicated to music education, piano pedagogy and piano pieces in a quite modern style by using local 8 Triptych: Intermezzo 0:26 1915 Margaritis collaborated in Thessaloniki with music philosophy. Felix Petyrek was born in the city of Brno, then in scales and structural principles. Some people describe 9 Triptych: Evening 1:55 Aimilios Riades, a pupil of Maurice Ravel, in the The two pieces chosen from some 27 childhood Austria, on 14th May 1892, and grew up in Vienna. He them as my best work. I would like them to be published consolidation of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki compositions illustrate the imagination of a nine-year- received his basic musical training from his father, very soon”. The world première took place with the 0 A few drops Orsay 0:27 and its Symphony Orchestra. Margaritis cultivated a old child who tries to bring to life something lost and August, a concert organist. He studied at the Vienna composer himself as pianist in September 1927 at ! Benedictine 0:46 new spirit of music-universalism, reinvestigating the obscure. Music Academy under Leopold Godowsky and Emil Dornach in Switzerland. In Germany the Greek @ Lullaby 1:33 delicate balance between German romanticism, In his first collected educational piano volume von Sauer (piano), Franz Schreker (composition), and at Rhapsodies were first performed in Berlin on 9th April impressionism, and a disengaged modernism in a multi- Youth, composed circa 1915, Margaritis wished to the Philosophy Department of Vienna University with 1930 by the Greek pianist Marika Papaioanou. In # Sonatina, Op. 5 (1922) 6:41 layered sound context. regenerate Schumann’s vision for music and technique. Guido Adler. During his military service (1915-1918) as Athens these new compositions had been already Felix Petyrek visited Margaritis in Thessaloniki and The imaginary narration as an element in a puzzle a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp he collected folk- presented at the Conservatory concert hall in December Verses for Piano (Tondichtung), reported his positive impressions in a local newspaper. correlates with ten musical episodes of real life with songs from different East European traditions, published 1929. The Greek music press described the work as He decided also as concertmaster to perform different melodic reminiscences. by Universal Edition. After his graduation with honours ‘extremely interesting’: “His new composition is based Op. 10 (1923) 5:39 Margaritis’s piano works at the Mozarteum. In 1925 In his Sonatina, Op. 5, written seven years later in in 1919 he became a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum on Greek and Russian themes, but on the other hand $ Concert Study, ‘North Wind’ (Boreas) 2:28 Margaritis married his student Ida Rosenkranz in 1922, Margaritis builds a highly structured abbreviated Music Academy. After moving in 1921 to Berlin and they sound very modern” (Chronics). % Ray of Hope 2:06 Thessaloniki, an orphan Austrian-Jewish girl. Together sonata with a clear melodic content which is based on later to Aclesheim in Switzerland, Petyrek moved to ^ Wakening 1:06 they created a piano duo and performed to great acclaim three different groups of melodic rows with three Abbazia (Opatija, Croatia) and founded there and in Lisa Mahn across Europe. Their house in Thessaloniki was the different meanings and implications. Between the Salzburg summer courses for piano and composition. Two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 (1927) 5:15 centre of contemporary musical activities and the host variations of these main melodies he inserts brief bridge There he met Loris Margaritis, with whom he developed of inspirational musical events. In 1928 Loris Margaritis passages with reminiscences of the main rhythmical a deep friendship. & No. 1 2:42 taught the piano at the Mozart Summer Academy in elements and melodic allusions. * No. 2 2:33 Salzburg and later became a jury-member of the In his next composition Verses for Piano, Op. 10, Fryderyk Chopin, Vienna Music Academy and Geneva written a year later, Margaritis worked hard with his International Piano Competitions. In 1930 he received Austrian friend, the poet and choreographer J. Scheider, Scores provided by the Margaritis Archive, Athens recognition with a prestigious award from the Vienna to transform his poetry into music without setting the Welt Musik und Sangesbundes for his commitment as a words to music. Margaritis, who was very familiar with composer, performer and educator. the German tradition of the tone-poem, went more In 1931 Margaritis’s Epic Symphony, based on deeply into the musical transfer of poetic meaning,

