Thalia 2004

Orpheus was the child of Apollo, the god of music, and Calliope, the eldest of the muses. With his playing, he was able to enchant people and to tame wild animals. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most beautiful mythological stories about the power of love. No wonder Claudio Monteverdi, the father of early opera, chose this story as the theme of his legendary work. During this musical journey, we are led by the muses, and following in Orpheus’s footsteps, we reach the goal of the music marked out by Monteverdi: to touch the soul of listeners, to awaken their feelings, and to speak to the heart.

Diamanda Galás In Concert is not simply a live album. With nothing but a piano and the full expressive range of her extraordinary voice, Diamanda Galás strips away the comforting patina of time, tradition and stylistic convention to expose and express the raw human emotion that is the living heart of a song. It explores an eclectic range of material; rembetika, soul, ranchera, country and free jazz, and her passionate eviscerations reveal their hidden kinship. Four of the songs-O Prósfigas, La Llorona, Let My People Go, and Ánoixe Pétra are for and by the forsaken, outcast and debased; the other three are hardboiled love songs.

Diamanda Galás In Concert is not simply a live album. With nothing but a piano and the full expressive range of her extraordinary voice, Diamanda Galás strips away the comforting patina of time, tradition and stylistic convention to expose and express the raw human emotion that is the living heart of a song. It explores an eclectic range of material; rembetika, soul, ranchera, country and free jazz, and her passionate eviscerations reveal their hidden kinship. Four of the songs-O Prósfigas, La Llorona, Let My People Go, and Ánoixe Pétra are for and by the forsaken, outcast and debased; the other three are hardboiled love songs.