a stasimo"Orestes"by Euripides ancient greek music

[ClarenceDoskocil]

The women also remind me of the Caryatids from the Erechtheion.

[exelpaperclip123]

It's so amazing how this is over 2,000 years old and it can still be played. Just amazing!

[sunsdomain]

Absolutely fascinating, makes my skin crawl (in the best way) to hear music so ancient.

[mircavalcante]

"You wild goddesses who dart across the skies seeking vengeance for murder, we implore you to free Agamemnon's son from his raging fury... We grieve for this boy. Happiness is brief among mortals. Sorrow and anguish sweep down on it like a swift gust of wind on a sloop, and it sinks under the tossing seas."

[RageOfMercy]

scary

[altyair]

Masterpiece.

[TheVrilissia]

the begin of culture..of europe..greece!!!!!!

[dudzzzz22]

I didn't like it :S it's freaky :S

[maedrosGR]

@dudzzzz22 then it worked.

[dudzzzz22]

@maedrosGR Lol yeah we heard it at history class in musicology, and everyone was like what is that music? o.O

[pavenos]

Ο ήχος από χαμένους λόγους η ιδέα της μουσικής

The sound of lost grounds The idea of music

[pepperedmoth]

I like it, but it bugs me to no end that there is A PIANO going on!

[pavenos]

Που είσαι Ευριπίδη το νερό στέρεψε και ο Απόλλωνας … θαρρείς πώς πια σου μιλά από της πεσμένες κολόνες, αλλά μόνο ακατέργαστους ήχους..

[pavenos]

@pavenos You're Euripides water dried up and Apollo ... now think you speak for the fallen columns, but only sounds

[ClarenceDoskocil]

I have several musical versions of this and I must say this is outstanding. The visual impact is striking. "I groan, I groan, thinking of the blood of your mother, the blood that drives you mad. Good fortune has no stability among mortals: like the sail of a speeding boat, a god rocks it and engulfs it in horrible misfortune, fatal, voracious as the waves of the sea. Translation from Petros Tabouris: Music of Greek Antiquity (A great reconstruction also).

[AiasAthineos]

Best band in the world maybe?

[nr900]

I think this is from Tool's new album.

[FenixBirdOfFire]

τι ωραια μουσικη!κριμα που δεν ακουγεται πολυ καλα η αρπα

[cundiencia]

of course