ELENI KARAINDROU: Elegy of the Uprooting
1. Prayer
2. Refugee’s Theme
3. The Weeping Meadow
4. Dance
5. An ode of tears
6. For the Phrygian land vast mourning
7. By the Sea
8. Depart and Eternity Theme
9. Rosa’s Aria
10. Memories
11. Hecuba’s Lament / Hecuba’s Theme II
12. Telamon, you came to conquer our town
13. The city that gave birth to you was consumed by fire
14. An ode of tears
15. Theme of the Uprooting I
16. The Weeping Meadow II
17. Voyage
18. Voyage to Cythera
19. On the Road
20. Parade
21. Return
22. Andromache’s Theme
23. The land I call home
24. Home of my forefathers
25. I wish I’m given there
26. Refugee’s Theme
27. The Seagull
28. Song of the Lake
29. Adagio - Father’s Theme
30. In vain the sacrifices
31. My beloved, your soul is wandering
32. Decision
33. Farewell Theme
34. Theme of the Lake
35. Hecuba’s Theme II
36. Lament for Astyanax
37. Exodos
38. The Weeping Meadow
Maria Farantouri - voice
Vangelis Christopoulos - oboe
Socratis Sinopoulos - Constantinople lyra
Maria Bildea - harp
Kostantinos Raptis - accordion, bayan
Sergiu Nastasa - violin
Renato Ripo - violoncello
Stella Gadedi - flute
Nikos Guinos - clarinet
Socratis Anthis - trumpet
Spyros Kazianis - bassoon
Vangelis Skouras - French horn
Aristotelis Dimitriadis - mandolin
Eleni Karaindrou - piano
Maria Bildea - harp
Socratis Sinopoulos - Constantinople lyra, laouto
Christos Tsiamoulis - ney
Panos Dimitrakopoulos - kanonaki
Andreas Katsiyiannis - santouri
Andreas Papas - bendir, daouli
Hellenic Radio/Television Choir
Antonis Kontogeorgiou, choirmaster
Camerata Orchestra / Alexandros Myrat
Recorded: Athens 2005
Picture Format: NTSC / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 101 minutes
An extraordinary DVD concert recording of the music of Eleni Karaindrou filmed in her hometown of Athens in 2005, Elegy of the Uprooting is effectively an anthology of her greatest music for stage and screen, performed by 130 musicians. It’s an epic journey in colours, sounds and rhythms, shedding light on the themes of uprooting, exodus, exile and homecoming - themes that recur in Karaindrou’s haunting work.