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Loris Felix Greek Piano Music creating abstract musical images in which one may Petyrek had already composed many works for suppose they represent the borderlines between the piano, chamber music, stage works and compositions for MARGARITIS PETYREK Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis (1895-1953) Homer’s Odyssey, was performed at the Vienna Opera, external world and the emotions. vocal ensembles, and until 1926 he gave many concerts (1895-1953) (1892-1951) conducted by Hugo Reichenberger. Six months before In the two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 No. 1 and No. 2, in Germany, where he was associated with the musical Two Early Compositions 4:37 Six Greek Rhapsodies (1927) 17:20 Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis was born in Aigion, Kristalnacht in April 1938 Margaritis’s courses at the Margaritis projects the bucolic transparency of the avant-garde. In summer 1926 he was invited to teach Achaia, Greece. He was a distinguished Greek Mozarteum were officially abolished. After the Nazi Arcadian world inspired by Debussy. The polyrhythmic piano and composition at Athens Conservatory. With his 1 Etude No. 1 (1901) 1:26 ( Athens 1:21 composer, performer and music-educator. As an infant invasion of Thessaloniki on 9th April 1941 Margaritis structure and the coloristic effects arise from a different friend from his Berlin days, Dimitri Mitropoulos, he 2 Greek Rhapsody (1902) 3:11 ) Euboea 2:14 prodigy he won fame playing his own piano and his wife faced serious problems with the Gestapo, world reflecting the sounds of a lost ideal topos, a kind organized various concerts in Athens and Salzburg in the ¡ Complaint 3:03 compositions at the age of nine in the Richard Wagner accused of having contacts with the Greek partisans. In of mystical Humanism. Et in Arcadia ego. following years. From 1930 to 1950, after his Greek Youth, Op. 4 (1908-1921) 15:59 ™ Dance around the hobbyhorse 3:00 Concert Hall in Munich. Thomas Mann was also present 1942 they escaped to Athens. There they found adventure, Petyrek taught successively at the Music 3 Scherzo 2:04 £ Delphian Rhapsody 3:19 during this concert and wrote on this occasion his protection from prominent intellectuals. After the end of Konstantinos D Kakavelakis Academies of Stuttgart, Leipzig and Vienna. In 1950 he 4 Sketch 1:23 ¢ Serenade of the robber band 4:23 romance Das Wunderkind. Margaritis studied in Berlin the war Loris and Ida never returned to live permanently was awarded the Austria State Prize of Music. He died and Munich and had associations with important in Thessaloniki. In 1948 Bernhard Paumgartner invited on 1st December 1951. 5 Carnival, ‘Letter from Munich’ 3:38 personalities of the time, including Bernhard Margaritis to the Mozarteum Summer Academy again. Felix Petyrek (1892-1951): On 1st June 1927 Petyrek wrote to his friend Hans 6 In Tuning, ‘Humoreske’ 2:05 Stavenhagen, Joseph Joachim, Felix Mottl, Robert Kahn This last fruitful period until his death in 1953 was Six Greek Rhapsodies Reinhart: “I composed at the end of May six Greek 7 Triptych: Morning Twilight 1:42 and Bruno Walter. After his return to Greece around dedicated to music education, piano pedagogy and piano pieces in a quite modern style by using local 8 Triptych: Intermezzo 0:26 1915 Margaritis collaborated in Thessaloniki with music philosophy. Felix Petyrek was born in the city of Brno, then in scales and structural principles. Some people describe 9 Triptych: Evening 1:55 Aimilios Riades, a pupil of Maurice Ravel, in the The two pieces chosen from some 27 childhood Austria, on 14th May 1892, and grew up in Vienna. He them as my best work. I would like them to be published consolidation of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki compositions illustrate the imagination of a nine-year- received his basic musical training from his father, very soon”. The world première took place with the 0 A few drops Orsay 0:27 and its Symphony Orchestra. Margaritis cultivated a old child who tries to bring to life something lost and August, a concert organist. He studied at the Vienna composer himself as pianist in September 1927 at ! Benedictine 0:46 new spirit of music-universalism, reinvestigating the obscure. Music Academy under Leopold Godowsky and Emil Dornach in Switzerland. In Germany the Greek @ Lullaby 1:33 delicate balance between German romanticism, In his first collected educational piano volume von Sauer (piano), Franz Schreker (composition), and at Rhapsodies were first performed in Berlin on 9th April impressionism, and a disengaged modernism in a multi- Youth, composed circa 1915, Margaritis wished to the Philosophy Department of Vienna University with 1930 by the Greek pianist Marika Papaioanou. In # Sonatina, Op. 5 (1922) 6:41 layered sound context. regenerate Schumann’s vision for music and technique. Guido Adler. During his military service (1915-1918) as Athens these new compositions had been already Felix Petyrek visited Margaritis in Thessaloniki