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Wagner  to Franz Liszt:

"Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion. I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the ‘black flag’ that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die"

Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Prelude

George Frideric Handel - Sarabande (Piano)

Jacques Offenbach - Barcarolle, "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"

Summer  From Four Seasons Mari Samuelsen

Canzonetta sull’aria

Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata No 20 In A Major
Winter Sleep از موسیقی فیلم خواب زمستانی

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No 20 In A Major

Romance Larghetto - Chopin

Excerpted from a complete performance in collaboration with the Amherst College Choral Society, the exciting second movement of the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi as performed by the Amherst Symphony Orchestra.

Verdi Requiem: "Dies Irae"

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (cover) Elisabeth Karatzoli With KARMA Live

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

Beethoven Symphony No. 7, II Allegretto

The Train Leaves At Eight

Vocal: Maria Farantouri
Music: Mikis Theodorakis


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To treno fevgi stis okto (Το τρένο φεύγει στις οχτώ)

 
Το τρένο φεύγει στις οχτώ
ταξίδι για την Κατερίνη
Νοέμβρης μήνας δε θα μείνει
να μη θυμάσαι στις οχτώ
να μη θυμάσαι στις οχτώ
το τρένο για την Κατερίνη
Νοέμβρης μήνας δε θα μείνει
Σε βρήκα πάλι ξαφνικά
να πίνεις ούζο στου Λευτέρη
νύχτα δε θα 'ρθει σ' άλλα μέρη
να 'χεις δικά σου μυστικά
να 'χεις δικά σου μυστικά
και να θυμάσαι ποιος τα ξέρει
νύχτα δε θα 'ρθει σ' άλλα μέρη
Το τρένο φεύγει στις οχτώ
μα εσύ μονάχος έχεις μείνει
σκοπιά φυλάς στην Κατερίνη
μες στην ομίχλη πέντε οχτώ
μες στην ομίχλη πέντε οχτώ
μαχαίρι στη καρδιά σου εγίνη
σκοπιά φυλάς στην Κατερίνη



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The Train Leaves at Eight

The train leaves at eight o’clock
for a trip to Katerini
that month November will not come
that eight o’clock you won’t remember
that eight o’clock you won’t remember
the train going to Katerini
that month November will not come
I met you again recently
sipping your ouzo by Lefteris
night won’t come to another place
having your very own secrets
having your very own secrets
and to recall who knows them too
night won’t come to another place
The train leaves at eight o’clock
but all alone you have remained
guarding your post in Katerini
five to eight in the fog
five to eight in the fog
turned into a knife in your heart
guarding your post in Katerini


The Train Leaves At Eight

Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle, Agathe's aria from Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber (1821).
Recorded in 2000 in the trailer recording studio of Nashville artist Dobie Toms in the Appalachian Mountains. He usually recorded Country music so there was no piano on site. The only one we could find was this awful tinny sounding synthesizer and my accompanist Peggy Hooper made it sound better than it was. They were just sung straight through and recorded as is. I remember it costs me $500 to record 12 songs. This was a fortune for me at this time but I'm so glad I have this record of my developing voice during this period. I was 26 and 2 years later I moved to Vienna, Austria.
Studio portrait for my Opera Portfolio ca. 1998-99 (24-25 years old).

Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle, "Der Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber (1821)

Sunflower Theme Music

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17 Mozart Clarinet Concerto In A Major K622 Adagio

Samuel Barber Adagio For Strings

Johannes Brahms - Waltz in A Flat Major Op.39, No.15

O Fortuna (O Fortune)
Velut luna (like the moon)
Statu variabilis (you are changeable)
Semper crescis (ever waxing)
Aut decrescis; (and waning;)
Vita detestabilis (hateful life)
Nunc obdurat (first oppresses)
Et tunc curat (and then soothes)
Ludo mentis aciem, (as fancy takes it)
Egestatem, (poverty)
Potestatem (and power)
Dissolvit ut glaciem. (it melts them like ice.)
Sors immanis (Fate - monstrous)
Et inanis, (and empty)
Rota tu volubilis, (you whirling wheel)
Status malus, (you are malevolent)
Vana salus (well-being is vain)
Semper dissolubilis, (and always fades to nothing)
Obumbrata (shadowed)
Et velata (and veiled)
Michi quoque niteris; (you plague me too;)
Nunc per ludum (now through the game)
Dorsum nudum (I bring my bare back)
Fero tui sceleris. (to your villainy.)

Sors salutis (Fate is against me)
Et virtutis (in health)
Michi nunc contraria, (and virtue)
Est affectus (driven on)
Et defectus (and weighted down)
Semper in angaria. (always enslaved.)
Hac in hora (So at this hour)
Sine mora (without delay)
Corde pulsum tangite; (pluck the vibrating strings;)
Quod per sortem (since Fate)
Sternit fortem, (strikes down the string)
Mecum omnes plangite! (everyone weep with me!)

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana-O Fortuna (Andre Rieu-Amsterdam Arena)

The Marriage of Figaro Overture - Mozart - Leeds Sinfonia Orchestra

Cello: Nil Kocamangil
Piano: Kira Ratner

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