Quarta-feira 4 Jun 2008, 17h:04
A review of Eleni Karaindrou's "Elegy of the Uprooting"
For this ambitious performance she brings together 110 musicians, including a fourteen-piece ensemble of conventional instrumentalists, and a sextet featuring traditional instruments like ney, bendir and kanonaki, a choir and an orchestra.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23171
+ another review: http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=2094
Track listing:
CD1: Prayer; Refugee's Theme; The Weeping Meadow; Dance; An Ode of Tears; For the Phrygian Land Vast Mourning; By the Sea; Depart and Eternity Theme; Rosa's Aria; Memories; Hecuba's Lament/Hecuba's Theme II; Telamon, You Came to Conquer Our Town; The City That Gave Birth to You was Consumed by Fire; An Ode of Tears; Theme of the Uprooting I; The Weeping Meadow II; Voyage; Voyage to Cythera; On the Road.
CD2: Parade; Return; Andromache's Theme; The Land I Call Home; Home of My Forefathers; I Wish I'm Given There; Refugee's Theme; The Seagull; Song of the Lake; Adagio--Father's Theme; In Vain the Sacrifices; My Beloved, Your Soul is Wandering; Decision; Farewell Theme; Theme of the Lake; Hecuba's Theme II; Lament for Astynax; Exodus; The Weeping Meadow.