and The imaginary narration as an element in a puzzle a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp he collected folk- presented at the Conservatory concert hall in December Verses for Piano (Tondichtung), reported his positive impressions in a local newspaper. correlates with ten musical episodes of real life with songs from different East European traditions, published 1929. The Greek music press described the work as He decided also as concertmaster to perform different melodic reminiscences. by Universal Edition. After his graduation with honours ‘extremely interesting’: “His new composition is based Op. 10 (1923) 5:39 Margaritis’s piano works at the Mozarteum. In 1925 In his Sonatina, Op. 5, written seven years later in in 1919 he became a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum on Greek and Russian themes, but on the other hand $ Concert Study, ‘North Wind’ (Boreas) 2:28 Margaritis married his student Ida Rosenkranz in 1922, Margaritis builds a highly structured abbreviated Music Academy. After moving in 1921 to Berlin and they sound very modern” (Chronics). % Ray of Hope 2:06 Thessaloniki, an orphan Austrian-Jewish girl. Together sonata with a clear melodic content which is based on later to Aclesheim in Switzerland, Petyrek moved to ^ Wakening 1:06 they created a piano duo and performed to great acclaim three different groups of melodic rows with three Abbazia (Opatija, Croatia) and founded there and in Lisa Mahn across Europe. Their house in Thessaloniki was the different meanings and implications. Between the Salzburg summer courses for piano and composition. Two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 (1927) 5:15 centre of contemporary musical activities and the host variations of these main melodies he inserts brief bridge There he met Loris Margaritis, with whom he developed of inspirational musical events. In 1928 Loris Margaritis passages with reminiscences of the main rhythmical a deep friendship. & No. 1 2:42 taught the piano at the Mozart Summer Academy in elements and melodic allusions. * No. 2 2:33 Salzburg and later became a jury-member of the In his next composition Verses for Piano, Op. 10, Fryderyk Chopin, Vienna Music Academy and Geneva written a year later, Margaritis worked hard with his International Piano Competitions. In 1930 he received Austrian friend, the poet and choreographer J. Scheider, Scores provided by the Margaritis Archive, Athens recognition with a prestigious award from the Vienna to transform his poetry into music without setting the Welt Musik und Sangesbundes for his commitment as a words to music. Margaritis, who was very familiar with composer, performer and educator. the German tradition of the tone-poem, went more In 1931 Margaritis’s Epic Symphony, based on deeply into the musical transfer of poetic meaning,

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Loris Felix Greek Piano Music creating abstract musical images in which one may Petyrek had already composed many works for suppose they represent the borderlines between the piano, chamber music, stage works and compositions for MARGARITIS PETYREK Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis (1895-1953) Homer’s Odyssey, was performed at the Vienna Opera, external world and the emotions. vocal ensembles, and until 1926 he gave many concerts (1895-1953) (1892-1951) conducted by Hugo Reichenberger. Six months before In the two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 No. 1 and No. 2, in Germany, where he was associated with the musical Two Early Compositions 4:37 Six Greek Rhapsodies (1927) 17:20 Loris (Lykourgos) Margaritis was born in Aigion, Kristalnacht in April 1938 Margaritis’s courses at the Margaritis projects the bucolic transparency of the avant-garde. In summer 1926 he was invited to teach Achaia, Greece. He was a distinguished Greek Mozarteum were officially abolished. After the Nazi Arcadian world inspired by Debussy. The polyrhythmic piano and composition at Athens Conservatory. With his 1 Etude No. 1 (1901) 1:26 ( Athens 1:21 composer, performer and music-educator. As an infant invasion of Thessaloniki on 9th April 1941 Margaritis structure and the coloristic effects arise from a different friend from his Berlin days, Dimitri Mitropoulos, he 2 Greek Rhapsody (1902) 3:11 ) Euboea 2:14 prodigy he won fame playing his own piano and his wife faced serious problems with the Gestapo, world reflecting the sounds of a lost ideal topos, a kind organized various concerts in Athens and Salzburg in the ¡ Complaint 3:03 compositions at the age of nine in the Richard Wagner accused of having contacts with the Greek partisans. In of mystical Humanism. Et in Arcadia ego. following years. From 1930 to 1950, after his Greek Youth, Op. 4 (1908-1921) 15:59 ™ Dance around the hobbyhorse 3:00 Concert Hall in Munich. Thomas Mann was also present 1942 they escaped to Athens. There they found adventure, Petyrek taught successively at the Music 3 Scherzo 2:04 £ Delphian Rhapsody 3:19 during this concert and wrote on this occasion his protection from prominent intellectuals. After the end of Konstantinos D Kakavelakis Academies of Stuttgart, Leipzig and Vienna. In 1950 he 4 Sketch 1:23 ¢ Serenade of the robber band 4:23 romance Das Wunderkind. Margaritis studied in Berlin the war Loris and Ida never returned to live permanently was awarded the Austria State Prize of Music. He died and Munich and had associations with important in Thessaloniki. In 1948 Bernhard Paumgartner invited on 1st December 1951. 