Stelios Petrakis: Orion - Music from Crete CD

A stunning assembly of highly talented musicians have gathered around Stelios Petrakis, an outstanding young composer and a virtuoso of the lyra, Crete's emblematic instrument. Powerful, poetic melodies and lyrics mark this musical suite evoking sun and wind, the ancestral elements at the basis of Cretan culture. Orion fell in love with Pleione, whose daughters were changed into stars (the Pleiades). Ancient myths and symbols, sun and light, the disappearance of evil and the struggle for an inaccessible ideal -- all contributed to this album dedicated to the legendary hunter of Greek mythology, now one of the most prominent constellations in the night sky.

FEATURED ARTISTS
Stelios Petrakis: lyra, luth, saz/and more

TRACK LISTING
Voreia Monoipatia
Opoios Ti Nyhta
Syrtos Dance
Orion and Pleione
To Alogaki tis Nyhtias
Kainouria Agapi