•      MARILENA ZLATANOU - SPECIMEN PROGRAMMES

  • AROUND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN (solo voice, lute and fidle)
    Hymn from 3rd cent. (no. 59 PAP. OXY. 1786, Egypt)
    Palestinalied     (Walther von den Vogelweide, 1228 crusade)
    Gente sans per     and Plaisant regart from the French – Cypriot manuscript (13th cent)
    O Digenis     and San tis Orias to kastro: 2 folk songs from Byzantine Greece
    Questa fanciulla amor     and Ecco la primavera by Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
    Quant je suis mis     and Mes esperis by Guilhaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
    Pois tornaz sui en Proensa     by troubadour Peire Vidal (c 1160-1205)
    Non es meravelha s’eu chan     and Can vei la lauzeta by troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn
    El sueno de la hija del rey    , Sephardic Jewish
    Mariam matrem     (from Llibre vermeil) and Como poden (from cantigas de Santa Maria)

  • AROUND THE NORTH SEA OF THE MIDDLE AGES
    Miri it is
    Angelus ad virginem
    Beata viscera
    Instr. britisk
    Edi beo thu
    Ja nuns hons pris     (Richard the Lionheart)
    Alle psalite cum luya
    Vivre touz tens     (Thibaut de Navarre)
    Retrowange novelle     (Jacques de Cambrai), Instr.
    Tristre plaisir et douloureuse joie     (Gilles Binchois)
    Fas et nefas (    from Carmina Burana)
    Der May     (Oswald von Wolkenstein)
    Ach senleiches leiden     (Oswald von Wolkenstein)
    Ach Elselein, liebes Elselein
    Den förtrollade barnaföderskan
    Personent hodie (    from Piae Cantiones)

  • WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM THE RENAISSANCE AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS  (solo voice and choir a cappella)
    ANON , chanson de toile, 12. cent.: Belle Doette  (solo)
    KASSIA (810-843/867?)  Den falne kvinnen (solo), Augustus, The Monarch 
    HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179):O viridissima virga (solo), excerpts from Ordo virtutum (soli+choir)
    SULPITIA CESIS (1577-1619): Maria Magdalena et altera Maria, Stabat Mater, Il mio piu vago sole (choir a cap.)
    RAPHAELA ALEOTTA (1574-1646): Exurgat Deus  (choir a cap.)

  • WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD(solo voice and fidle)
    ANON , chanson de toile, 12. cent.: Belle Doett    e, Au renouvel du tens
    KASSIA (810-843/867?)  Den falne kvinnen (solo), Augustus, The Monarch 
    HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179):O viridissima virga (solo), excerpts from Ordo virtutum
         MADAME DE FAYEL (12. hundretallet) Chanterai por mon coraige
    CONTESA DE DIA (12. hundretallet)     A chantar

  • RENAISSANCE MUSIC REP. FOR SOLO VOICE / THEORBE 
    BARTOLOMEO TROMBONCINO(c. 1487) Aqua noen e l' humor
    COSIMO BOTTTEGARI (1554-1620): Mi parto
    JACOPO PERI (1561-1633 ):O miei giorni fugaci
    GIULIO CACCINI (1550-1618):Amarilli
    FRANCESCA CACCINI (1587-1640): Per la piu vaga…
    GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643): Non mi negate, Se l' aura spira
     CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643): Lamento d' Arianna
    J. B. BESARD (1603):     Ma belle si ton ame, Si jamais mon ame blessee, Rosette pour un peu d' absence
    JOHN  ECCLES (1668-1735): T    he foolish Maid, I burn, I burn
    JOHN  DOWLAND(1563-1626):     Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me, Flow my Tears, Fine knacks for Ladies
    HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695):     What shall I do to Show, I Attempt from Love's Sickness To Fly
    ANON:     Two songs from Shakespeare's plays, Greensleeves

  • WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM THE BAROQUE PERIOD (2 singers / theorbe / vla da gamba)
    LUCRETIA VIZZANA (1590-1662): Ornaverunt faciem templi, O invictissima Christi martir (duetti)  
    ELISABETH CLAUDE JACQUET DE LA GUERRE (1665-1729):Le Passage de la Mer Rouge (solo cantata)
    CATERINA ASSANDRA (1590-1620): O dulcis amor Jesu (duet)
    BARBARA STROZZI (1619-1664): Per tutti li Confessori  (solo cantata)
    FRANCESCA CACCINI (1587-1640): O che nuovo stupor (aria), Himno Jesu corona Virginum  (aria)
    CHIARA MARGARITA COZZOLANI (1602-1677): O dulcis Jesu (duet)
    ISABELLA LEONARDA (1620-1704): Spes mondane (op.6)