5 Carnival, ‘Letter from Munich’ 3:38 personalities of the time, including Bernhard Margaritis to the Mozarteum Summer Academy again. Felix Petyrek (1892-1951): On 1st June 1927 Petyrek wrote to his friend Hans 6 In Tuning, ‘Humoreske’ 2:05 Stavenhagen, Joseph Joachim, Felix Mottl, Robert Kahn This last fruitful period until his death in 1953 was Six Greek Rhapsodies Reinhart: “I composed at the end of May six Greek 7 Triptych: Morning Twilight 1:42 and Bruno Walter. After his return to Greece around dedicated to music education, piano pedagogy and piano pieces in a quite modern style by using local 8 Triptych: Intermezzo 0:26 1915 Margaritis collaborated in Thessaloniki with music philosophy. Felix Petyrek was born in the city of Brno, then in scales and structural principles. Some people describe 9 Triptych: Evening 1:55 Aimilios Riades, a pupil of Maurice Ravel, in the The two pieces chosen from some 27 childhood Austria, on 14th May 1892, and grew up in Vienna. He them as my best work. I would like them to be published consolidation of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki compositions illustrate the imagination of a nine-year- received his basic musical training from his father, very soon”. The world première took place with the 0 A few drops Orsay 0:27 and its Symphony Orchestra. Margaritis cultivated a old child who tries to bring to life something lost and August, a concert organist. He studied at the Vienna composer himself as pianist in September 1927 at ! Benedictine 0:46 new spirit of music-universalism, reinvestigating the obscure. Music Academy under Leopold Godowsky and Emil Dornach in Switzerland. In Germany the Greek @ Lullaby 1:33 delicate balance between German romanticism, In his first collected educational piano volume von Sauer (piano), Franz Schreker (composition), and at Rhapsodies were first performed in Berlin on 9th April impressionism, and a disengaged modernism in a multi- Youth, composed circa 1915, Margaritis wished to the Philosophy Department of Vienna University with 1930 by the Greek pianist Marika Papaioanou. In # Sonatina, Op. 5 (1922) 6:41 layered sound context. regenerate Schumann’s vision for music and technique. Guido Adler. During his military service (1915-1918) as Athens these new compositions had been already Felix Petyrek visited Margaritis in Thessaloniki and The imaginary narration as an element in a puzzle a guard in a prisoner-of-war camp he collected folk- presented at the Conservatory concert hall in December Verses for Piano (Tondichtung), reported his positive impressions in a local newspaper. correlates with ten musical episodes of real life with songs from different East European traditions, published 1929. The Greek music press described the work as He decided also as concertmaster to perform different melodic reminiscences. by Universal Edition. After his graduation with honours ‘extremely interesting’: “His new composition is based Op. 10 (1923) 5:39 Margaritis’s piano works at the Mozarteum. In 1925 In his Sonatina, Op. 5, written seven years later in in 1919 he became a teacher at the Salzburg Mozarteum on Greek and Russian themes, but on the other hand $ Concert Study, ‘North Wind’ (Boreas) 2:28 Margaritis married his student Ida Rosenkranz in 1922, Margaritis builds a highly structured abbreviated Music Academy. After moving in 1921 to Berlin and they sound very modern” (Chronics). % Ray of Hope 2:06 Thessaloniki, an orphan Austrian-Jewish girl. Together sonata with a clear melodic content which is based on later to Aclesheim in Switzerland, Petyrek moved to ^ Wakening 1:06 they created a piano duo and performed to great acclaim three different groups of melodic rows with three Abbazia (Opatija, Croatia) and founded there and in Lisa Mahn across Europe. Their house in Thessaloniki was the different meanings and implications. Between the Salzburg summer courses for piano and composition. Two Greek Pastorals, Op. 18 (1927) 5:15 centre of contemporary musical activities and the host variations of these main melodies he inserts brief bridge There he met Loris Margaritis, with whom he developed of inspirational musical events. In 1928 Loris Margaritis passages with reminiscences of