Composer: Spyridon Samaras
Performer: Lenia Safiopoulou, Marissia Paplexiou, Varvara Tsambali, Maria Vlachopoulou, Angelo Simos, Dionysios Sourbis, Dimitri Kavrakos, Sofia Metropolitan Golden Voices Mixed and Children’s Choir, Fretted String Ensemble of the Corfu Music School
Orchestra: Pazardzhik Symphony Orchhestra, Sofia Amadeuss Orchestra
Conductor: Byron Fidetzis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574358
Release: 2024
Size: 317 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Tigra (Arr. for Voices, Choir & Orchestra by Byron Fidetzis)
01. Donna Palma
02. Donna Palma! – Guardate donne
03. Guarda guarda mamma mia!
04. Pace ai morti in fondo al mare
05. Il bimbo e la bimba cantavano al sole
06. Di queste grida or l’eco ti risuona
07. Vecchio, a quei tempi nella bocca amara
08. Avea negli occhi un foco
09. Laggiù – Nel mare fulgido si schiudon cerule
10. Dite il colore del cielo
11. Brana, ruvido sire
12. Pronti ad ogni acerba guerra
13. Madre serena e fulgida
14. Oh, messer Pietro riscuotiti
15. Interlude I
16. Bella festa e dolce!
17. La notte è si pura!
18. Chi sei tu che mi guardi?
19. Ma le piccole mani
20. Nella stanzetta mia io ricordavo!
21. Nella stanzetta mia prego e aspetto sicura
22. Maria, vieni Maria!
23. Arida bocca curva nello scherno
24. Interlude II
25. Notte notte!
26. Tacerò ma l’occhio ardente
27. Baciami Maria
28. Oh, la mamma mi chiama
29. Testimone m’è la notte odorosa
Epinikeia (Restored & Edited by Byron Fidetzis)
30. No. 1, To xýpnima tis dóxas
31. No. 2, Ston pólemo
32. No. 3, Thalassiná kanónia
33. No. 4, To agíasma tis simaías
34. No. 5, Paramoní máchis
35. No. 6, Ta Giánnena
36. No. 7, Stin Akrópoli
37. Chitarrata Epinikeia (Restored & Edited by Byron Fidetzis)
Spyridon Samaras was the most internationally respected Greek composer of his time, yet it is only in recent years that some of his major works have been edited or orchestrated for performance. Tigra is a major case in point, a ravishing love story set in medieval Venice, and a product of Samaras’s operatic maturity. With its innovative harmonic language set to an Italian text, musical Orientalism and Franco-Italian influences it helped pave the way for the emerging Greek National School. It has been faithfully orchestrated by Byron Fidetzis. Epinikeia is reminiscent of Samaras’s famous Olympic Anthem of 1896, while Chitarrata is a youthful work composed in Paris.