Een fantastische stad
Aspasia Nasopoulou
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 * VolkskrantGuido van Oorschot, 22 november 2021 Aspasia Nasopoulou, composition/ conceptBram van Sambeek, bassoonMarijn Korff de Gidts, percussionTobias Borsboom & Yokiko Hasegawa, pianoKevin Walton, voiceTrevor Grahl, organAntonis Pratsinakis, celloFrancesca Clements, recorder and electronicsRoberto Genova, tenor saxophoneFernando Oliveira, danceThanasis Deligiannis, direction adviceErnst Dullemond, décor Orgelpark, 20 November 2021Video editing, Melanja PalittaCompositions for organ supported by OrgelparkMoriana & Carousel of Fantasies with the support by FPK.
