Athens Po/Fidetzis - Vasily Kalafati: Symphony in A minor, L�gende, Polonaise in F major

Greek by parentage, Vasily Kalafati settled permanently in St Petersburg where he counted Rimsky-Korsakov among his teachers, and later included Igor Stravinsky among a distinguished roll-call of his own students. Kalafati�s style incorporated elements of the Russian National School into traditional forms, as can be heard in the wide-ranging contrasts and Romantic lyricism of his only Symphony. The Polonaise has a celebratory character with exceptionally bright orchestration, while the ingenious L�gende commemorates Schubert by transforming his themes into a colourful late-Romantic symphonic poem that earned Kalafati some well deserved