{"id":801,"date":"2026-04-18T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/?p=801"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:16:54","slug":"george-kontogiorgos-hellenic-music-for-bassoon-and-harp-world-premiere-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"George Kontogiorgos <br\/>Hellenic Music for Bassoon and Harp <br\/> World Premiere Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005-1536x710.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20250907-WA0005.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Highly acclaimed Greek composer<span style=\"color: #3465a4;\">\u00a0George Kontogiorgos<\/span>, famous Prizes awarded of numerous international competitions. Harpist Rachel Talitman and bassoonist Mavroudes Troullos bring to life a<span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0unique\u00a0<\/span>album of Hellenic Music. The ancient Greek instruments lyra and panpipe, the ancestors of the harp and bassoon, revisited in this album with special combination based upon the rich tradition<span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>civilisation. Tabula Rasa Suite, ten movements, inspired by the Hellenic tradition in classical, lyrical, minimalist and atonal styles, showing the virtuosity of the two instruments. The Archaic Concerto for Harp and Strings praises the Greek mythology by playing anthique hymns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunset,  from Tabula Rasa,  by  George Kontogiorgos,  with Mavroudes Troullos -Bassoon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d95_W0vXEQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly acclaimed Greek composer\u00a0George Kontogiorgos, famous Prizes awarded of numerous international competitions. Harpist Rachel Talitman and bassoonist Mavroudes Troullos bring to life a\u00a0unique\u00a0album of Hellenic Music. The ancient Greek instruments lyra and panpipe, the ancestors of the harp and bassoon, revisited in this album with special combination based upon the rich tradition\u00a0and\u00a0civilisation. Tabula Rasa Suite, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}