"LINGUA MUSICALIS, Greek Poetry set to music" - Spyros Sakkas, Giorgos Kouroupos

• artist:Spyros Sakkas, Giorgos Kouroupos
• featured artist:Spyros Sakkas, Giorgos Kouroupos
• region:Athens
• release year:2002
• style(s):Folk, Greek
• country:Greece
• formats:Book, CD (Compact Disc)
• record posted by:Crete University Press
• label:Crete University Press
• publisher:Crete University Press
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This CD contains thirty pieces of Greek poems set to music by nine different composers of the 20th century, sung in an original and expressive way by Sypros Sakkas accompanied by Giorgos Kouroups on the piano. The edition includes also a bilingual booklet containing the texts and relevant commentary. Nikos Dionyssopoulos is responsible for the the production and editing.
The rich musical production of the twentieth century, encompassing both the folk and the learned tradition, is represented by the meeting of important composers (from Mitropoulos and Kounadis to Chatzidakis and Theodorakis) with the great poets of the century (from Cavafy and Ritsos to Seferis and Elytis). Thus the Greek song, as a harmonic co-existence of music and poetry, continues an old tradition, especially when it combines poetic discourse with learned mucical composition.
Spyros Sakkas and Giorgos Kouroupos, after their many years of collaboration, track, study and interpret important instances from this rich production. The anthology presented in this record offers thirty works representative of a wide range of aesthetic and musical interpretations and approaches.
This record is not merely a recording of sound, but an edition with a two-fold character: musical and textual. The recording is accompanied by a booklet containing all the poems set to music in the original form and in the form they appear in the songs (since in some cases the setting to music resulted in textual adjustments). Substantial research was undertaken, including collation with the first and subsequent editions of the texts. Thus, this edition, also satisfies the requirements of an edition of poetry, which is also typest in the highest standard of typography.