Foros Timis Ston Greco

Foros Timis Ston Greco

Infobox Album |
Name = Foros Timis Ston Greco


Type = Album
Artist = Vangelis
Background = Orange
Released = 1995
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Classical music
Length = 58m53s
Label = Warner Music
Producer = Vangelis
Reviews = -
Last album = "Voices (Vangelis album)" (1995)
This album = "Foros Timis Ston Greco" (1995)
Next album = "Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear)"
(1996) |

"Foros Timis Ston Greco" ("Φόρος Τιμής Στον Γκρέκο", lit. "A Tribute to El Greco") is a classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (as Vangelis Papathanassiou/Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου). The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Dominikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, 1541–1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco.

The album was published in 1995 as a limited edition of 3,000 CD-audios and sold exclusively at the National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum in Athens, Greece, which was raising funds to buy El Greco's painting "St. Peter". The luxurious packaging, in a dark-blue velvet box, included a 128-page coffee-table book, about El Greco's paintings, dedicated to Vangelis, and a digipack containing the CD. Each CD carried Vangelis' personal signature and a unique serial number. For such a special edition, the price was 30,000 drachmas (US $127), or, adjusted for Greek inflation as of 2006, 45,000 drachmas (132/$176).

Vangelis composed and arranged the album, and performed all the instruments, accompanied by a choir conducted by Ivan Cassar. The music is in a Byzantine style yet sounding contemporary due to his use of synthesizers. Soprano Montserrat Caballé and tenor Konstantinos Paliatsaras make guest appearances on one movement each.

A regular edition of the album was released worldwide in 1998, with three new tracks and a new title: "El Greco".

Track listing

# Μέρος/Movement I
# Μέρος/Movement II
# Μέρος/Movement III
# Μέρος/Movement IV
# Μέρος/Movement V
# Μέρος/Movement VI
# Μέρος/Movement VII

Movements III and V were included in Vangelis' compilation "Reprise 1990-1999" (2000).

References

* [http://www.elsew.com Dennis Lodewijks' Elsewhere]
* [http://www.vangelismovements.com/forostimisstongreko.htm Vangelis Movements]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • El Greco (album) — Not to be confused with El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a 2007 album also by Vangelis Infobox Album | Name = El Greco Type = Album Artist = Vangelis Background = Orange Released = October 19 1998 Recorded = 1995, 1998 Genre =… …   Wikipedia

  • El Greco — This article is about the artist of the Spanish Renaissance. For other uses, see El Greco (disambiguation). El Greco Portrait of An Old Man (presumed self portrait of El Greco), circa 1595–1600, oil on canvas, 52.7 × 46.7 cm, Metropolitan… …   Wikipedia

  • Posthumous fame of El Greco — El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Italian language for The Greek ,Ref label|A|α|none 1541 ndash; April 7, 1614) was a prominent painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, whose dramatic and expressionistic …   Wikipedia

  • El Greco (2007 film) — Infobox Film name=El Greco caption= director=Yannis Smaragdis writer=Screenplay: Jackie Pavlenko Yannis Smaragdis Book: Dimitris Siatopoulos producer=Eleni Smaragdi Raimon Masllorens Dénes Szekeres Georgios Fragkos starring=Nick Ashdon Juan Diego …   Wikipedia

  • El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — Infobox Album | Name = El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Type = Album Artist = Vangelis Released = December 20 2007 Recorded = 2007 Genre = Film score Length = Label = Universal Music SA Greece Producer = Vangelis Reviews = Last album …   Wikipedia

  • El Greco (disambiguation) — El Greco (1541 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco may also refer to:* Foros Timis Ston Greco (A Tribute to El Greco) , a 1995 album by Vangelis * El Greco (album), a 1998 album by Vangelis * El Greco …   Wikipedia

  • Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou — Vangelis (griechisch Βαγγέλης; * 29. März 1943 in Agria bei Volos, Griechenland; eigentlich Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου (Evangelos Odysseus Papathanassiou)) ist ein bekannter Komponist und auch einer der Pioniere der elektronischen Musik …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Vangelis — im Oktober 2007 Vangelis (griechisch Βαγγέλης; * 29. März 1943 in Agria bei Volos, Griechenland; eigentlich Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Vangelis Papathanassiou — Vangelis (griechisch Βαγγέλης; * 29. März 1943 in Agria bei Volos, Griechenland; eigentlich Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου (Evangelos Odysseus Papathanassiou)) ist ein bekannter Komponist und auch einer der Pioniere der elektronischen Musik …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Vangelis — en 2007. Datos generales Nacimiento 29 de marzo de 194 …   Wikipedia Español

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”