Vasilis Michaelides: The other aspect

The concert, featuring selected poems by the great Cypriot poet, Vasilis Michaelides, set to music by Larkos Larkou, presents a different approach, which sheds new light to the poet’s oeuvre. This multilevel musical performance, in which Larkos employs instrumental and vocal ensembles, and soloists, emphasising on the distinctly dramatic character of Michaelides’ poetry, presents the most important aspects of his poetic oeuvre: the Cypriot dialect in its literary and scholarly dimension, the peculiar katharevousa with demotic elements, which the poet uses in most of his works, his humour, the erotic dimensions of his poetry, his existential verve, his nihilism, his adoration of Cyprus as a geographical and historical location, his exasperation with the conditions in which he lived, as well as the series of ill-fated circumstances that ultimately led him to destruction.

Composition – Orchestration: Larkos Larkou
Set and Multimedia Design: Christophoros Larkou,
featuring prints by Hambis Tsangaris.

Soloists:
Michalis Tterlikkas
Kyriakou Pelagia
Michalis Hadjimichael
Christiana, Christophoros, and Larkos Larkou

Narration: Alkisti Pavlidou
Roman the Melodist Byzantine Choir

Maestro: Father Nikolaos Lymbouridis
Limassol CamerataMaestro: Roland Melia

Musicians:
Irineos Koulouras (bass guitar)
Rodos Panayotou (drums)
Ilker Kaptanoglou (clarinet)
Larkos Larko (lute, guitar)
and twelve-year-old Moses Papamoses (violin)