the main rhythmical a deep friendship. & No. 1 2:42 taught the piano at the Mozart Summer Academy in elements and melodic allusions. * No. 2 2:33 Salzburg and later became a jury-member of the In his next composition Verses for Piano, Op. 10, Fryderyk Chopin, Vienna Music Academy and Geneva written a year later, Margaritis worked hard with his International Piano Competitions. In 1930 he received Austrian friend, the poet and choreographer J. Scheider, Scores provided by the Margaritis Archive, Athens recognition with a prestigious award from the Vienna to transform his poetry into music without setting the Welt Musik und Sangesbundes for his commitment as a words to music. Margaritis, who was very familiar with composer, performer and educator. the German tradition of the tone-poem, went more In 1931 Margaritis’s Epic Symphony, based on deeply into the musical transfer of poetic meaning,

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Apostolos Palios Also available GREEK CLASSICS Born in Greece in 1979, the pianist Apostolos Palios graduated from the Berlin Hanns Eisler Music Academy and the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music Academy, where he received his master’s and soloist diploma with distinction. He studied musicology at the University of Athens and is currently Loris working towards a dissertation examining the piano compositions of Loris Margaritis. He has received lessons from distinguished artists including Aldo Ciccolini, Murray Perahia, Cyprien Katsaris, Yonty Solomon and George MARGARITIS Photo: Xaris Akriviadis Hadjinikos, and won many scholarships. He is the prizewinner of several National and International Piano, Chamber Music and Composition Competitions in Greece, Germany, Spain and Italy. He is also the scholarship winner of the Etude No. 1 2006 Gina Bachauer Prize piano competition. From the Academy of Athens he has received a special award and won the prestigious Best Greek Young Artist of Greek Rhapsody the Year 2007 award from the Association of Greek Critics for Drama and Music. His career has taken him to the most important concert halls in the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus and New York Carnegie Youth Hall. He has also participated in recordings and given the first world performances of various piano works. He is a member of the Aurora (Piano) Verses for Piano Quartet of Germany and the Ergon Ensemble for modern music. Sonatina Two Greek Pastorals 8.572235 Felix PETYREK Six Greek Rhapsodies

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Apostolos Palios Also available GREEK CLASSICS Born in Greece in 1979, the pianist Apostolos Palios graduated from the Berlin Hanns Eisler Music Academy and the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music Academy, where he received his master’s and soloist diploma with distinction. He studied musicology at the University of Athens and is currently Loris working towards a dissertation examining the piano compositions of Loris Margaritis. He has received lessons from distinguished artists including Aldo Ciccolini, Murray Perahia, Cyprien Katsaris, Yonty Solomon and George MARGARITIS Photo: Xaris Akriviadis Hadjinikos, and won many scholarships. He is the prizewinner of several National and International Piano, Chamber Music and Composition Competitions in Greece, Germany, Spain and Italy. He is also the scholarship winner of the Etude No. 1 2006 Gina Bachauer Prize piano competition. From the Academy of Athens he has received a special award and won the prestigious Best Greek Young Artist of Greek Rhapsody the Year 2007 award from the Association of Greek Critics for Drama and Music. His career has taken him to the most important concert halls in the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus and New York Carnegie Youth Hall. He has also participated in recordings and given the first world performances of various piano works. He is a member of the Aurora (Piano) Verses for Piano Quartet of Germany and the Ergon Ensemble for modern music. Sonatina Two Greek Pastorals 8.572235 Felix PETYREK Six Greek Rhapsodies

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(1892-1951) 2010 Naxos Rights International Ltd. (-¢ Six Greek Rhapsodies (1927) 17:20 Apostolos Palios, Piano With the kind permission of the Loris Margaritis Archive A full track list can be found on page 2 of the booklet Recorded at Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) Recording Centre, Athens, Greece, on 5th and 6th June, 2008 • Scores provided by the Margaritis Archive, Athens 8.572210 Director: Nikos Espialidis • Engineer: Andreas Mandopoulos 8.572210 Assistant engineers: Alex Aretaios and George Mathioudakis • Editing and mastering: Peter DePian Booklet notes: Konstantinos D. Kakavelakis and Lisa Mahn Cover photo: The Holy Monastery of Roussanou, Metéora, by ollirg (iStockphoto.com)