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The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo

WVF 479092 (2014)

What would we listen to today if Marco Polo had a recording system with him while travelling? And how would he use this sound had he been himself a composer? Kyriakos Kalaitzidis asks the questions and at the same time gives the answers, on the one hand composing music himself and on the other hand collecting musicians and traditional music along the ancient Silk Road that Marco Polo crossed from Venice to China. This is how he ends up in this versatile music album with classical Chinese music, Uzbek songs, Indian traditions, scholar Persian music, Byzantine melos, medieval music from Venice. On the way he meets Maria Farantouri, who sings his song The Stranger set to lyrics by Vasiliki Nevrokopli.

01. Marco’s Dream
(K.Kalaitzidis)
02. Gallop
(K.Kalaitzidis)
03. Lamento di Tristano
(Italian Anonymous, 14th cent.)
04. The Golden Sheaf of Time
(K.Kalaitzidis – V.Nevrokopli)
05. Jeopardy
(K.Kalaitzidis)
06. Migrants Circles
(Κ.Tabassian – Hâfez)
07. In Xanadu
(K.Kalaitzidis)
08. Ey Dilbari Jononim
(Uzbek Traditional)
09. Five Steps
(K.Kalaitzidis)
10. Chandmani Nutag
(Amartuvshin Baasandorj)
11. Yi Zu Wu Qu
(Huiran Wang)
12. The Stranger
(K.Kalaitzidis – V.Nevrokopli)
13. Holy Oil
(K.Kalaitzidis)
14. The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo
(K.Kalaitzidis)

Red Thread (Drawing Jotter)

Aegokeros (2014)

A work by Michalis Gregoriou in nine parts, shared to instruments and two voices: three instrumental pieces (01, 04, 07) and six poems by Kostas Kartelias interpreted by Maria Farantouri (02, 06, 09) and Doros Demosthenous (03, 05, 08).

Music | Michalis Gregoriou
Poetry | Kostas Kartelias

01. Dance of Circe
02. To Music – M.Farantouri
03. Leaving – D.Demosthenous
04. Outis
05. On the Wave – D.Demosthenous
06. The Night – M.Farantouri
07. Dance of Hades
08. The Time – D.Demosthenous
09. Red Thread – M.Farantouri

Small Suitcase

Cobalt Music (2014)

With a cover designed by Andis Ioannidis, (father of the songwriter), Mikri Valitsa (Small Suitcase) features samples of Alkinoos Ioannidis’ musical creativity and influences, including the song Hadzithakiás: a poem by Nikos Gatsos about Manos Hadzithakis, set to music by Alkinoos Ioannidis and interpreted by him and Maria Farantouri.

Music: Alkinoos Ioannidis
Lyrics: Alkinoos Ioannidis, Nikos Gatsos (8), Antis Ioannidis (9)

01. There will always be dawn
02. The glutted man
03. Political positioning
04. Where do so many birds die – Natalia Labadaki
05. A handful of land
06. The beauty of the village
07. Separation
08. Hadzithakiás – Maria Farantouri
09. My mother at Easter
10. What are you waiting for
11. Small suitcase
12. The Steersman – Socrates Malamas
13. The day that will come

The Great Vigil

COLUMBIA 70159 (1975)

The first album of Eleni Karaindrou and the only one with a cycle of songs, set to poetry by Costas Georgoussopoulos (K.X.Myris). The orchestra was recorded in Greece during the dictatorship and then secretly sent to London, where Maria Farantouri lives at that time, to add her voice. The cover is an Adolescent by painter Yannis Tsarouchis, specially made for this album.

Music: Eleni Karaindrou
Poetry: K.X.Myris

01. The Greek children
02. The revelation
03. The “Hail”
04. The nonprofit shipping line
05. Listen
06. The Greeks once upon a time
07. Do not wake her up
08. Koutris
09. Those who are vigilant
10. Anti-lullaby

Other Publications
EMI 701592 (1993)

Songs by Mikis Theodorakis

МЕΛΟΔИЯ 018847-8 (1966)

In 1966, Mikis Theodorakis and his band give a series of concerts in the Soviet Union: Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Tashkent, Tbilisi are some of the cities. The same year, the Soviet record company Melodia releaseσ this vinyl, recorded in Moscow, as a tribute to Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farantouri.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Iakovos Kampanellis, Nikos Gatsos, George Seferis, Giannis Ritsos

The Ballad of Mauthausen by Iakovos Kambanells
01. Song of Songs
02. Antonis
03. The Fugitive
04. When the war is over

Two songs by Nikos Gatsos
05. Rosewater
06. Myrtle tree

Epiphany by Yorgos Seferis
07. Denial
08. I kept a hold of my life
09. Flowers of stone
10. Inside the sea caves

Epitaph by Yannis Ritsos
11. A Day in May
12. You set my star
13. You were kind, you were sweet
14. You were standing by the window

The Ballad of Mauthausen & Six Songs

COLUMBIA 70204 (1966)

The four poems of The Ballad of Mauthausen are based on Iakovos Kampanellis’ experiences as a political prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp – all described with details in his book Mauthausen. The work is not only a condemnation of the violence and insanity of war, but also a hymn to love which can flourish even in a nightmarish environment and keep alive the hope of life.

