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

A Little Seedling
  • SongPropontisNicomedeaChildren's Song

A Little Seedling

  • Ένα μικρό φιντάνι ⬥ Children’s song from Nicomedea, Propontis, with a group of children from the 9th Primary School of Nea Smyrni. Recorded in 2005.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • SongPeloponneseKlephtic Song

A Maid Decided

  • Μια κόρη τ' απεφάσισε ⬥ Klephtic song from the Peloponnese with Zacharias Karounis. Recorded in 2004.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongDodecaneseRhodesLove Song, Wedding Song

A Partridge I Did Tame

  • Πέρτικαν εμέρωνα ⬥ Wedding song from Rhodes with Katerina Papadopoulou. Recorded in 2005.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • SongPeloponneseHistorical Song

Great Joy Across the Land

  • Ούλες οι χώρες χαίρουνται ⬥ Historical song from the Peloponnese with Katerina Papadopoulou. Recorded in 2004.
I Sold My Boat
  • SongDodecaneseLampoon, Sea and Sailors SongCouplets

I Sold My Boat

(Our Trata All Tattered)

  • 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 [...]
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongCycladesParosLove Song

In a Fine Orchard

  • Μέσα σ’ ώριο περιβόλι ⬥ Song from Paros with Katerina Papadopoulou. Recorded in 2005.
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  • SongPeloponneseSea and Sailors Song

Off Tsirigo

  • Ανάμεσα Τσιρίγο ⬥ Syrtos dance from the Peloponnese with little Dimitris Kyriakopoulos. Recorded in 2005.
The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
  • SongDodecaneseRhodesImmigration SongCouplets

Ribbon Intertwined

  • 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 [...]
Songs of History and Heroes
  • 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 [...]
The Captains of Trípoli
  • 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

Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from any form of romantic nostalgia; it lies instead in a pure experience of everyday life.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • 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.
The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

This CD is a good companion to those who want to offer their children a hint of a different magical world.
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