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Liduino Pitombeira: Athanasios, Op.308 (2025)

Based on the poem Athanásios (The Immortal) by Maria Di Cavalcanti, this work in four movements traces a spiritual and sensorial journey through images of silence, vital force, affliction, and transcendence. Each movement is a musical reflection of one stanza of the poem, drawing upon a range of compositional techniques to evoke its unique atmosphere and expressive core. The titles of the movements—Night, Fight, Plight, Light—form a sonic and conceptual arc that mirrors the poetic structure and dramatizes the path from silence to illumination. The first movement, Night, opens in a suspended temporal space, where the world falls asleep under the embrace of the infinite. Through free twelve-tone technique, contrapuntal lines emerge as whispers and echoes. The absence of a tonal center enhances the atmosphere of mystery, stillness, and nocturnal contemplation. The second movement, Fight, brings forth an inner energy that pulses through the musical fabric. It is structured upon asymmetrical rhythms inspired by traditional Greek music, in homage to the Greek saxophonist Athanasios Zervas, to whom the work is dedicated. Interwoven with these gestures are rhythmic and modal elements drawn from Northeastern Brazilian music, evoking echoes of baião, maracatu, and embolada. These rhythmic matrices create a dynamic dialogue between Mediterranean and Brazilian musical traditions.A third element emerges in the harmonic realm: triadic progressions built in fourths, which lend the music both transparency and a subtle sense of harmonic ambiguity. At times, the saxophone evokes the seresteiro spirit of Brazilian urban song — lyrical, intimate, and nostalgic. Melodic figures expand and clash against harmonic planes, constructing a microcosm of tension, propulsion, and emergent desire. Plight, the third movement, returns to free dodecaphony, intensifies the drama, and evokes the image of “sharp stones underfoot.” Dense harmonies and shifting textures mirror a path marked by instability, confinement, and existential struggle. It is a sonic portrait of the effort to rewrite destiny in the face of suffering and doubt. The final movement, Light, breaks open with clarity and resonance. Here, quartal Harmony and pentatonic sonorities play a central role in shaping harmonic color and modal ambiguity. The textures grow vibrant, and the interplay of timbres leads to a radiant culmination. This is the moment where “a being pulses in eternal rhythm”—an affirmation of spirit, rhythm, and enduring presence, in music and beyond. Recital at the Athens Conservatoire, November 20th, 2025, 20:00. L'Anima String Quartet and Athanasios Zervas, saxophone.