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]