Cyprian Suite

The Cyprian Suite is one of a series of works written
following a trip to Cyprus in 1999. Each of its four
movements is based on a Cypriot folk song. The first,
“Servikos,” is an instrumental dance in Serbian style, often
played on the violin. In the second, “Lullaby,” a mother
asks Saint Marina to take her baby to the world of sweet
dreams and bring it safely back. She entrusts her baby to
sleep, which will take her child and give it back to her
grown up like a cypress tree. with branches extending
from East to West. In the third, “Exomológhisis,” a man
who had a lot of love affairs went to his priest to confess.
The priest advised him to start a new life and stop having
affairs. The man replied, “Father, if you deny the Holy
Communion and the Divine Service, then I will deny love.”
In the last song, the singer complains, “I loved her from the
bottom of my heart, but she was indifferent, and I have
suffered.”