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Yiannis Markopoulos - Cycles (2CD, 1992)

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Yiannis Markopoulos - Cycles (2CD, 1992)

Yiannis Markopoulos - Cycles (2CD, 1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image & cue & log) & mp3 @ 320 kbps | tracks: 40 | Scans | 2:14:55 | ~ 822 Mb & 329 Mb
Label: EMI | 5% recovery record | Genre: Greek folk songs, Cretan music

An anthology from the very important work of the top Greek composer Yiannis Markopoulos, in a double CD released by the Greek National Radio Foundation (EPT) in 1992. You will find excellent selections from more than 15 albums of the talented composer, released from 1965 till 1991. Ideal compilation for anyone who wants to be introduced to the style of Markopoulos' music, through very popular compositions, but also some not so known ones, yet amazingly beautiful. Some of the greater greek voices will be your guides through this wonderful musical journey.

Yannis Markopoulos was born in 1939 in Heraklion, Crete. From one of the old families of the island—his father was an attorney and later the Prefect—he spent his childhood in the seaside town of Ierapetra. The Byzantine liturgy heard regularly from the church opposite his family home, Cretan traditional music, with its rapid dances of repeated small motifs, played by local instruments at the town’s weekly festivities, but at the same time the sound of the waves, and the detonation of land-mines in the aftermath of World War II, all these formed part of the acoustic universe of the composer as a child. He took his first lessons in music theory and the violin at the local conservatory and played the clarinet in the municipal band. Meanwhile other musical experiences of decisive importance were classical music as well as the music of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and, most important of all, that of nearby Egypt, which he heard either over the radio or from musicians and travellers passing through his hometown. Thanks to his father’s extensive private library he had the opportunity to deepen his knowledge, beyond school education, in literature, philosophy, history and the arts. He began composing music during his adolescence and two melodies of this time would later become songs that have enjoyed great popularity throughout Greece.

In 1956 Markopoulos moved to Athens to further his music studies at the Athens Conservatoire under the composer Yiorgos Sklavos and the violin teacher Joseph Bustidui, while studying philosophy and sociology at the Panteion University. While a student he composed music for the theatre, for the cinema and for dance performances. When he was 24 he was awarded the Music Prize of the International Thessaloniki Film Festival for Nikos Koundouros’ film Young Aphrodites and subsequently his works Theseus (dance-drama), Hiroshima(ballet suite) and Three Dance Sketches were performed by avant-garde dance groups. In 1967 a military dictatorship was imposed in Greece. Markopoulos left for London, where he enriched his knowledge under the English composer Elizabeth Lutyens, while his acquaintance with the composers Jani Christou and Iannis Xenakis played an important rôle in the deepening of his contact with the most pioneering musical figures. In London he composed the secular cantata Ilios o Protos (Sun the First) on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize 1979) and completed the musical ceremony Idou o Nymphios, a work the composer still wishes to keep unreleased with the exception of one part, the song Zavara-Katra-Nemia, a vocal composition of Dionysian character, that was released in 1966 and became one of his best known pieces. Also in London he composed Chroismoi (Oracles) for symphony orchestra and the Pyrrichioi Dances A, B, C (the first three of the 24 Dances he completed in 2001) that were performed in 1968 by the London Concertante Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. During the same year he was commissioned to write the music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest performed by the Royal National Theatre and directed by David Hugh Jones. In 1969 Markopoulos returned to Athens with a musical vision that would not only change the course of music in Greece but would also lend immediate moral support to the general demand for restoration of democracy, the struggle being led primarily by university students and intellectuals. He founded a new and highly distinctive musical ensemble which included Greek local instruments. Thus the piano was combined with the lyre for the first time, while he also added instruments of his own invention, particularly among the percussion, with the intention of enriching the variety of sounds. He then selected young musicians, singers and actors, from both the city and the provinces, and collaborating with painters and poets he presented a series of performances with his musical works Ilios o Protos (Sun the First), Chroniko (Chronicle), Ithagenia (Nativeland), Thitia (Lifetime), Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi (poetry by Giorgos Seferis, Nobel Prize 1963), Oropedio (Mountain Plain) at the Lydra venue which he named music-studio. His most fervent supporters were indeed the students and intellectuals who filled the music-studio daily, despite the constant interventions of the regime that would constantly attempt to shut it down. The composer’s vision had materialised and a new musical wave had been born which he termed “Return to the Roots”. He defined it as “a project for the future involving the process of examination, evaluation and selection of the indestructible sources of our living traditions in combination with selected contemporary art forms and elements”: the outcome was an exceptionally original sound emerging from the unique tone colours stemming from the unaccustomed blends of instruments and voices. In 1976 he composed the popular liturgy The Free Besieged, based on the poem by Greece’s national poet Dionysios Solomos, that he conducted in the crowded Panathenean Stadium, and which was presented in London in 1979. In 1977 he composed the music for the BBC television series Who Pays the Ferryman? The musical theme was a hit in Britain and gained the composer international renown. Numerous invitations for concerts abroad followed, in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Canada, Russia, Australia and the United States. Markopoulos continued composing music for the theatre and for the cinema, collaborating with directors such as Jules Dassin, George Cosmatos, Nikos Koundouros and Spyros Evaggelatos. Through his work Yannis Markopoulos did much to shape the musical landscape of the 1970s.

