Elegy of the Uprooting is a double CD live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...

 featuring music recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM New Series label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars stating "Karaindrou is a giant. In her quiet way she towers over more popular figures, simply by digging through the historical, cultural, and musical past, through the images brought forth by them, and by the poetics of the human heart. There is no hollow sentimentality in this work. In fact, it is stripped of that artifice to reach the purity of emotion, presented by a composer and musicians who understand restraint, allowing the story presented here to reveal itself, not by narrative so much as by context and the honesty of the music itself. Without doubt, this is the modern classical recording of 2006 and will go down as a classic in the field".

Track listing

All compositions by Eleni Karaindrou

Disc One:

1. "Prayer" - 3:59
2. "Refugee's Theme" - 1:42
3. "The Weeping Meadow" - 3:28
4. "Dance" - 3:30
5. "An Ode of Tears" - 4:07
6. "For the Phrygian Land a Vast Mourning" - 2:08
7. "By the Sea" - 1:25
8. "Depart and Eternity Theme" - 6:21
9. "Rosa's Aria" - 3:52
10. "Memories" - 2:43
11. "Hecuba's Lament / Hecuba's Theme II" - 1:39
12. "Telamon, You Came to Conquerour Town" - 1:41
13. "The City That Gave Birth to You Was Consumed by Fire" - 2:02
14. "An Ode of Tears" - 0:36
15. "Theme of the Uprooting I" - 0:42
16. "The Weeping Meadow II" - 2:08
17. "Voyage" - 1:57
18. "Voyage to Cythera" - 2:17
19. "On the Road" - 3:10

Disc Two:

1. "Parade" - 2:56
2. "Return" - 2:25
3. "Andromache's Theme" - 0:53
4. "The Land I Call Home" - 1:46
5. "Home of My Forefathers" - 1:46
6. "I Wish I'm Given There" - 1:21
7. "Refugee's Theme" - 2:01
8. "The Seagull" - 1:26
9. "The Song of the Lake" - 2:26
10. "Adagio - Father's Theme" - 2:56
11. "In Vain the Sacrifices" - 2:13
12. "My Beloved, Your Soul is Wandering" - 2:58
13. "The Decision" - 2:40
14. "The Farewell Theme" - 4:25
15. "Theme of the Lake" - 2:32
16. "Hecuba's Theme II" - 1:03
17. "Lament for Astyanax" - 2:11
18. "Exodos" - 2:48
19. "The Weeping Meadow" - 2:53
    • Recorded at at Megaron in Athens, Grece on March 27, 2005

Personnel

• Eleni Karaindrou
  Eleni Karaindrou
  Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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• Maria Farantouri
  Maria Farantouri
  Maria Farantouri was born in Athens on 28 November 1947. She is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with prominent Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the score for Pablo Neruda's Canto General, which Farantouri performed...
  
   - voice
  Voice
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• Vangelis Christopoulos - oboe
  Oboe
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• Socratis Sinopoulos Constantinople - lyra, laouto
  Laouto
  The laouto is a long-neck fretted instrument of the lute family, found in Greece, and similar in appearance to the oud. It is played in most respects like the oud .- Construction :...
  
  
• Maria Bildea - harp
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• Konstantinos Raptis - accordion
  Accordion
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  , bayan
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• Sergiu Nastasa - violin
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• Renato Ripo - cello
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• Stella Gadedi - flute
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• Nikos Guinos - clarinet
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• Sopcratis Anthis - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Spyros Kazianis - bassoon
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• Vangelis Skouras - French horn
• Aris Dimitriadis - mandolin
  Mandolin
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• Christos Tsiamoulis - ney
  Ney
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• Panos Dimitrakopoulos - kanonaki
• Andreas Katsiyiannis - santouri
• Andreas Papas - bendir
  Bendir
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  , daouli
  Davul
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• Hellenic Radio and Television Choir - Antonis Kontogeorgiou, choirmaster
• Camerata Orchestra conducted
  Conducting
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   by Alexandros Myrat