Alexiadis, Minas I. % Folk Cadenza #5 - SOLO EH

Folk Cadenza #5for unaccompanied English hornby Minas I. Alexiadis (b. 1960) - Greek composer ABOUT THE MUSICThe Folk Cadenza No. 5 belongs to a series of works for solo instruments, with a similar orientation: they are all inspired by the style and the tone-material of folk music, with a quite demanding musical setting.  In this particular case, the melodic manipulations (melisms) are connected with the (modal) musical tone-material of the southeastern Mediterranean region and they are linked to one another within a loose arch form, while still preserving a narrative style based on a central key (in A) and two collateral tonal centers (in E and G, being the roots of the dominant and the natural 7th degree respectively).  There is also a version of this composition for solo oboe. This version for English Horn was premiered by Kostas Tiliakos in 1998 and published in 2013 in its final form.  ABOUT THE COMPOSER  Born in 1960 in Athens, Minas studied piano with Marika Papaioannou and Geor