Angelique Ionatos, O erotas (Love)

Angelique Ionatos left Greece at the age of fifteen. She went first of all to Belgium, before settling permanenty in France.

For several years now, her work as a composer has been devoted essentially to musical settings of the works of great contemporary Greek poets: Mortoyas, Cavafy, Anagnostakis, Ritsos, and, above all, Odysseus Elytis.

In 1984, she gave the first performance of the latter's Marie des Brumes, followed in 1987 by Le Monogramme. Both works were co-produced by the Théâtre de Sartrouville and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, and recorded by Auvidis.

In 1990, she created and recorded Sappho de Mytilène with a new team of musicians, including Christian Boissel for the orchestration. Three of these musicians are with her for O Erotas: Bruno Sansalone, Jean-François Roger and Henri Agnel, to whom she gave the task of orchestration; they are joined by Renaud Garcia-Fons on the double-bass.

The success of the recording of Sappho de Mytilène (Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, top ratings in the magazines Télérama and Le Monde de la Musique) was coupled with a great success on stage at the Théâtre de la Vile and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. She performed O Erotas at l'Olympia in Paris in March 1993.

Since 1989, she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre de Sartrouville



• Biography of Angelique Ionatos at Wikipedia
• Discography of Angelique Ionatos



Tracklist:

1 Nées Plighes (Nouvelles Blessures) (3:40)
2 Piano Tin Anixi (Je Prends le Printemps) (3:56)
3 Omorphi Ke Paraxeni Patrida (Belle et Etrange Patrie) (3:58)
4 Mygdalia (L'Amandier) (3:29)
5 Aethries (Jours Sereins) (2:45)
6 Yakinthino (Comme la Jacinthe) (5:37)
7 O Erotas (L'Amour) (3:55)
8 Pehnidia (Jeux) (4:27)
9 Flisvos (Clapotis) (3:20)
10 Ke Tora (Et Maintenant…) (5:22)
11 Ston Paradisso (Au Paradis) (4:32)
12 Tou Manoli (Threne de Manoli) (4:05)
13 Asma Asmaton (Cantique des Cantiques) (5:40)