In 1980 Markopoulos married the singer Vassiliki Lavina, his long-time associate, and in 1981 their daughter Eleni was born. For a period he sought a more private life with his family while preparing for the opening of a new chapter in his music, compositions that would display melodic outbursts sustained by polytonic quality and dazzling rhythms of an inexhaustible exuberance. In 1987 he founded the Palintonos Armonia Orchestra (the name deriving from Heraclitus) with which he would give concerts in Greece and abroad and record many of his works. The works of this period include the Concerto-Rhapsody for Lyre and Symphony Orchestra, Mitroa for string orchestra, the Healing Symphony, two oratorios, two song cycles, chamber music works, four quartets, two sonatas, and five pieces for violin and piano. In 1994 he composed one of his most important works The Liturgy of Orpheus. There followed Re-Naissance: Crete between Venice and Constantinople, a musical journey in four units that strikes a balance between the opera form and that of the oratorio, and the opera Erotokritos and Areti. In 1999 he composed Shapes in Motion, a piano concerto inspired by Pythagoras and dedicated to his daughter Eleni. Some of his latest works are Evilia Topia (Sunlit Landscapes), fantasy for solo flute; O Nomos tis Thalporis, oratorio-musical spectacle for voices, choir, wind orchestra, ballet and video projection, dedicated to the environment; and Triptych for flute, strings and harp.
TRACKLIST

CD01 (1:04:46 | ~ 401 Mb & 165 Mb)
01. Themis Andreadis - No we shoudn't (Ohi den prepi)
02. Vicky Mosholiou - Beyond the sea (Pera apo ti thalasa)
03. Kostas Hadjis - Ruined houses (Gremismena spitia)
04. Marinella - The brave men (Ta palikaria)
05. Stelios Kazantzidis - What street? (Pios dromos)
06. Memi Spiratou - Sourlanta Dagianta
07. Orchestra - Who pays the ferryman (O varkaris)
08. Maria Dimitriadi - Down at Margarita's threshing floor (Kato stis Margaritas t' alonaki)
09. Nikos Xylouris - Honored blood (Entimo ema)
10. Haris Alexiou - Lengo (Hellas)
11. Haralampos Garganourakis - The words and the years that are lost (Ta logia ke ta hronia ta hamena)
12. Orchestra - Golden words (Malamatenia logia)
13. Vicky Mosholiou - Perama district
14. Chorus - Our place is closed (O topos mas ine klistos)
15. Nikos Xilouris - I saw my grand father (Ida ton papouli mou)
16. Vasiliki Lavina - I sing (Tragoudo tragoudo)
17. Themis Andreadis - Tarzan
18. Haris Alexiou - Rosa the playful (Rosa i naziara)
19. Nikos Xylouris - Your picture (Tin ikona sou)
20. Maria Dimitriadi - Cafe Hellas

CD02 (1:10:09 | ~ 421 Mb & 164 Mb)
01. Giorgos Dalaras - Complaining words (Paraponemena logia)
02. Giorgos Dalaras - If your kisses were stars (An itan astra ta filia sou)
03. Vicky Mosholiou - Close the door (Klise tin porta)
04. Lakis Halkias - The factory (I fabrika)
05. Chorus - Oriental sirens (Sirines anatolitises)
06. Orchestra - Friendly dance (Filikos horos)
07. Theodoros Vasilikos - The singer (O psaltis)
08. Vasiliki Lavina - Nea Ionia
09. Orchestra - Sifaka's dance (O horos tou Sifaka)
10. Vicky Mosholiou - The invincible (O anikitos)
11. Haralampos Garganourakis - Jesus, Krishna, Moses here I am (Na me Iisou, Krisna, Moisi)
12. Orchestra - Overture from 'Oropedio'
13. Giorgos Dalaras - Alexandros' mother (I mana tou Alexandrou)
14. Giorgos Dalaras - All around the place (Giro giro stin platia)
15. Haris Alexiou - As long as we live (Oso kratisi i zoi)
16. Nikos Xylouris - Zavarakatranemia
17. Chorus - The emenies (I ohthri)
18. Vicky Mosholiou - Alexandria
19. Nikos Xylouris - Meganimus mother (Mitera megalopsihi)
20. Manolis Mitsias - I keep going to the springs (Ki olo pigeno stis piges)

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