  • LOVE IN THE BAROQUE PERIOD  voice and b. continuo
    FRANCESCA CACCINI (1587-1640): 2 songs from the opera:"La liberazione di  Ruggiero dall' isola d' Alcina"
    CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643):Lamento d'Arianna
    ANTONIO VIVALDI (678-1741): Qual per ignoto calle, RV 677(Cantata per contralto e basso continuo)
    HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695): Man is for the woman made, Oh! Lead me to some peacefull gloom,
    I attempt from Love's sickness to fly, Sweeter than Roses     
    GEO    RG FRIEDRICH HANDEL 1685-1759): Lucrezia (solo cantata)

  • BAROQUE CHURCH MUSIC  PROGRAMME 2 singers+ organ /orch.
    GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI (1710-1736): STABAT  MATER, SALVE REGINA

  • BAROQUE CHURCH MUSIC PROGRAMME  for alto, 2 violins, viola and continuo
    GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN(1681-1767): Ach Herr, straffe misch nicht
    GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL(1685-1759): Ah! Che troppo ineguali
    JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH(1685-1750): Solo cantata nr.  53:      Schlage doch gewünschte Stunde,
    Solo cantata nr. 170    : Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust
    ANTONIO VIVALDI(1678-1741):     Stabat Mater RV 621

  • WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM THE CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC PERIODS (voice and piano, choir a cap.)
    ISABELLA COLBRAN (1785-1845): Mi lagnero tacendo  
    MARIA SZYMANOWSKA (1789-1831): Se spiegar 
    CLARA WIECK SCHUMANN (1819-1896): Sie liebten sich Beide, Declaration    , Abendfeier in Venedig, Vorwärts (choir a cap.)
    FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL (1805-1847): Schöne Fremde  (choir a cap.)
    PAULINE VIARDOT GARCIA (1821-1910):, Auf Grusiens HügelN, Mitternächtige Bilder, Die Beschwörung
    ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER (1879-1964): Licht in den Nacht, Erntelied
    EVA DELL' ACQUA (1860-?):     Villanelle

  • WOMEN COMPOSERS FROM THE ROMANTIC AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS (voice and piano)
    CECILIE ORE (1954-  ): Calliope for female voice a     cappella
    PAULINE HALL (1890-1969): Fangens aftensang, Jag är ett träd
    AGATHE BACKER GRØNDAHL (1847-1907): Valborgsnatt op 31 nr. 8, Hvorfor hyller de  sorte hunde, Storm
    MON SCHJELDRUP (1870-1934): Huldre-sang  op 21,Det gyldenhvite himmellys op 63,
    Ack, aldrig någon om min kärlek vetat op 63 
    SIGNE LUND (1868-1950): Folkevise op 27, Til et barn op 22 nr 3, Selfdependance
    SYNNE SKOUEN (1950-  ): Rosa for sopran med klaver og lydbånd  (Inspired by Alma Mahler’s fate)

  • LOVE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD soprano, alto, piano
     GIOACCHINO  ROSSINI (1792-1868): La regatta Veneziana (duet)
    PAULINE VIARDOT (1821-1910): Lamento (solo)
    ANTONIN DVORAK (1841-1904):  Mein Lied ertönt ein Liebespsalm  (fra op 55) (solo)
    From op 32, 4 duets: A Ja ti uplynu (nr. 1), Zalata (nr. 10),V dobrym sme se sesli  (nr. 4),
    Zelenaj se, zelenaj…(nr. 11)
    FRANZ  SCHUBERT (1797-1828): Im Frûhling (solo),Gretchen am Spinnrade (solo)
    PIOTR I. CHAIKOVSKY(1840-1893): April, piano solo
    ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856): An den Abendstern (duet), Liebesliedl (solo),Sommerruh (duet),
    An die Nachtigall  (duet)
    JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897): Walpurgisnacht  (duet), Von Ewiger Liebe (solo), Die Schwestern  (duet)

