The lost search for the lost melodiy - the Greek aulos flutes which Conrad Steinmann reconstructed together with his instrument maker - only superficially has something to do with history and music history. Steinmann brings to life the inimaginable music of the Greeks. His notes are a categorial «now». Only in our recollection, several minutes or hours after hearing them, do they become memories. Memories of an imagined Greece... Peter Bichsel (trans. Roger Clément) Composers Athenaios (200—None) Trad. Jeminitisch Sophronios (600—700) Tracklisting 1. Mare nostrum 3:17 2. Hiérax I (1998) 1:17 3. Plagios I 3:59 4. Plagios II 3:15 5. Paiàn délphikos 5:14 6. Proteros (1998) 1:28 7. Hiérax I (1998) 1:10 8. Hiérax II (1998) 1:26 9. Hymnus an den Schlaf (1998) 3:20 10. Mandilatos 2:05 11. Dror Yikra / Shabbat 4:41 12. 8. Kirchenton der Qale Gnizza (trad. Archidiakon Asmar, Beirut) 4:43 13. Cherubikon (um 1350; Kreis um Ioannis Koukouzéles) 23:15 |
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