Mousiko Odiporiko 1959-1969

A collection of 127 traditional songs and tunes from all over Greece that were first released on 45 rpm records between 1959 and 1969 under the direction and musical supervision of Domna Samiou. The collection was compiled and edited by Yiorgos Tsampras.

Production: Universal
Year of release: 2008
Type: CD

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Musical supervision)Domna Samiou (Musical advisor)Γιώργος Τσάμπρας (Research and presentation)

Booklet team

Γιώργος Τσάμπρας (Texts and commentaries)

Singers

Domna Samiou (The Thraciot Girl, A Flower at Your Window, My Beau Has Come, Ano Mera, a Fine Village, Amidst the Smells of May, Balos From Smyrna, A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands, My Emigrated Bird, Lullaby, One Friday, Farewell Beautiful Girls, )Amalia Karzi (Mother Arrange for My Marriage, Last Night I Didn’t Sleep, Mother, Send Me Away, Going up the Bad Steps, The Braches Want to Bloom, Bandits in the Yard, The Qute Boy, Let My Eyes Go See, Girl from Gargalianoi, Fteri, This earth shall eat us up, Tzavelaina, )Chronis Aidonidis (Open Lips, Open, When You Go for Water, Malamo, If Youth Came Round Again, Mother and Son Did Fight, Open the Door, Lenio, The Sun Sets, the Day Ends, I Would I Were a Bird, The Thraciot Girl, My Lads from Dervena, Your Dark Clothes, Eleni, My Dearest Lemon Tree, )Fanis Bourboulis (Young Tsams, )Kostas Apostolopoulos (I Was Fooled One Dawn, Youth Only Comes Once, )Loukas Voulgaris (Last Night I Dreamed, Forgive Me Neighbours, )Panagiotis Marokos (I Passed Through a Village, Lemon Tree, )Yannis Koutsoukos (Mother You Married Me off Badly, )Christos Zygovinas (Foray, )Pantelis Ginis (Aganda Yialessa, Dirlada, )Irini Konitopoulou-Legaki (You Quench Your Thirst… O Sea, )Polyphonic Group K. Mpatsidis & Ch. Papadopoulos (Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad, )Froso Iliopoulou (If I Had an Bitter Orange, Redhair Wife of the Priest, )Amalia Papastefanou (My Precious (Tzivaeri), Pervolaria, The Day Broke, My Emigrated Bird, My Little Kastellorizo, Lass, Working the Loom, Sousta from Kastellorizo, Eri, Exile Is the Greatest Hardship, Archagellitikos, Kato Choros, Over Yonder Hills, )D. Syrokakis (Syrtos Dance from Chania, )D. Papadaki (Syrtos Dance from Chania, )Yannis Skalidis (Song from Crete, )Despina Skalidi (Song from Crete, )Yannis Bezeris (Song of the Grape Harvest, )V. Agiotatos (Song of the Grape Harvest, )Elli Bezeri (Song of the Grape Harvest, If I Could Have Two Hearts, )Alekos Symeonidis (Wedding Song From Cyprus, Sousa’s Song, )Anna Maniati (Down on the Sandy Beach, I Went Aboard a Boat, )Thalia Spanou (My Beau Has Come, )Alekos Kodjias (May Day, )Lambros Papathanasiou (Turks Hold the Horses, Panagioula, Moutains, Boast Not, What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?, How Fortunate the Mountains, Beam, Moon Dear, My Blooming Violet, Dig My Grave Deep, Where Were You Partridge, Aristides, I Heard From My Old Love, Into the Vineyard, I Told You, I Charged You, )Kostas Akrivos (A Boy from Syria, )Elpida Brachopoulou (My Emigrated Bird, )Kostas Rountas (A Flower at Your Window, )Eleni Bayraktari-Koutalakidou (I Wait for You, Let Us Go Gather Chestnuts, A Heavy Sigh, Song From Kromni, My Sweet Lambkin, )Christos Bayraktaris (Let Us Go Gather Chestnuts, I Split the Mountains on the Way, )

Choir

Men’s Group (Aganda Yialessa, Dirlada, )Mixed choir (When Will It Be Clear Skies, )Women’s Group (I Went Aboard a Boat, May Day, The Glass Well, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Philippos Rountas (Lament, Dance From Pogoni, Fyssouni Dance, A Flower at Your Window, The Sun Sets, the Day Ends, I Would I Were a Bird, Your Dark Clothes, Eleni, )Christos Baniakas (Foray, Dailiana, )Panagiotis Kokontinis (Turks Hold the Horses, Panagioula, Moutains, Boast Not, What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?, )Vassilis Skaliotis (Mother, Send Me Away, Going up the Bad Steps, How Fortunate the Mountains, Beam, Moon Dear, My Blooming Violet, Dig My Grave Deep, The Braches Want to Bloom, Bandits in the Yard, The Qute Boy, Let My Eyes Go See, Girl from Gargalianoi, Fteri, This earth shall eat us up, Tzavelaina, )Spyros Anastasiou (Morava, A Boy from Syria, )Yiorgos Brachopoulos (My Emigrated Bird, )Pelopidas Panou (Open the Door, Lenio, )

Flute

Dimitris Psigas (Shepherd Tune, )Kevin Andrews (Lullaby, )

