THEODORAKIS, M.: Zorba the Greek

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
January 29, 1996
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      THEODORAKIS, MIKIS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Hungarian Radio Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Papadopoulos, Michaelidi, Karnesis, Karytinos, Theodorakis, Hungarian State O
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 29, 1996
    • UPC
      4011687316328
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INT 31632
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Ballet
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: Daybreak - 3 Zeibekikos Songs: Moon you bewitched me

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    2. Act I Scene 2: John's Entrance

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    3. Act I Scene 3: Zorba' Entrance: The windows wide open

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    4. Act I Scene 4: The Girl's Dance

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    5. Act I Scene 5: Gran ballo

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    6. Act I Scene 6: Madame Hortense

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    7. Act I Scene 7: In the blooming gardens (Zorba, John, Hortense)

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    8. Act I Scene 8: Tsifteteli

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    9. Act I Scene 9: Evin - Evan: Bacchio Dance

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    10. Act I Scene 10: The Dance of Love: Like and embittered godmother

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    11. Act II Scene 11: The Return of Zorba: At your window

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    12. Act II Scene 12: Veatriki (Marriage of Hortense): Veatriki, stop laughing

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    13. Act II Scene 13: Women's Dance

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    14. Act II Scene 14: With the morning star (Asteraki)

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    15. Act II Scene 15: Hand me mint to smell it balm and basil (Marina)

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    16. Act II Scene 16: Ritual of widow's murder

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    17. Act II Scene 17: Hassapiko Dance: Dark is the way, until I finally meet you

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    18. Act II Scenes 18-19: The Death of Hortense - Scenes 20-21: Zorba's Dance: At the celebrations of Dionysus

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis

    19. Act II Scene 23: Zorba's Dance: Greetings, Creta, Mother Earth

      Composer: Mikis Theodorakis


The complete symphonic version of Theodorakis' best-known work including English, French and German libretto. In the "Zorba" ballet suite, Mikis Theodorakis uses almost exclusively well-known popular songs which he composed mainly in the 1960s. Some of them have been incorporated in the work as melodies, some of them as vocal pieces. It took twenty years before the composer became his normal self again; he first had to experience the disillusionment at the end of the 1970s concerning the social progress in Greece in order to be finally able to pick up the musical material, continue the compositional impetus of the 1950s and develop an appreciation for the genre of the opera in the mid-eighties which suits his composer's mentality – both as a melodist and as a symphonic composer – very well. When looking at the last and probably most productive period of his life, Theodorakis' return to symphonic music in 1980 must be seen as an act of liberation, as a return to his self. Since then, he has written several symphonies and oratorio-like works. In 1987, at last, the Zorba ballet marks the beginning of a new aesthetic practice.