Finale version 25 response and verse text

( please using the right click of your mouse, and Open Link in Next Private Window, ) Song of songs - Maria Farandouri - The Ballad Of Mauthausen - Mikis Theodorakis One thing cannot change, however: the dedication I made to my grandfather, Bruno Venturi (1898-1978), who was a prisoner in and a survivor of Mauthausen, the вЂњCustoms HouseвЂќ. This album, indissolubly associated with Maria Farandouri's figure and voice, is a most important project of our website, now totally reshaped and restructured after years during which its songs have been scattered among various authors. The Ballad of Mauthausen includes, with no fear of exaggeration, not only some among the most famous and touching songs in the Greek language, but also among those dedicated to the extermination camps in any language.

The Ballad of Mauthausen is an historical composition by Mikis Theodorakis (originally recorded 1966 by Maria Farandouri including, four celebrated poems by the Greek poet and playwright Iakovos Kambanellis, drawn from his вЂњTПЃО№О»ОїОіОЇО± ОіО№О± ОњО±ОїП…П„П‡О¬ОїП…О¶ОµОЅвЂќ (Mauthausen Trilogy), and other six poems by Nikos Gatsos, Gerasimos Stavrou, Dimitris Christoudoulou and Tasos Livaditis, already recorded 1964 in the so-called 'Farandouri Cycle'. Maria Farandouri has the perfect 'timbre' to sing this kind of song. Such a kind of powerful dramatic ballads with a distinctly feel for 'pathos' is seldom heard in modern music.

The 4 songs have lyrics of the poet Iakovos Kambanellis who passed two years of his life (1943-45) in the terrible Mauthausen camp in Austria and survived.ДЄbsolutely the best way the life in Concentration Camp lyrically described.Д®ven if you don't understand modern Greek.you can feel the anger ,the pain, the hope and the 'dГ©sespoir'. Soul-stirring album of Mikis Theodorakis dedicated to all those who experienced the cruelty of fascism and resisted.

Finale version 25 response and verse text