05-21-2006, 07:42 AM
Waiting for Susanna... 
Well, while we are waiting for Susanna, some more information, which could be interesting for somebody.
For those who would like to listen to Musica Romana (Susanna herself is playing!!!
http://www.emmuty.de/katalog/EM020.php
Also I want to mention one more CD, which could be interesting for you.
Search the following link:
http://www.cd-baroque.com/francais/3600 ... ylos&B1=OK
You could find CD by Annie Belis and Ensemble Kerylos "Ancient Greek Music" (15 tracks). CD presents mostly the same pieces which you could find on CDs by Atrium Musicae of Madrid (without fragments of doubtful origin) and Ensemble De Organographia (on their CDs - mentioned above - you would find 33 tracks of Ancient Greek music, they recorded some fragments founded in Oxyrynchus in the last decades). Of course, you would hear music by Mesomedes of Crete, friend and musician of Emperor Hadrian. The sound of this CD by Annie Belis is big and solemn with mezzo-soprano by Genevieve Bousquet. It is a kind of Baroque version of Ancient Greek music.
Well, it is philosophical question, why we need so much versions of the same pieces? And some could answer in post-modern style, that we are listening not to Ancient Greek and Roman music but to the music of modern performers, so the value of this records is low, it`s only modern mind game.
But why we are wathcing "Hamlet" in different versions and still it is interesting? I think that it is interesting because of the global humane ideas by Shakespeare, not because of actor playing or new tricks by the directors in the cinema or in the theater.
So I think that each new performance (even not truely authentic and accurate) helps us to understand this music and the culture of Antique world a little bit better - probably the quantity of the records and performances would turn into new quality. As I read the first performances of Delphic hymnes in the end of the 19th century (of course on modern instruments) were complete disillussion for the listeneres while now we are used to the world music and we are enjoing these records.
Probably as in Renaissance epoch Italian composers in attempt to re-create Ancient Greek tradition of singing and playing music in theatrical plays invented opera - we also would see not only new level of understanding of Ancient Greek and Roman music but we would see the appearance of new art forms?
Well, while we are waiting for Susanna, some more information, which could be interesting for somebody.
For those who would like to listen to Musica Romana (Susanna herself is playing!!!
http://www.emmuty.de/katalog/EM020.php
Also I want to mention one more CD, which could be interesting for you.
Search the following link:
http://www.cd-baroque.com/francais/3600 ... ylos&B1=OK
You could find CD by Annie Belis and Ensemble Kerylos "Ancient Greek Music" (15 tracks). CD presents mostly the same pieces which you could find on CDs by Atrium Musicae of Madrid (without fragments of doubtful origin) and Ensemble De Organographia (on their CDs - mentioned above - you would find 33 tracks of Ancient Greek music, they recorded some fragments founded in Oxyrynchus in the last decades). Of course, you would hear music by Mesomedes of Crete, friend and musician of Emperor Hadrian. The sound of this CD by Annie Belis is big and solemn with mezzo-soprano by Genevieve Bousquet. It is a kind of Baroque version of Ancient Greek music.
Well, it is philosophical question, why we need so much versions of the same pieces? And some could answer in post-modern style, that we are listening not to Ancient Greek and Roman music but to the music of modern performers, so the value of this records is low, it`s only modern mind game.
But why we are wathcing "Hamlet" in different versions and still it is interesting? I think that it is interesting because of the global humane ideas by Shakespeare, not because of actor playing or new tricks by the directors in the cinema or in the theater.
So I think that each new performance (even not truely authentic and accurate) helps us to understand this music and the culture of Antique world a little bit better - probably the quantity of the records and performances would turn into new quality. As I read the first performances of Delphic hymnes in the end of the 19th century (of course on modern instruments) were complete disillussion for the listeneres while now we are used to the world music and we are enjoing these records.
Probably as in Renaissance epoch Italian composers in attempt to re-create Ancient Greek tradition of singing and playing music in theatrical plays invented opera - we also would see not only new level of understanding of Ancient Greek and Roman music but we would see the appearance of new art forms?
