Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity

Melos Archaion - I mousichi tôn Theôn
Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity - Musique sacré de l'Antiquité grecque - Heilige Musik des Griechichischen Altertums
Petros Tabouris et al.
F.M. Records PAIAN 607

Contents:

{P} Original music fragment
{Q} The music of these pieces is inspired by the composer, based on musical theoretical works of ancient Greek writers such as Aristoxenos, Aristides Quintilianus, Aristotle, Nichomachus, Ptolemy, etc.

    CD-1

    Anon.
  1. Second Delphic Hymn to Apollo {P}

  2. Anon.
  3. Hymn to Zeus {Q}

  4. Anon.
  5. « Maktrismos » Dance {Q}

  6. Mesomedes of Crete
  7. Hymn to the Muse {P}

  8. Anon.
  9. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (instr.) {P}

  10. Sappho
  11. To Aphrodite {Q}

  12. Anon.
  13. « Agios o Theos » Chanted around the altar

  14. Anon.
  15. « Gigras » Dance {Q}

  16. Mesomedes of Crete
  17. Hymn to Nemesis (P)

  18. Anon.
  19. Instrumental fragment from Contrapollinopolis (P)

  20. Anon.
  21. « Aulos » (instr.) {Q}

  22. Anon.
  23. « Savarios » Dance {Q}

  24. Anon.
  25. « Barbitos » (instr.) {Q}

  26. Anon.
  27. To Demon. Orphic hymn {Q}

  28. Pindar
  29. « Dithyramvos » {Q}

  30. Anon.
  31. « Ithyphallic » melody {Q}

  32. Anon.
  33. « Ioniki » Dance {Q}

  34. Aristophanes
  35. Fragment from comedy "Birds" {Q}
  36. CD-2

    Sophocles
  37. Antigone {Q}

  38. Anon.
  39. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo {P}

  40. Anon.
  41. « Korivantes » (instr.) {Q}

  42. Mesomedes of Crete
  43. Hymn to the Muse

  44. Anon.
  45. « Telesias » Dance {Q}

  46. Euripides
  47. Stasimon « from Orestes » {P}

  48. Anon.
  49. « Thronismos » Dance{Q}

  50. Pindar
  51. The Elysium in Hades {Q}

  52. Mesomedes of Crete
  53. Hymn to the Sun {P}

  54. Anon.
  55. Tecmessas's lament - Fragment from the tragedy "Aias" {P}

Performers:
Aulites [Giannis Basiliou (aulos), Giannis Dobridis (askaulos - bagpipe), Stavros Kouskouridas (souravli), Françoise Bucquet (lyre, barbitos), Stavros Beris (kithara), Nestoras Drougas (krotala, tympanon, rhoptron), Petros Tabouris (pandora, trigonon, piktis)]
Singers: Tasos Aloupis, Kostis Georgalis, Nikos Konstantinopoulos, Giorgos Kostantzos, Stavros Beris, Panourias, Nikos Psarianos
Readers: K. Konstantopoulos, Elini Felipa, Stavroula Seitanidou
with participation of "Early Music Workshop".

Recording site and date:
Unknown [ca 1992]

Excerpts:
[1], [3]-[5], [7], [9]-[12], [16], [18], [24], [27] F.M. Records PAIAN 653 Music of the Greek Antiquity

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Pierre-F. Roberge