Friday, 24 October 2014

Greece Is... The Songs Of Mikis Theodorakis




01 - Make Your Bed For Two
02 - Taking My Trouble From Rock To Rock
03 - Boat By The Sea-Shore
04 - In This Neighborhood
05 - Thanks Be To God
06 - The Smiling Child
07 - At The Hidden Beach

08 - A Boy In Sorrow
09 - Pain
10 - Margarita
11 - Go To Sleep, Young Man
12 - My April
13 - To The North Wind
14 - Road By Road


(p) 1975




Theodorakis named this song-cycle THE POPULAR SONGS in order to emphasize their deeper quality as well as to differentiate them from the cluster of songs he was composing at the same period such the MYTHISTOREMA (Yiorgos Seferis) or, the ROMANCERO GITANO (Lorca-Elytis). The writer of Popular songs Manos Eleftheriou was practicing a traditional path in his verse and Theodorakis understood this immediately, his melodies were spare and simple, diverging only slightly from folk models. He appeared content to express himself again in such a direct manner - like a genuine folk composer. These cycles were more personal in character because that they aimed at faithfully interpreting sophisticated poetry by recognized poets. The first performance of the two song-cycles took place in Italy in 1970; they were interpreted by Maria Farantouri, Andonis Kalogiannis and Maria Dimitriadi. A year later, the same singers recorded these song-cycle for the first time in Paris.


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