  • GREEK PROGRAMME FOR VOICE AND GUITAR 
    Hymn to Appollo Ύμνος στον Απόλλωνα  ANON, 2. cent. BC
    DINOS CONSTANTINIDES (1929- ):Delphic Hymn      Δελφικός Ύμνος
    DIMITRI NICOLAU  (1946- ): Maren lai,     Piccolo madrigale op. 119, La contessa e il contadinono
    MANOS HATZIDAKIS (1925-1994): 2 "moon songs":     Πάμε μια βόλτα στο φεγγάρι Το φεγγάρι είναι κόκκινο
     MIKIS THEODORAKIS (1925- ): 4 songs from EPITAFIOS, The Dream Went Up In Smoke To όνειρο καπνός
    MANOS LOIZOS (1937-1982): Good morning, sun! Καλημέρα ήλιε

  • GREEK PROGRAMME FOR VOICE AND PIANO
    Songs by JIANNIS KONSTANTINIDIS (1903-1984)
    MANOS HATZIDAKIS(1925-1994)
    MIKIS THEODORAKIS (1925- )
    EMILIOS RIADIS (1886-1935) (3     μοιρολόγια σε ποίηση Κ. Παλαμά 3 dirges on poetry by Kostis Palamas)
    ALKIS BALTAS (1947-) (    Μικροτραγουδα Mikrotragouda)
    folksongs, ancient greek fragments etc.

  • SOLO VOICE A CAPPELLA
     DIMITRI NICOLAU  (1946- ):Opera Audition, op 227 A lyrical comic scene for voice soloist (written for M.Z.)
    CECILIE ORE(1954- ): Calliope
    LUCIANO BERIO(1925- ): Sequenza III per voce femminile
     LASSE THORESEN (1947- ):The Tablet Of Abdul Baha
    SYNNE SKOUEN(1950- ): Rosa     for sopran med klaver og lydbånd  (Inspired by Alma Mahler’s fate)
    HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179)    : From Ordo Virtutum

  • GREEK FOLKSONGS - ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΔΗΜΟΤIΚΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΑ (a cap)
    Κόκκινος πετεινός, Θαλασσακι, Πληγωμένος καπετάνιος, Κλεφτοπουλα, Χορός του Ζαλόγγου,
    Γιάννη μου το μαντήλι σου, Μωρή κοντούλα λεμονιά, Λαφίνα, Ερήνη, Λαλούδι της Μονεμβασιάς

  • SPANISH MUSIC FOR VOICE AND GUITAR
    FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA     (1898-1936): La Tarara, Nana de Sevilla, Zorongo, Los cuatro muleros,
    Las morillas de Jaen
    ROBERTO GERHARD (1896-1970):Un galan y su morena, La lobada, La muerte y la donzella
    MANUEL DE FALLA (1876-1946):Siete canciones populares espanolas (El pano moruna, Seguidilla murciana, Asturiana, Jota,Nana,Cancion, Polo)

  • MIDDELALDERMUSIKK I NY DRAKT
    FRANCESCO LANDINI (1325-1397): Ecco la primavera
    ANON: Miri it is
    from: LIBRE VERMEIL: Laudemus virginem, splendens ceptigera, ad mortem festinamus
    from CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA , nr. 225
    GUILHAUME DE MACHAUT (1300-1377): Quant je suis mis
    ANON: Chevalier
    CHATELAIN DE COUCY (c.1160 - 1203): Li noviaus tens
    MADAME DE FAYEL (?) Chanterai por mon courage
    WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE (c.1170-c.1230): Palestinalied
    NEIDHART VON REUENTAL (c.1180–c.1245):     Mayenzeit

  • A TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN BRITTEN
     9 songs from his FOLKSONG ARRANGEMENTS, A CHARM OF LULLABIES (song cycle), PHAEDRA (dramatic solo cantata)

  • A TRIBUTE TO FRANZ LISZT
    VOICE AND PIANO
    Nimm einen Strahl der Sonne, Im Rhein, im schönen Strome     (Heinrich Heine)    , Die drei Zigeuner (Nicolaus Lenau)
    Freudvoll und Leidvol, Wanderers Nachtlied, Der König von Thule,Mignon’s Lied     (Johann Wolfgang von Geothe)
    CHOIR
    Ave Maria    , Salve Regina, L’Eternel est son nom