The music of ancient Greece
Lucie Skeaping talks to Prof Armand D'Angour of Jesus College Oxford about the music and poetry of ancient Greece, from Homer to Mesomedes via Sappho, Euripides, Pindar and Athenaeus.
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Traditional Ancient Greece
Daktylos amera (excerpt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Melpomen. -
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Sappho
Brothers' Poem
Singer: Stef Conner. -
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Traditional Ancient Greece
Prelude & Improvisation on the anonymous 'Bellermann' exercise
Composer: Callum Armstrong. Performer: Callum Armstrong. -
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Pindar
12th Pythian Ode
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Singer: Stef Conner. -
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螘蠀蚁喂蟺委未畏蟼
Orestes (excerpt)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Director: Tosca Lynch. Choir: University of Oxford scholars. -
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Callum Armstrong
Improvisation
Composer: Traditional Ancient Greece. Performer: Callum Armstrong. -
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Athenaeus
First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Ensemble: Atrium Music忙 de Madrid. -
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Athenaeus
First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Director: Tosca Lynch. Choir: University of Oxford scholars. -
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Limenius
2nd Delphic Hymn to Apollo (excerpt)
Ensemble: Atrium Music忙 de Madrid. -
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Mesomedes of Crete
Song Fragments
Singer: Stef Conner. -
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Traditional Ancient Greece
Seikilos Epitaph
Composer: Armand D'Angour. Performer: Barnaby Brown. Singer: Stef Conner. -
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Traditional Ancient Greece
Christian Hymn of Oxyrhynchus
Ensemble: Atrium Music忙 de Madrid.
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