Dust of Time : Myrat / Athen Radio O Camerata Friends Of Music

Eleni Karaindrou: Dust of Time

Music for the film by Theo Angelopoulos, with Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Irene Jacob, Christiane Paul, Michel Piccoli

Sergiu Nastasa, violin
Renato Ripo, violoncello
Maria Bildea, harp
Vangelis Christopoulos, oboe
Spyros Kazianis, bassoon
Antonis Lagos, french horn
Dinos Hadjiiordanou, accordion
Eleni Karaindrou, piano
Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra
Natalia Michailidou, piano
Hellenic Radio Television Orchestra
Alexandros Myrat, conductor

Recorded January and March 2008

Theo Angelopoulos’s new film “Dust of Time” is a tale of exile, frontiers and separation, embodied in sound by Eleni Karaindrou, who foregrounds violin, cello and harp in some of her most tender and intimate writing. Karaindroui: “To write the music I had to look for the film’s secret codes, I had to bring the essence of things to the surface and shed intense light on the sound colours underlining the timelessness of nostalgia.” More than “a soundtrack” the music stands ably on its own as intensely melodic contemporary composition. ( ECM Records )