The Fall of Constantinople, Vol. 2: My Beloved City

Artist: Various Artists
Label: FM Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 723723381323
EAN: 0723723381323
ASIN: B00000DDD7

Release Date: 1998-10-06

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Tracks:

A Girl Sang - Sabina Yiannatou/Stavros Beris
Three Cretan Monks - Chrys. Mitropanos
Three Cretan Monks - Nicos Constantinopoulos
Today The Churches Chant - Eleni Koutalakidou
Today The Churches Chant - Nicos Constantinopoulos
All The Churches Were Chanting - Tassos Aloupis/Pericles Papapetropoulos
All The Churches Were Chanting - Irene Derebey
When Angels Were Founding The 'City' - Early Music Workshop
All The Days Of God - Irene Derebey
Among Three Seas - Chrysostomos Mitropanos
Your Pigeons Fly - Myrsini Katsinavaki
On, Ship, Little Shop - Tassos Aloupis
The Little Ship - Irene Derebey
The Greek Ships - Panayiotis Papas
Like The Marble Of The City - Tassos Aloupis
The Evzone Guard - St. Euthymios Chor, Keratsini/D. Kanaris
The Holy Grail Of St. Sophia - St. Euthymios Chor, Keratsini/D. Kanaris
They Took The City, They Took It - Julia Souglakou/Early Music Workshop Chor/G. Constantzos
Heave, Ho! - St. Euthymios Chor, Keratsini/D. Kanaris
Five Hundred Years Have Passed - Fany Noussia/Stavros Beris
The Smyrna-Girl And The City-Girl - Donatella Tsitsarou
Oh, City, Constantinople - Mendis Bostatzoglou

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely beautiful.......2003-04-07

You don't have to be a Grecophile to love this music, though anyone with Greek ancestry is guaranteed to go wild over it. Unlike the Zorba-esqe freneticism some might associate with Greek music, these songs are soulful, melodious, dignified, and even majestic. And it's easy to see that both the Greeks and the Turks share a lot of culture apart from just food. For many Greeks, especially practicing Orthodox, the fall of Constantinople is something that happened yesterday, it seems. A tuneful, hauntingly beautiful melancholy mixed with a strange and mystical joy that is so characteristic of the best in Greek music is all here. Buy this record. I played it twice through the day I got it, and then loaned it to a Greek friend, who did the same. Now I want to get it back a.s.a.p so I can immerse myself in it again.

So Beautiful and so Sad.......1999-02-13

I was suprised when I first listened to this album, the music is similar to Middle East and Indian Music, However, being that the songs all pertain to the fall of the Byzantine State in 1453, the songs all convey an undescribable sadness. The CD packaging explains that they are all lamentations, but at the same time, there is a deep sense of pride and optimisim in the more recent choral pieces at the end of the album, which date to the Greek indepenence movement in the 1820's. I had not been exposed to Greek Music before, although my Academic field is Byzantine Studies. Overall, I was pleasantly suprised with the Album, and would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Greece, from the Mideval period to the present.

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