On the occasion of the recital that pianist Lefteris Gavalas will give tomorrow Friday at the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion, Crete, he was interviewed by Crete TV and journalist Christiana Skoura.
Answering a question about the programme he will perform, Lefteris Gavalas said that the works span from Bach to Hatzidakis,that is, they cover a period of more than two hundred years. A period that for music, as the pianist says, is quite long.
The programme he will present begins with Bach’s Bach’s Second Partita, a work of six dances, continues with Beethoven’s Last Sonata, “a deeply existential work”, written a hundred years later and while the great composer was in complete deafness, then he will perform Mendelssohn’s Fantasia, a romantically classical work.
The recital will conclude with Manos Hadjidakis’s Ionian Suite, a work that, as Lefteris Gavalas says, gives him great joy when he performs it, and perhaps this joy was one of the reasons why last year he won the Manos Hadjidakis 100 Years Anniversary Prize at the international piano competition De Bach au Jazz.
