GD 223 THYEPOLEO Orphic Mysterial Rites
Music by Georgi Arnaoudov
Chamber Ensemble
Conducted by Theodora PAVLOVICH
Issued: 2000
Style: Ethno Music
Company: Gega New, GD223
The famous Bulgarian scholar and explorer of the culture of old Thrace, Prof. Alexander Fol, and the composer Georgi Arnaudov, have tried to make past and present meet. The music is performed by a chamber ensemble directed by Theodora Pavlovitch, and consisting of four singers, old stringed and percussion instruments, as well as harp, lyra, etc. The composer has revealed his feeling and his ideas of musical recreation of different hymns. In some of the pieces the human voice is leading, in others, the "action" is done by the instruments, but everywhere the energy of the timbres, of the different volumes and pitches of sound, and its resources to create pictures and exert emotional influence are used. In the very beginning Prof. Fol stresses that "music is the universal cosmic language. The cosmos is rhythm and sound"! Led by this maxim Georgi Arnaudov has created original music in the literary context of Alexander Fol. It possesses a brightly individual character and typical rhythmic and melodic structure, which carry the spirit of a distant and at the same time, comprehensible age. An age when the striving to be initiated and to perfect oneself spiritually while climbing the steps towards True Knowledge, is combined with purifying wisdom, with searching for interrelations with the Cosmos and the Divine.
This CD is a unique phenomenon and a successful attempt to penetrate into an abstract matter that has always been attracting the people of the Spirit, created more than three thousand years ago by some of the inhabitants of Thrace.
Contents:
• Prayer to All Gods I
• Hymn to Protogonos (No. 6)
• Hymn to Helios (No. 8)
• Hymn to the Mother of the Gods (No. 27)
• Hymn to Dionysus (No. 30)
• Hymn to Semele (No. 44)
• Hymn to Sabazius (No. 48)
• Hymn to Hypta (No. 49)
• Prayer to All Gods II
• Hymn to Satyr Silenus (No. 54)
• Hymn to Eros (No. 58)
• Prayer to All Gods III
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