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 = Classical
Length = 72m36s
Label = EastWest/Atlantic (U.S.)
Producer = Vangelis
Reviews = -
Last album = "Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear)"
(1996)
This album = "El Greco"
(1998)
Next album = "Reprise 1990-1999"
(2000) |

"El Greco" is a 1998 classical album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis (born March 29, 1943). The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Dominikos Theotokópoulos, 1541 – 1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco.

This album is an expansion of an earlier album by Vangelis, "Foros Timis Ston Greco". That album had been released in 1995, in a limited edition. For this general release, the track order was rearranged, three new tracks were added, and the album title was changed.

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.

The album reached #66 in France and #74 in Germany.

Track listing

In parenthesis, correspondence to the track listing of "Foros Timis Ston Greco".

# Movement I "(Movement I)"
# Movement II "(Movement II)"
# Movement III "(new)"
# Movement IV "(Movement III)"
# Movement V "(new)"
# Movement VI "(Movement V)"
# Movement VII "(new)"
# Movement VIII "(Movement IV)"
# Movement IX "(Movement VI)"
# Movement X (Epilogue) "(Movement VII)"

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

References

[http://www.elsew.com Dennis Lodewijks' Elsewhere]