Melpomen
Subtitle: altgriechische Musik = ancient Greek music = musique de la Grèce antique
By: [reonstructed and composed by Conrad Steinmann]
Series: Documenta / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis; Documenta (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis)
Publisher: Harmonia Mundi France
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Arles
Language: grc
Translated from: grc
Format: [sound recording] :
Subjects: Greek and Roman Music; Music
Other titles: Altgriechische Musik; Ancient Greek music; Musique de la Grèce antique
Notes: "Ancient Greeek music for an Athenian symposion of ca. 450 BC"--Container.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English, German and French, and texts with English, German and French translations in container

Ensemble Melpomen (Arianna Savall, soprano, barbitos ; Luiz Alves da Silva, altus, kymbala ; Massimo Cialfi, tympanon, krotala, salpinx ; Conrad Steinmann, aulos, direction).

Recorded Mar. 2004, Klosterkirche Beinwil, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Sung in ancient Greek.
Table of contents: title: Akoúsate/Argos; title: Mélomai / lyrics by Anacreon; title: Sáppho / lyrics by Alcaeus; title: Eros ; Máter / lyrics by Sappho; title: Nomos M; title: Tenge pléumonas oino / lyrics by Alcaeus; title: Dithyrambos; title: Gaia; title: Dáktylos améra / lyrics by Anacreon; title: Makrótatos; title: Anakreon / lyrics by Anacreon; title: Perikleitos / lyrics by Bakchylides; title: Agallís / lyrics by Sappho; title: Dialogos; title: Mona / lyrics by Sappho; title: Prótos; title: Ekleipsis / lyrics by Archilochos; title: Próteron; title: Hypne anax; title: Kretikos.