Zournas

Mitsos Chintzos (Gaida, It’s Hard Being Far from Home, Karsilamas Dance, Tsifteteli Dance, )Zissis Chintzos (Gaida, It’s Hard Being Far from Home, Karsilamas Dance, Tsifteteli Dance, )

Gaida (bagpipe)

Theodoros Kekes (My Lads from Dervena, )

Pipiza

Christos Giannakis (Clouds Have Gathered on Parnassos, )Andreas Velentzas (Where Were You Partridge, Palavo Tune, Aristides, I Heard From My Old Love, Into the Vineyard, I Told You, I Charged You, )

Tsambouna

Nikos Talias (Dance From Kalymnos, Issos from Kalymnos, Sousta from Kalymnos, )Anastasios Veronis (Balaristos Dance, My Beau Has Come, )

Violin

Th. Gisdakis (Dance of Corfu, Song of the Grape Harvest, If I Could Have Two Hearts, Dance from Sokraki, )Christos Mexas (Dance of Corfu, Song of the Grape Harvest, If I Could Have Two Hearts, Dance from Sokraki, )Ilias Vassilarakis (My Precious (Tzivaeri), Pervolaria, Sousta Dance From Tilos, The Day Broke, Issios Dance From Leros, My Emigrated Bird, My Little Kastellorizo, Isios Dance from Rhodes, Lass, Working the Loom, Sousta from Kastellorizo, Eri, Exile Is the Greatest Hardship, Archagellitikos, Sousta from Embonas, Rhodes, Kato Choros, Zervodexos Dance, )Charalambos Tsiboukis (A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands, )Iakovos Ilias (Wedding Song From Cyprus, Sousa’s Song, )Petros Arapis (Ano Mera, a Fine Village, The Rose Leaves, )Alekos Kodjias (May Day, Kalafatikos Syrtos Dance, The Glass Well, Processional Tune, )Themistocles Angelis (Mother, Send Me Away, Going up the Bad Steps, )Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis (How Fortunate the Mountains, Dig My Grave Deep, The Braches Want to Bloom, Bandits in the Yard, The Qute Boy, Let My Eyes Go See, The Sun Sets, the Day Ends, I Would I Were a Bird, The Thraciot Girl, Your Dark Clothes, Eleni, )

Cretan lyra

Vangelis Fyssakis (Pentozalis Dance of Mylopotamos, )Man. Perakis (When Will It Be Clear Skies, )Manolis Perrakis (Amidst the Smells of May, )Yannis Skalidis (Syrtos Dance from Chania, Song from Crete, )

Pontic lyra

Nikos Spanidis (Kótsari, )Christos Bayraktaris (I Wait for You, Let Us Go Gather Chestnuts, A Heavy Sigh, I Split the Mountains on the Way, Song From Kromni, My Sweet Lambkin, )

Kanun

Nikos Stefanidis (Kanun Solo, Balos From Smyrna, Mother and Son Did Fight, The Thraciot Girl, Your Dark Clothes, Eleni, Constantinopolitan Wedding Procession, )

Santur

Pantelis Chatzipetros (My Precious (Tzivaeri), Pervolaria, Sousta Dance From Tilos, The Day Broke, Issios Dance From Leros, My Emigrated Bird, My Little Kastellorizo, Isios Dance from Rhodes, Lass, Working the Loom, Sousta from Kastellorizo, )Yannis Tzovenos (A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands, )Kostas Palaiologou (Wedding Song From Cyprus, Sousa’s Song, Mother, Send Me Away, Going up the Bad Steps, )Unknown (Ano Mera, a Fine Village, The Rose Leaves, )

Oud

Agapios Tompoulis (Oud Solo, )

Lute

Kostas Akrivos (Foray, Dailiana, Morava, )Stavros Adrianos (A Foreign Man in Foreign Lands, Wedding Song From Cyprus, Mother, Send Me Away, Going up the Bad Steps, How Fortunate the Mountains, Dig My Grave Deep, The Sun Sets, the Day Ends, Constantinopolitan Wedding Procession, )M. Papanikolaou (Dance From Kalymnos, Issos from Kalymnos, Sousta from Kalymnos, )Vassilis Iliopoulos (Song from Crete, )Dimitris Tsakiris (How Fortunate the Mountains, Dig My Grave Deep, )Christos Zygovinas (A Boy from Syria, )

Daouli (davul)

Kostas Trikalitis (Clouds Have Gathered on Parnassos, )Yannis Stamatopoulos (How Fortunate the Mountains, Dig My Grave Deep, )Yiorgos Liontas (Gaida, It’s Hard Being Far from Home, Karsilamas Dance, Tsifteteli Dance, )

Toumbi

Nikolaos Koussathanas (Balaristos Dance, My Beau Has Come, )

Goblet drum

Agapios Tompoulis (The Sun Sets, the Day Ends, )

Drum

Yannis Goumas (Where Were You Partridge, Palavo Tune, Aristides, I Heard From My Old Love, Into the Vineyard, I Told You, I Charged You, )

Guitar

Yannis Bezeris (Dance of Corfu, Song of the Grape Harvest, If I Could Have Two Hearts, Dance from Sokraki, )