Greek
Classic's Masterpieces: Dionysios Solomos
Members of PolyPhonia
have mainly contributed to the third and fifth track. The music in the first and
fifth track is composed by the director of PolyPhonia, Nikolaos
Kotrokois.
Hymn
to Liberty
The hymn comprises 158 stanzas, in which Liberty is identified with Orthodox
Hellas. The thematic parts included in the selected excerpts are the ancient
splendor, the sufferings of slavery, the sensation caused by the Greek struggle,
the upmost instants of Tripolitsa and Messologgi, the victorious sea battles and,
last, the Liberty's desperate appeal to the Greek people for unity and
fraternity.
The
noted musician Nikolaos Mantzaros, a close friend of the poet Solomos, composed
music for 24 stanzas. The first two ones were enacted as the Greece's National
Anthem on 1856.
To a Nun
Angels are descending from heaven to praise the lady who is entering the
monastic life. " ... (Solomos) managed, together with the sanctity of
virginity, to illustrate with plasticity the most mystical concepts of
Christianity, Christ's divine love for His creature in the archetypal gracious
image of His still Bride, the Creation, a mystery which the christian poet
explains juxtaposing the other mystery, the Resurrection, ... " [I. Polylas]
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