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Constantine Caravassilis: From Sappho's Lyre

Jeffrey Duban, Carla Jablonski, Liana Guberman, Tenth Muse Ensemble, Constantine Caravassilis, Ariana Chris, Kaisa Roose, Sophie Shao, Katherine Needleman, Jenni Klauder (soloist), Jeffrey M. Duban (narrator), Maria Píkoula (soloist), Anna Urrey (soloist), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

Constantine Caravassilis: From Sappho's Lyre

Constantine Caravassilis: From Sappho's Lyre

Jeffrey Duban, Carla Jablonski, Liana Guberman, Tenth Muse Ensemble, Constantine Caravassilis, Ariana Chris, Kaisa Roose, Sophie Shao, Katherine Needleman, Jenni Klauder (soloist), Jeffrey M. Duban (narrator), Maria Píkoula (soloist), Anna Urrey (soloist), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

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"From Sappho’s Lyre is a double-album of music by contemporary composer Constantine Caravassilis, featuring poetry by Sappho, Sara Teasdale, and Jeffrey M. Duban, who also narrates. The first disc is devoted to From Sappho’s Lyre, a multimedia cantata for large chamber ensemble based on Sappho’s two major surviving poems: The Hymn to Aphrodite and He Appears to Me (Equal to the Gods). Conceived as a stage work to be accompanied by dance and action, the composition’s design lavishly fuses elements of ancient Greek theatre with Western ballet and opera. Caravassilis conducts Tenth Muse Ensemble, with narration by the poetry’s translator and interpreter, Jeffrey M. Duban. The second half of the release draws together several song cycles by Caravassilis, all inspired by or based on Sappho, starting with Five Duban Songs performed by mezzo-soprano Ariana Chris with the Tallina Kammerorkester conducted by Kaisa Rose. In My Life a Lyric City we hear settings of Sara Teasdale’s poetry, featuring soprano Jenni Klauder and pianist Maria Pikoula, while in Sappho de Mytilène, the first of his Sapphic inspirations, Caravassilis has orchestrated a translation into French of the poet Odysseus Elytis’s Greek. "

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, The Goddess Awakened
Track length4:33
No. 2, Earthward Summoned
Track length3:12
No. 3, Double Aria
Track length5:38
No. 4, Fantasy
Track length4:48
No. 5, Pas de deux
Track length2:53
No. 6, Incantation
Track length2:55
No. 7, Deathless Aphrodite
Track length4:28
No. 8, Invocation
Track length2:54
No. 9, Rapture
Track length1:53
No. 10, Seduction
Track length2:07
No. 11, Conveyance
Track length4:04
No. 12, Cosmic Canticle
Track length5:28
No. 13, Aegean Recitative
Track length3:17
No. 14, Zenith
Track length2:19
No. 15, Dream Within
Track length1:53
No. 16, Apotheosis
Track length4:38
No. 17, Exodos
Track length3:45
No. 1, The Gazing Gossamer
Track length4:33
No. 2, Explore Me
Track length4:03
No. 3, Doting Daphnis
Track length3:43
No. 4, Lalage
Track length4:20
No. 5, Communion
Track length3:31
No. 1, Mon chant
Track length5:17
No. 2, Toujours Eros
Track length3:15
No. 3, Vièrge
Track length2:14
No. 4, Adonis
Track length3:07
No. 5, Messager du printemps
Track length3:09
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