Ektoras Tartanis
"The lost nereid"
Sonata no.1. for piano solo (2022)
for piano
Duration: 9'
Solos:
piano
"The lost nereid"
Work introduction
This highly virtuosic piano piece is entitled "The lost nereid". The nereids were beautiful sea nymphs who beguiled people with their beautiful singing and could raise or calm the sea. In the Greek Kabbalah, the element of water represents the realm of "feeling". How would one of those Nereids sing today if she had lost herself from that archaic time to the present day? How would her song sound in a turbulent world, in which aesthetic values - if they exist at all - are entirely subjective? What feeling would it evoke and what lost beauty would it want to remind us of?