Aspasia Nasopoulou
Een fantastische stad
A collection of compositions that Aspasia Nasopoulou wrote between 2011 and 2021 is inspired by the book of Italo Calvino, The Invisible Cities. Marco Polo, the merchant and adventurer from Venice, tells Kublai Kan about his travels through the ruler’s empire. “It seems to me that you have never visited the cities you describe”, says Kublai Kan to the ever resourceful Marco Polo. “Everything I see and do gets its meaning from a void in the spirit where the same calmness resides as here in this garden”
Do you hear Olinda, Eudoxia, Ersilia, Isaura? Or maybe it is Andria?
A great line-up of musicians makes to sound the many faces of the one city that stays implicit.
4 * Volkskrant
Guido van Oorschot, 22 november 2021
Aspasia Nasopoulou, composition/ concept
Bram van Sambeek, bassoon
Marijn Korff de Gidts, percussion
Tobias Borsboom & Yokiko Hasegawa, piano
Kevin Walton, voice
Trevor Grahl, organ
Antonis Pratsinakis, cello
Francesca Clements, recorder and electronics
Roberto Genova, tenor saxophone
Fernando Oliveira, dance
Thanasis Deligiannis, direction advice
Ernst Dullemond, décor
Orgelpark, 20 November 2021
Video editing, Melanja Palitta
Compositions for organ supported by Orgelpark
Moriana & Carousel of Fantasies with the support by FPK.
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Aspasia Nasopoulou
Five Single Breaths
The piece was composed for the special sound pallet of Japanese Sho and accordion and was part of the production Forest Passage during Nasopoulou’s portrait …
Aspasia Nasopoulou
Hitotsu
The piece is composed for Japanese Sho and voice and based on the contemporary poem by Dan Albertson which was especially written for this composition. …
Aspasia Nasopoulou
Square-Oblong
Ten Dipoles is a series of ten musical miniatures inspired by oppositions which, according to pre-Aristotelian philosophy, give rise to all existing things (like left- …