The Chariots Of Fire theme performed by Vangelis as an encore of the Mythodea Concert at t
The Chariots Of Fire theme performed by Vangelis as an encore of the Mythodea Concert at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on June 28, 2001.
The soundtrack of "Chariots of Fire" won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score back in 1981. It spent 5 months in the US Billboard and it was the biggest-selling single of the year in Japan. It was also used by the BBC as the opening theme for the coverage of the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
"Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey" is a choral symphony composed by Vangelis. It was made the official theme music of the 2001 NASA mission to Mars, involving an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the planet.
Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Vangelis.
Electronic Keyboards by Vangelis.
The London Metropolitan Orchestra
Blake Neely, Conductor.
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C.P.Cavafy's poem 'Ithaca', recited by Sir Sean Connery and with music specially composed
C.P.Cavafy's poem 'Ithaca', recited by Sir Sean Connery and with music specially composed by Vangelis. Scenes taken from Ron Fricke's film 'Baraka'.
ITHACA
As you set out for Ithaca
hope that your journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare sensasion
touches your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope that your journey is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind-
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and learn again from those who know.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so that you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.
Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would have not set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithacas mean.
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The theme of the film "Blade Runner" (1982), composed by Vangelis.
It is only heard dur
The theme of the film "Blade Runner" (1982), composed by Vangelis.
It is only heard during the end titles of the movie, along with some flyover shots (outtakes) from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining". Unfortunately they don't last long enough to enjoy it so I gathered some similar scenes to combine them with Vangelis's music. In the first half of the video I tried to maintain a pace similar to the original end titles and then I speed it up a bit..
Flyover shots from the films: The Shining, Koyaanisqatsi, Chronos, Winged Migration & Mar Adentro.
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The orchestral piece "Zorba's Return" from Mikis Theodorakis's Zorbas Ballet Suite.
Sc
The orchestral piece "Zorba's Return" from Mikis Theodorakis's Zorbas Ballet Suite.
Scenes from the IMAX film "Greece: Secrets of the Past". Filmed at the locations: Milos, Santorini, Athens, Corinth Canal, Cape Sounio, Delos, Piraeus.
Music composed by Mikis Theodorakis.
Lyrics by Iacovos Cambanellis.
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
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Metastasis or Metastaseis ("dialectic transformations"), is an orchestral work by Iannis X
Metastasis or Metastaseis ("dialectic transformations"), is an orchestral work by Iannis Xenakis, a Greek composer-architect and a major figure in the postwar development of musical modernism worldwide. He is particularly remembered for the pioneering use of stochastic mathematical techniques in his compositions, including probability (Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases, aleatory distribution of points on a plane, minimal constraints, Gaussian distribution, Markov chains), game theory, group theory, Boolean algebra and Brownian motion.
Metastasis was inspired by Einstein's view of time (a function of matter & energy) and structured on mathematical ideas by Xenakis's colleague Le Corbusier. The 1st and 3rd movements don't have a melodic theme to hold them together, but rather depend on the strength of this conceptualization of time. The 2nd movement does have some sort of melodic element. A fragment of a 12-tone row is used, with durations based on the Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...)
The preliminary sketch for Metastasis was in graphic notation looking more like a blueprint than a musical score, showing graphs of mass motion and glissandi like structural beams of the piece, with sound frequencies on one axis and time on the other. In this video I tried to display this by presenting the frequency spectrum (0-20.000Hz) of the piece and how Xenakis actually "drew" music.
SWF Symphony Orchestra
Hans Rosbaud, conductor
October 1955
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The greek-orthodox easter hymn "Christos Anesti" ("Christ is risen") performed by Vangelis
The greek-orthodox easter hymn "Christos Anesti" ("Christ is risen") performed by Vangelis and sung by actress Irene Papas. Track from the 1986 Vangelis CD "Rapsodies".
Scenes from the films: Night to Light, Baraka, Chronos, Engineering an Empire: The Byzantines, 2, Eurovision 2006, Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony, BBC Time Machine, BBC Planet Earth.
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