The Six Songs, after the fall of the Greek junta, Theodorakis renames them as Farantouri Cycle honouring Maria Farantouri.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Iakovos Kampanellis, Dimitris Christodoulou, Yerassimos Stavrou, Tassos Livaditis, Nikos Gatsos

The Ballad of Mauthausen by Iakovos Kambanellis
01. Song of Songs
02. Antonis
03. The Fugitive
04. When the war is over

Six songs – Farantouri Cycle
05. I’m tired of holding you
(Dimitris Christodoulou)
06. The shadow fell heavily
(Gerasimos Stavrou)
07. I took the streets of heaven
(Tassos Livaditis)
08. In the world’s uphill
(Nikos Gatsos)
09. The pendulum
(Nikos Gatsos)
10. The dream
(Nikos Gatsos)

Other Release
EMI 702042 (1990)

Maria Farantouri sings Mikis Theodorakis

ΕΜΙ 7PG 3518 / 7PG 3519 / 7PG 3532 (1965)

Three 45 rpm vinyl, each one with two of the Six Songs, which after the fall of the Greek dictatorship, the Mikis Theodorakis renames them as Farantouri Cycle. Soon after their release, they are re-orchestrated and released on LP with The Ballad of Mauthausen.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Nikos Gatsos, Dimitris Christodoulou, Tassos Leivaditis, Yerassimos Stavrou

Maria Farantouri: voice
Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Mikis Theodorakis

3518
01. Tired of holding your hand
(D. Christodoulou)
02. In the world’s uphill
(Ν. Gatsos)

3519
01. I took the streets of heaven
(Τ. Leivaditis)
02. The shadow fell heavily
(Y. Stavrou)

3532
01. The dream
(N. Gatsos)
02. The pendulum
(Ν. Gatsos)

A Hostage

COLUMBIA 70216 (1967)

Theodorakis composes the songs from Brendan Behan’s play, sensitized by the liberation struggle of the Irish people and the wider movements for social justice and freedom. The work -with the excellent adaptation in Greek by Vassilis Rotas- very soon becomes a property of the Greek people who make the songs symbols of their own struggles.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Brendan Behan / Vassilis Rotas

01. On the Eighteenth Day of November
02. The laughing boy
03. Open the door softly
04. I’ve heard my love
05. I remember in September
06. You read the Bible in its Golden Pages
07. I send, dear Mother, to thee
08. Never throw stones at your mother
09. I am a happy English lad
10. Would you live on a woman’s earnings?
11. I will give a golden ball
12. I love my dear redeemer
13. No-one goes by here
14. Who fears to speak of Easter Week
15. The bells of hell

Other Release:
EMI 4802992 (1994)

Sun and Time & Epiphany Averof

MINOS 232/3 (1975)

Theodorakis writes the poems of the cycle Sun and Time when he is kept in solitary confinement at the Police Headquarters in August and September 1967, after he was arrested on August 21st. Soon after, out of the 32 poems he sets to music 16. This album includes their live recording in Paris, in the Palais de Chaillot, in 1971. The numbering follows the order of the poems – the ones that have not been set to music are omitted. Much later other poems of this cycle are set to music by younger songwriters.

The album also includes the flow-song Epiphany Averoff: the whole poem I kept a hold of my life from the poetic cycle Epiphany 1937 by George Seferis.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Mikis Theodorakis, Yorgos Seferis

Maria Farantouri, Petros Pandis, Maria Dimitriadi, Antonis Kalogiannis: singing
George Wilson, Yves Montand: recitation

Popular orchestra under the direction of Mikis Theodorakis:
Yannis Didilis: piano
Andreas Michalakis, Marios Vlatakis: bouzouki
Nikos Moraitis, Nikos Maniatis: guitar
Yannis Petropoulakis: bass
Gérard Berlioz: percussion
Laureate Dionne: drums

The Sun and Time
I. Hello Acropolis
II. Time dissolves
III. Oh sun, I will stare into your eyes
IV. Upon the arid soil of my heart
V. Between me and the sun
VI. When time stops
VII. The cells are breathing
XVII. Never, never, never
XX. Inside the paradise gardens of my skull
XXIII. Heavenly rivers
XXIV. When you shout
XXV. On the fourth floor
XXVI. The teeth of the sun
XXVII. Sixth of September
XXVIII. Suleiman the Magnificent

Epiphania Averoff (Epiphany, 1937)
I kept a hold of my life – A. Kalogiannis, Y. Montand

Other Release
POLYDOR 511054 (1991)

State of Siege

POLYDOR 1184357 (1970)

Rena Hatzidaki writes this poetic text -when she’s held by the military regime in the Averoff Women’s Prison- and then tears it up. It is Sylva Akrita who collects the pieces and takes them to Theodorakis. This album includes the recording of the work’s world premiere, in 1969, at the Roundhouse in London. Exiled to Zatouna from the dictatorial regime Theodorakis listens to the concert live from BBC on a little shortwave radio, which he has hidden from his guards.

Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry: Marina (Rena Hatzidaki)

Yannis Markopoulos: orchestration, introduction
Maria Farantouri, Antonis Kalogiannis: singing

I. As the child
II. How this child changed
III. Time was distorted

Other Release
POLYDOR 527103-2 (1994)