PEACE IS WHEN...

  Genre : Contemporary Classical 

  Catalogue: Phasma-Music 018

  UPC: 660989085728 

  recording: Kostas Kontos

  editing and mastering: Kostas Kontos

  recording place: The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  text translation from Greek to English: Magdalini Sarafianou

  graphic design: Michail Travlos

  production management: Iwona Glinka

  front cover: Anna-Maria Samara's painting "Peace is when ..."

  premiere: April 3, 2020.

Christos Samaras, composer

"Thamyriades" Female Vocal Ensemble of Polygyros Halkidiki

Maria Papageorgiou, conductor

Anita Tanyi-Manousis, piano

The outstanding album PEACE IS WHEN... is first album in a series dedicated to the one of Greece’s leading composer, Christos Samaras.  The recording includes 17 songs that run the gamut of the "Thamyriades" Female Vocal Ensemble of Polygyros Halkidiki repertoire - from full-voice style pieces to the women's work song tradition of Greek Macedonia. Samaras turned a wonderful Greek poetry by Odysseas Elytis, Nikiforos Vrettakos, George Seferis, Kostis Palamas, Georgios Drossinis, Tellos Agras to the beautiful Greek songs.

Product details

Three Songs for three-part women’s choir (2014) 

1. Peace Is When [02:38] 

2. The Child with the Trumpet [02:30] 

3. The Flowers Pray for the Children [02:10] 

4. The Child for three-part women’s choir (1986) [02:16] 

Five Songs for two-part women’s choir and piano (2012)

5. The Mad Ship [02:33] 

6. The Sparkler [02:02] 

7. The Pledged One [01:57] 

8. Everything Was Taken by the Summer [03:34] 

9. The Grievance [ 01:36] 

Four Songs for three-part women’s choir (2015) 

10. If Only I Were a Stable’s Straw [02:09] 

11. Christmas Night [02:24] 

12. I Saw in My Dream Yesterday [01:54] 

13. Christmas [01:25] 

Folk Songs for three-part women’s choir

14. Macedonian Carol (2008) [00:58] 

15. Young Apple Tree (1999) [02:18] 

16. Sleep, Who Is Taking the Children (Lullaby) (1999) [04:36] 

17. The East Shone (2008) [02:08] 

Total time: [39:15]