Small Ensemble Cello,Clarinet,Flute,Low Voice,Piano Accompaniment,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.886683 Composed by Panagiotis Theodossiou. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score and parts. 52 pages. Panagiotis Theodossiou #3213757. Published by Panagiotis Theodossiou (A0.886683). Two Rivers (from Lethe to Mnemosyne) for mezzo soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2008)I. Lethe, the Water of Obliviona. The Guardiansb. Night Procession and LamentII. Mnemosyne, the Water of Remembrancea. Invocationb. IncantationThe work is written between September and December 2008 for mezzo soprano Angelica Cathariou and the Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music under Valery Oreshkin. It is based on an excerpt of an ancient greek funerary inscription of 4th century B.C. found at the Trofonius Oracle in Petilia, South Italy.Γης παις ειμί και ουÏανοÏ, αστεÏόεντος. Î‘Ï…Ï„Î¬Ï ÎµÎ¼Î¿Î¯ γÎνος ουÏάνιον, τόδε ίστε και αυτοί. Δίψηι δ’ειμί αÏη και απόλλυμαι, αλλά δότ’ αίψα ψυχÏόν ÏÎ´Ï‰Ï Ï€ÏοÏÏÎον της ΜνημοσÏνης από λίμνης.(I am a child of earth and starry sky. My origin is celestial, and you know it very well. I am burning thurst and I loose myself. But give me soon cool water, springs from Lake Mnemosyne.)The text, which is being set at the 2nd part of the work, is an invocation of the soul descending to Hades to the guardians of lake Mnemosyne, to allow keeping its memory alive to the next life. Privilege, under tradition, of the initiate souls, counter to that of lake Lethe which led them to eternal oblivion.The two parts of the composition are the equivalent to the watery - metaphysical element of the two lakes - rivers running across Hades. The work is dedicated to the memory of composer's father Ioannis Theodossiou (1917 - 2008) and has been performed by Angelica Kathariou and the Greek Ensemble of Contemporary Music under Valery Oreshkin at Ph. Nakas Concert Hall, Athens, in 2009.
