Pericles Papapetropoulos

Born in Athens, Pericles Papapetropoulos grew up in Heraclion in Crete. He first started learning music at the age of sixteen, with Ross Daly as his teacher. A year later he became actively involved with the music group “Labyrinthos”, playing the saz and the tambouras in concerts and recordings. He is also a member of the music group Passed Isolated, together with Harris Lambrakis, Kostas Meretakis, Panos Dimitrakopoulos and Spiridoula Baka, where plays the Constantinopolitan lute and composes.

His musical endeavors also include his involvement in a Constantinopolitan lute duet with Socrates Sinopoulos and his involvement with the musical group ‘Gramma apo tin Poli’ and the music group of Stelios Petrakis. He has also played in concert with renown musicians of both Greek and other traditional musical styles.

Since 2004 he teaches at the Athens Conservatoire.

Source: www.labyrinthmusic.gr

Songs

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  • SongEastern AegeanLove SongCouplets

My Aching Breast

  • Το πονεμένο στήθος μου ⬥ My aching breast may well pain me, but does not speak of it, and though my lips may sing a song, my heart does weep within. I weep and moisten with my tears the ground that I stand on, and yet there’s not a soul [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorLove SongCouplets

So, I Decided I’d Become…

  • Αποφάσισα να γίνω ⬥ So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán, Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would come along to worship there. My fair and fat Sultana, dear, you've gone and broken my poor heart, You've robbed me of my senses and you've [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanLesvos, MandamadosLove Song

This Lovely Summer…

  • Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι ⬥ This lovely summer that is past, this lovely summer that is past, áde, this lovely summer that is past I hunted for a little bird. I hunted it, I yearned for it, I could not stand it any more, áde, I put my bird-lime out for [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanLesvos, MandamadosLove Song, Sad and Plaintive SongCouplets

To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe

  • Τίνος να πω τον πόνο μου ⬥ To whom then shall I tell my woe, who will not sigh or groan? Even the tight-lipped stone itself would shed a silent tear. The sun has set beyond the rim yet the earth still simmers. Oh, may the heart that does not [...]
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  • SongInstrumental

Turks Hold Your Horses

  • Βαστάτε Τούρκοι τ’ άλογα ⬥ A tune in 7beat and free rhythm. On the tambourine Pericles Papapetropoulos. Recorded in 1974.
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1995Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Kaneloriza

This CD includes songs and tunes in ‘7 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of kalamatianos dances) and in ‘9 beats to the bar’ (the rhythm of zeibekikos and karsilamas dances) with lyrics and melodies both erotic and sorrowful. (barcode: 5204910000425)
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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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