Michalis Kaloumenos

Veracini: Sonatas

#otd 1768, Italian composer and violinist Francesco Maria Veracini died in Florence. #NowSpinning a 2005 record with a collection from his sonatas. John Holloway (violin), Jaap ter Linden (cello) and Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)

#music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Evelyn De Morgan 🇬🇧 (1855 - 1919)
🖼️ Ariadne in Naxos (1877) - oil on canvas

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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra op. 64/Piano Trio No. 1 & 2

#otd 1967, an old acquaintance from Hellenic conservatory was born. Happy birthday to Leonidas Kavakos who turns 58 today. #NowSpinning a record from 2008. Mendelssohn's concerto for violin and orchestra with Camerata Salzburg and his piano trios nos 1 & 2 with Patrick Demenga and Enrico Pace.

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 🇫🇷 (1780 - 1867)
🖼️ Oedipus and the Sphinx (1827) - oil on canvas

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Stay Now

#otd 1992, Swedish #jazz pianist and composer Joel Lyssarides was born. #NowSpinning his album from 2022, 'Stay Now'.

#music #musicsky

I am sorry. I hope you feel beytet tomorrow.

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Angelica Kauffman 🇨🇭 (1741 - 1807)
🖼️ Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus (1774) - oil on canvas

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To Axion Esti (Remastered 2003)

To celebrate the "OXI" day (when Greece entered WW II) #NowSpinning "Axion Esti" (which translates 'it is worth'), the epic poem by Nobel laureate Odysseus Elytis, set to music by composer Mikis Theodorakis.

#music #musicsky #oratorio

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Peter Paul Rubens 🇳🇱 (1577 - 1640)
🖼️ The Fall of Phaeton (1605) - oil on canvas

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Nancarrow: Quartets and Studies

#otd 1912, Samuel Conlon Nancarrow, an American-Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life, was born in Texarcana. Please, enjoy (at least try) the Arditti Quartet performing chamber music by the composer.

#music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Elisabetta Sirani 🇮🇹 (1638 - 1665)
🖼️ Daphne and Apollo (165?) - oil on canvas

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Symphony No. 1 in B Minor BVN 32 "Klippepastoraler" (Live)

#otd 1965, Finnish conductor Sakari Markus Oramo was born in Helsinki. #NowSpinning a great recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker, which the spotify has managed to amputate. Danish composer's Rued Langgaard 1st symphony.

#music #musicsky #classicalmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Peter Kruger 🇦🇺 (b. 1956)
🖼️ war (2025) - acrylic on canvas

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Bizet: Carmen

#otd 1838, Georges Bizet was born in Paris. #NowSpinning one of the first operas I ever purchased on CD.

#music #musicsky #opera

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Kateryna Aliinyk 🇺🇦 (b. 1998)
🖼️ Medical and Political Fantasy about Luhansk (2021) - acrylic paint, paper

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Lehár: Die lustige Witwe

#otd 1948, Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár died in Bad Ischl, near Salzburg. #NowSpinning his most famous work. 'The Merry Widow' conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

#music #musicsky #classicalmusic #operetta

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Hans Larwin 🇦🇹 (1873 - 1938)
🖼️ Death and the Soldier (1917) - oil on canvas

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Homebrew

My past in Electronic Music...

#NowSpinning the record that inducted me into Computer Music. It dates from 1992 (not 2005). Please enjoy, the music of the great American composer and teacher Paul Lansky.

#music #musicsky #electronicmusic

This item is in Athens or elsewhere?

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Ethel Léontine Gabain 🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (1883 - 1950)
🖼️ A Child Bomb Victim Receiving Penicillin Treatment (1944) - oil on canvas

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Icmc 2002 Jury Choices

My past in Electronic Music...

The International Computer Music Conference is the preeminent annual gathering for computer music practitioners from around the world. The 1st one was held in 1974. #NowSpinning a selection of works from the Göteborg 🇸🇪 2002 ICMC!

#music #musicsky #electronicmusic

In Chicago? Great. I have seen just a few of the paintings I post every day.

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Eugène Delacroix 🇫🇷 (1798 - 1863)
🖼️ Episode from the Greek War of Independence (1856) - oil on canvas

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Hades, Persephone and Kerberos, Roman era statues in the archeological museum of Herakleion, Crete.

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The landlord, his wife and their pet

(Archeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete)
📷 mine

#ClassicsTober25 #ClassicsTober

The NMC Songbook

The NMC recording label released this #NowSpinning album in 2009 to celebrate their 20th anniversary. As John Adams said "This extraordinary project confirms the robust health and endlessly varied landscape of Britain's new music".

#music #musicsky #electronicmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Flora Lion 🇬🇧 (1878 - 1958)
🖼️ Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford (1918) - oil on canvas

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25 Years Diem

My past in Electronic Music...

The Danish Institute of Electronic Music was founded in 1986. #NowSpinning a double CD to celebrate 25 years of experimenting with music boundaries.

ENJOY AT YOUR OWN RISK

#music #musicsky #electronicmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Andreas Orosz 🇩🇪 (b. 1960)
🖼️ Queensboro Bridge (2001) - acrylic on canvas

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An Anthology of Greek Experimental Electronic Music 1966-2016

My past in Electronic Music...

Here is an anthology of Greek Electronic Music. Among works by Iannis Xenakis and Michalis Adamis, I am happy to revisit old friends from the end of the previous century.

ENJOY AT YOUR OWN RISK

#music #musicsky #electronicmusic

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Yvonne Jacquette 🇺🇸 (b. 1934)
🖼️ Third Avenue (with Reflection) III (2005) - digital pigment print

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