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Medea

Socratis Sinopoulos (constantinople lute & lyra), Haris Lambrakis (ney), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Alexandros Katsigiannis (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (violoncello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santouri), Andreas Papas (bendir), Eleni Karaindrou (voice)

Release Date: 20th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: 3762816
Label: ECM
Length: 45 minutes

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Karaindrou: Argo's Voyage

Work length1:41

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Eleni Karaindrou, Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Ceremonial Procession

Work length3:47

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Eleni Karaindrou, Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Nikos Guinos (clarinet)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: On The Way To Exile

Work length4:51

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Eleni Karaindrou, Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Nikos Guinos (clarinet)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: The Haze Of Mania

Work length1:14

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Eleni Karaindrou, Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Medea's Lament I

Work length1:46

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Eleni Karaindrou (voice), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Nikos Guinos (clarinet)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Woman Of Mourning

Work length1:20

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Eleni Karaindrou, Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Medea's Lament II

Work length1:45

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Eleni Karaindrou (voice), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Loss

Work length1:43

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Eleni Karaindrou, Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Backwards To Their Sources (Chorus I)

Work length3:40

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Eleni Karaindrou, Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Antonis Kontogeorgiou (chorus director), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Nikos Guinos (clarinet)
Hellenic Choir
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: A Sinister Decision

Work length3:55

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Eleni Karaindrou, Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Nikos Guinos (clarinet)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Love's Great Malevolence (Chorus II)

Work length3:22

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Eleni Karaindrou, Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Antonis Kontogeorgiou (chorus director), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute)
Hellenic Choir
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: For The Sake Of A Greek's Words

Work length1:51

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Eleni Karaindrou, Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Do Not Kill Your Children (Chorus III)

Work length4:30

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Eleni Karaindrou, Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Antonis Kontogeorgiou (chorus director), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet)
Hellenic Choir
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: An Unbearable Song

Work length1:21

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Eleni Karaindrou, Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: All Hope Is Lost (Chorus IV)

Work length3:24

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Eleni Karaindrou, Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Antonis Kontogeorgiou (chorus director), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute)
Hellenic Choir
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: The Night Of Killing

Work length2:48

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Eleni Karaindrou (synthesizer programming), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute)
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

Karaindrou: Silence (Chorus V)

Work length2:09

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Eleni Karaindrou, Giorgos Kaloudis (cello), Andreas Katsigiannis (santoor), Andreas Pappas (percussion), Antonis Kontogeorgiou (chorus master), Alexandros Arkadopoulos (clarinet), Nikos Guinos (clarinet), Sokratis Sinopoulos (flute), Harris Lambrakis (ney flute), Marie-Cécile Boulard (clarinet)
Hellenic Choir
Recorded: 2011-06
Recording Venue: Studio Sierra, Athens

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Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou's collaborations with stage director Antonis Antypas have generated some of her most powerful music. Medea, like the earlier Trojan Women, comes out of this association. Created to accompany performances at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the music vibrates with emotional intensity.

Karaindrou gives her themes to a small ensemble, its sound-colours creating an ambience both archaic and contemporary, as textures of santouri, ney, lyra and clarinets are combined and contrasted. Even with reduced instrumental forces the composer seems to imply an orchestral scope. Giorgos Cheimonas' Modern Greek adaptation of Euripides provides the lyrics, movingly sung by a fifteen-piece chorus under the direction of Antonis Kontogeorgiou and, on two pieces, by the composer.

Euripides' play, first staged in 431 BC, counts amongst the darkest of the dramas of antiquity, a harrowing tale of betrayal, rage, retribution, madness, and infanticide. When Jason abandons Medea to marry Glauce, daughter of King Creon, and thereby strengthen his political influence, Medea responds with a fury that knows no bounds.

Karaindrou counterpoints the plot with music that builds tension also through restraint and silences. Already the pulsing of the bendir on "Ceremonial Procession" and the baleful melodies for ney and clarinet seem to anticipate the misfortunes ahead. The themes passed from clarinet to cello in "On The Way To Exile" are laden with melancholy. In her liner note Eleni praises the commitment of the players, "travelling with me through Euripdes' bleak world of poetry, unfolding their song, compassionate toward the play's characters." They convey "sounds of the Orient, Greek but also global" to underline the drama of the barbarian Medea, "whose love for the Greek Jason made her renounce her homeland, father and mother."

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