LyrAvlos

1st Stasimon from "Orestes"
(a tragedy by Euripides, 5th c. b.C.)

Live recording
Festival of Old Music, Stockholm, 2003

A musical piece surviving in part, a transcription dated back to about 200 b.C., written on a papyrus. Euripides, just as most of the poets of ancient drama, wrote himself the music of his works.

Vangelis Maniatis : Vocals
Anna Chronopoulou : Vocals
P. Stefos : Diavlos, Syrinx
Christine Siaki : Lyre
Solis Barki : Percussion

First Delphic Hymn
Athenaeus

A work presented at Delphi (127 b.C. - late hellenistic era) and was inscribed on the external wall of the Treasury of Athens, where it survived.

Michael Stefos : Vocals, Tumpanum
Christine Siaki : Pandoura
P. Stefos : Syrinx of Pan

Epitaph of Seikilus
(1st c. A.D.)

Although it belongs to a sort of songs named 'skolia', songs of wine, it is about a small yet comprehensive comment on welfare. It was found written on a small grave-column.

Michael Stefos : Vocals, Tympanum
Anastasia Eden : Vocals, percussion
P. Stefos : Lyre, Air by Shells
Christine Siaki : Lyre, seistrum

Hymn to Nemesis

Mesomedes, 2nd c. A.D.
Mesomedes was a musician from Crete, official composer of emperor Adrian. There have survived four of his works for voice and strings. This hymn is dedicated to the daughter of Justice, that is Nemesis. It is characterised by a lively and austere rhythm, fitting to the content of the poetical text as a glorifying invocation to a goddess that arouses emotions of fear and respect.

Michael Stefos : Vocals, tympanum
Anastasia Eden : Vocals
P. Stefos : Lyre
Christine Siaki : Lyre

Hymn to the Muse

Mesomedes, 2nd c. A.D.
For Mesomedes read the note to the previous piece.

Anastasia Eden : Vocals, percussion
Christine Siaki : Lyre, seistrum

Ancient Christian Hymn to the Holy Trinity

From the papyrus of Oxyrynchus (3rd c. A.D.), in ancient Greek alphabetic musical notation.

Michael Stefos (Vocals) - Chorus

Pan

From Sophocles' Aias

Music by Panagiotis Stefos.
The surviving musical texts do not include an important piece of the ancient Greek music, which was related with bacchanal worship, having an intense dionysian character. In this piece, dedicated to the cloven-hoofed god Pan, there is attempted by Lyravlos an approach to that style.

Michael Stefos : Vocals, tympanum, shells, Avlos
Anastasia Eden : Vocals
P. Stefos : Narration, Syrinx, Diavlos, Avlos, Shells
Christine Siaki : Pandoura

Aeschylus' Choephoroi

Music by Panagiotis Stefos.

P. Stefos : Syrinx of Pan
M. Stefos : Shells, tympanum

Apollo and Marsyas

Music by Panagiotis Stefos.
For ancient Greek Lyre and Syrinx of Pan

P. Stefos : Syrinx
Christine Siaki : Lyre

Manes

Traditional song of Smyrna

Arranged by P. Stefos
P. Stefos : Solo Syrinx of Pan

Tzivaeri

Traditional sea song

Arranged by P. Stefos
P. Stefos : Syrinx of Pan
M. Stefos : Syrinx of Pan, Air by Shells