CHORAL WORKS
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Index Alphabetical order P-Ta:
1. PRICE OF KISSES, THE [Το πόσο πάει το φιλί]
2. PRAYER [Προσευχή ή Προσευχή για τα ελληνόπουλα]
4. SORTIE OF THE PARGIANS, THE [Η έξοδος των Παργίων]
PRICE OF KISSES, THE
[Το πόσο πάει το φιλί]
For mixed choir a cappella
Folk song from the island Chios, from the Twenty Folk Songs
1922.
Publication:
The Price of Kisses, Gaetanos, Athens n.d.
* See also Twenty Folk Songs, under the category Folksongs for Voice and Orchestra.
PRAYER
[Προσευχή ή Προσευχή για τα ελληνόπουλα]
For unison choir & piano / electric organ accompaniment
Poem, Chrysanthos, Archbishop of Athens and Greece. 1941.
Publication:
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume II, Part III, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
RINAKI*
[Το Ρηνάκι]
For mixed choir a cappella
Folk poem. 1936.
* Rinaki, a woman’s name.
Publication:
Rinaki, Gaetanos, Athens, n.d.
SORTIE OF THE PARGIANS, THE
[Η έξοδος των Παργίων]
For unison choir & piano accompaniment
Poem, Spyros Peresiadis. 1912.
Peresiadis, Spyros (1864–1918), mostly known for his “Comidylls” (a genre of comedy interlaced with songs). Being blind, Peresiadis dictated his works.
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Publication:
School songs, Athens Conservatory, Athens 1914.
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume II, Part IV, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
SPRING [Η άνοιξη]
a. For unison children choir & piano accompaniment
b. For three-part children choir & piano accompaniment
Poem, Angelos Vlahos. 1911.
Vlahos, Angelos (1838 – 1920), poet, critic, renouned translator. Owing to his many important positions (as journalist, diplomat and minister), he played a dominant role in the development of the intellectual life of Greece at that time.
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Publication:
School songs, Mystakidis, Efstathiadis and Makris, Athens1911. [version a]
Lessons in Music, Gaetanos, Athens 1939. [Only the voice part]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
6. STUDENTS’ FLAG, THE [Η σημαία των μαθητών]
8. SUN AND WIND [Ήλιος και αέρας]
9. “TA NIKITIRIA” (Byzantine hymn) [Τα Νικητήρια]
STUDENTS’ FLAG, THE
[Η σημαία των μαθητών]
For two-part choir & piano accompaniment
Poem, Christos Varlentis. 1911.
Publication:
School songs, Mystakidis, Efstathiadis and Makris, Athens1911.
SUMMER [Το καλοκαίρι]
For two-part children choir & piano accompaniment
Poem, Kostis Palamas. 1911.
Publication:
School songs, Mystakidis, Efstathiadis and Makris, Athens1911.
Lessons in Music, Gaetanos, Athens 1939. [Only the voice part]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
SUN AND WIND [Ήλιος και αέρας]
For two-part children choir & piano accompaniment
Poem, Georgios Drosinis. 1911.
Drosinis, Georgios (1859 – 1951), poet, prose writer and editor of literary journals, belongs together with Palamas to the generation of the Demoticists which appeared about 1880. As a member of the Academy of Athens, he contributed greatly to the literary achievements of the so-called “new Athenian” school and remained to the end a sensitive, noble representative of the arts.
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]
Publication:
School songs, Athens Conservatory, Athens 1914.
Lessons in Music, Gaetanos, Athens 1939. [Only the voice part]
Offering for the Greek Youth - Songs for School, Army and Workers’ Choirs. Volume I, Part I, Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1954.
“TA NIKITIRIA” (Byzantine hymn)
[Τα Νικητήρια]
a. For mixed choir & piano accompaniment
b. For mixed choir & orchestra
Byzantine Hymn of Thanksgiving in victory, to the Virgin, Protector in Battle.
Finale from the Symphony of “Leventia”.
Publication:
Union of Greek Composers, Athens 1956. [version a]
The Symphony of “Leventia”, Gaetanos, Athens 1936. [version b]
“Ta Nikitiria”, Musical Life, vol. I, Nos. 9 – 10, June – July 1931, Athens. [version b]
Audio
Manolis Kalomiris: Symphony no 1 (Leventia): Finale – Ta Nikitiria
[link]
The Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra & the National Choir of Bulgaria
Byron Fidetzis, conductor
1981
* For the Symphony of “Leventia”, see under the category Orchestral Works.
