Ourania Lambropoulou

Born in Athens. She studied Advanced Music Theory, Byzantine music at the National Conservatory and the piano at the Conservatory of Kalamata. She studied at the faculty of Music Studies of the University of Athens. She took santur lessons with Tassos Diakogiorgis.

She has participated in concerts and recordings of traditional and 'entechni' music in Greece and abroad. Since 2004 she teaches the santur at the Department of Traditional Music of the Technological Educational Institute of Epirus.

Songs

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  • SongPropontisNicomedeaChildren's Song

A Little Seedling

  • Ένα μικρό φιντάνι ⬥ A little seedling a seedling, a little seedling sprouts forth and grows to give us fruit and flowers. A little water, just a drop to wash down the goodness so it won’t wane, so all will not be lost. So the leaves won’t wilt and the [...]
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  • SongPeloponneseKlephtic Song

A Maid Decided

  • Μια κόρη τ’ απεφάσισε ⬥ A maid decided to join the klephts and set fire, vr’ amán och amán, she set fire to her loom. She set fire to her loom, to her ivory comb, armed herself and joined the klephts. Twelve years she led them and no man ever [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseRhodesLove Song, Wedding Song

A Partridge I Did Tame

  • Πέρτικαν εμέρωνα ⬥ A partridge I did tame, through April ‘til May came, the tamer she became, the more she did complain. All afire deep inside, I hurled her far and wide, at the mount all rocky, all rock-strewn and stony. Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
Ούλες οι χώρες χαίρουνται
  • SongPeloponneseHistorical Song

Great Joy Across the Land

  • Ούλες οι χώρες χαίρουνται ⬥ Joy and celebrations across the land but Náfplion, my Náfplion, why are you not joyous? Why no scenes of joy, no celebrations? What cause for joy have I, what grounds for celebration? The Prince pounds me from the land, Boumboulina from the sea. Náfplion, hand [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseLampoon, Sea and Sailors SongCouplets

I Sold My Boat

  • Ηπούλησα τη βάρκα μου ⬥ In Saloniki I sold my boat but when I got home to Chios, I didn’t have a groat. Heave ho once, man the sails Heave ho twice, to the village Heave ho thrice, maid come to see my face. Off Diachori our nets we cast, [...]
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  • SongCycladesParosLove Song

In a Fine Orchard

  • Μέσα σ’ ώριο περιβόλι ⬥ In a fine orchard, laurel and myrtle quarrel. And myrtle, amàn-amàn, myrtle says to laurel… And myrtle says to laurel, -You stole my branch. – No, by Saint John, I did not steal your branch! And if I did, let the river take me and [...]
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  • SongPeloponneseSea and Sailors Song

Off Tsirigo

  • Ανάμεσα Τσιρίγο ⬥ Between Tsirigo and Cape Maleas, Virgin Mother, a ship is fighting for its life with all its cargo, too. Wave-buffeted and sailing to and fro, Virgin Mother, searching for a haven that isn’t to be had. Help us come through this alive, Sweet Virgin, and we’ll light [...]
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  • SongDodecaneseRhodesImmigration SongCouplets

Ribbon Interwined

  • Γαϊτανάκι μου πλεγμένο ⬥ I had a ribbon at the weaver’s and felt at the tailor’s, and a loved one in a foreign land, and him I’m waiting for, oh, and him I’m waiting for. Oh, ribbon spun and wound around the spinning wheel. The water is from Rhodes and [...]
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  • SongPeloponneseHistorical Song

Rock of Monemvasiá

  • Λαλούδι της Μονομπασιάς ⬥ Rock, vai, rock of Monemvasiá Rock of Monemvasiá and Athens’ citadel. Hey Palamedi of Náfplion, open up and let me in. So I can lay eyes on Náfplions’ women, on Náfplions’ maids, how they wash and whiten and lather sweet. Washing with one hand, lathering with [...]
Της Τρίπολης οι λοχαγοί
  • SongPeloponneseArcadia, Pera MelanaHistorical, Recent

The Captains of Trípoli

  • Της Τρίπολης οι λοχαγοί ⬥ The captains of Trípoli, mana mou, the captains of Trípoli and the brave men of Moriá. In Albania they lie, in Iván they rest. A curse on Korytsá, Kleisoura and Tepeleni! You took our boys from us, no brave lad did you spare. I joined [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

Through these songs, Domna Samiou pays tribute to how man, in years gone by, worshipped nature as the measure of ultimate beauty, order and harmony, and treated it with awe rather than with the destructive fury of today. The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

‘The Great North Wind ….’ is Domna Samiou’s second CD dedicated to her ‘young friends’. One of Domna’s main concerns is that, unless children are initiated in music, these songs will gradually disappear as time goes by. This CD is a good companion to those who want to offer their […]
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