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Index Alphabetical order A-D:
1. BRIDGE OF ARTA, THE [Της Άρτας το γιοφύρι]
3. CHRIST IS RISEN [Χριστός Ανέστη]
4. CONSTANTINOPLE’S LAMENT (THEY TOOK THE CITY) [Ο θρήνος της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως (Πήραν την Πόλη)]
5. DANCE OF THE SHADES [Ο χορός των ίσκιων]
6. DAWN GLOWS, THE [Άστραψεν η ανατολή]
BRIDGE OF ARTA, THE
[Της Άρτας το γιοφύρι]
For four-part chorus & piano accompaniment.
Folk poem, harmonization by Manolis Kalomiris, from the musical tragedy The Master Builder. 1913.
Publication: Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
CHELIDONISMA
[Χελιδόνισμα]
Poem, Athanasios Christopoulos, 1911.
Publication: Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
CHRIST IS RISEN
[Χριστός Ανέστη]
Byzantine hymn, harmonization by Manolis Kalomiris, 1955.
Publication: Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume II, Part III, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
CONSTANTINOPLE’S LAMENT (THEY TOOK THE CITY)
[Ο θρήνος της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως (Πήραν την Πόλη)]
a. For two-part choir & orchestra
b. For two-part choir & piano accompaniment
c. For contralto solo & mixed choir a cappella
Folk poem. 1912.
A folksong belonging to the group of the demotic songs and lamentations for the Fall of Constantinople, which were widely sung after the conquest of the city by the Turks in 1453 (see also notes on Konstantinos Paleologos, Piran tin Poli, The King Who Was Turned into Marble).
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Publication:
School songs (under the title Constantinople’s Lament), Athens Conservatory, Athens 1914. [Version b]
Military Songs, (under the title Constantinople’s Lament) Zacharias Makris, Athens 1929. [Version b]
They Took the City, Gaetanos, Athens n.d. [Version b]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part II, (under the title They Took the City), Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954. [Versions b, c]
Audio
Manolis Kalomiris, They took the City, version for contralto solo & mixed choir a cappella.
Julia Souglakou, soprano
Early Music Workshop Chorus
Yorgos Konstantzos, conductor
[link]
*For the orchestral version, see under the category Works for Choir and Orchestra.
DANCE OF THE SHADES
[Ο χορός των ίσκιων]
For male choir a cappella.
Poem, Kostas Hatzopoulos, 1940.
Publication: Unpublished.
DAWN GLOWS, THE
[Άστραψεν η ανατολή]
For unison choir (or solo voice) and orchestra.
Folk poem. 1940.
Orchestra: 2 1 2 1 – 2 0 0 0 – Timpani, Percussion, Harp, Strings
Publication: Unpublished.
* Listed also separately under the category Works for Choir and Orchestra.
7. DEATH OF THE LAMB, THE [Ο θάνατος του αρνιού]
8. DEATH OF THE KLEFTIS, THE [Ο θάνατος του κλέφτη]
9. DIAGOUSIKOS [Ο Διαγγούσικος]
10. DON’T TORTURE ME AND MAKE ME CRY from Twenty Folk Songs, No. 2
[Μη με τυραγνείς και κλαίγω]
DEATH OF THE LAMB, THE
[Ο θάνατος του αρνιού]
For two-part children choir & orchestra / piano accompaniment
Poem, Georgios Drosinis, 1911.
Publication:
Lessons in Music, Gaetanos, Athens 1939. [Only the voice part]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs, vol.I part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
* For the orchestral version, see under the category Works for Choir and Orchestra.
DEATH OF THE KLEFTIS, THE
[Ο θάνατος του κλέφτη]
a. For baritone solo & two-part male choir a cappella
b. For baritone solo, two-part male choir & piano accompaniment
c. For baritone solo, two-part male choir, piano & English horn*
d. For baritone solo, choir, English horn & small orchestra
Folk poem. 1911.
One of the numerous folksongs (demotic songs), dealing with the life and deeds of the “Klephts”, who were active before and during the Greek War of Independence. A Kleftis (lit. thief), somewhat similar to a contemporary guerilla, took to the mountains, conducting his resistance with booty stolen from the Turks as well as the local population (hence their name). The “Klephptic” songs are all in the demotic language.
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Publication:
School songs (under the title The Wounded Kleftis), Athens Conservatory, Athens 1914. [Version b]
Lessons in Music, Gaetanos 1939. [Version a]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs, vol.I part II, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
* This version exists only on record, with Kalomiris playing the piano part.
Audio
Manolis Kalomiris: The Death of the Kleftis, for baritone solo, two-part male choir, piano & English horn
[link]
Dimitris Krionas, tenor
Manolis Kalomiris, piano
* For the orchestral version, see under the category Works for Choir and Orchestra.
DIAGOUSIKOS
[Ο Διαγγούσικος]
For unison choir & piano accompaniment
Folk song, harmonization by Manolis Kalomiris.
1922.
Publication:
N. G. Mavris and E. A. Papadopoulos, Port Said 1928, in Dodecanesian Lyre, vol. I: Kasiaki Lyra.
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs, vol.II part IV, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
DON’T TORTURE ME AND MAKE ME CRY
from Twenty Folk Songs, No. 2
[Μη με τυραγνείς και κλαίγω]
For four-part choir a cappella
Folk song. n.d.
Publication: Gaetanos, Athens n.d.
