Dimitri MITROPOULOS: "KASSIANI" - Angelica CATHARIOU, mezzo soprano

Dimitri MITROPOULOS : "KASSIANI" (orchestration : Nikos SKALKOTTAS) on a poem by Kostis PALAMAS based on the byzantine Troparion of Kassiani (Hymn of Kassiani).
performed by Angelica CATHARIOU

National Symphony Orchestra of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation
conductor: Anastasios SYMEONIDIS
MEGARON Athens Concert Hall
April 2017

Troparion of Kassiani:
“O Lord, the woman who had fallen into many sins,
sensing Your Divinity,
takes upon herself the duty of a myrrh-bearer.
With lamentations she brings you myrrh in anticipation of your entombment.
"Woe to me!" she cries, "for me night has become a frenzy of licentiousness,
a dark and moonless love of sin.
Receive the fountain of my tears,
O You who gather into clouds the waters of the sea.
Incline unto me, unto the sighings of my heart,
O You who bowed the heavens by your ineffable condescension.
I will wash your immaculate feet with kisses and dry them again with the tresses of my hair; those very feet at whose sound Eve hid herself in fear when she heard You walking in Paradise in the twilight of the day.
As for the multitude of my sins and the depths of Your judgments, who can search them out, O Savior of souls, my Savior?
Do not disdain me Your handmaiden,
O You who are boundless in mercy."

Δημήτρης ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ: "ΚΑΣΣΙΑΝΗ" (Κ.ΠΑΛΑΜΑΣ)
ενορχήστρωση: Νίκος ΣΚΑΛΚΩΤΑΣ
μεσόφωνος: Αγγελική ΚΑΘΑΡΙΟΥ
Εθνική Συμφωνική Ορχήστρα της Ε.Ρ.Τ
μουσ. δ/νση: Αναστάσιος ΣΥΜΕΩΝΙΔΗΣ
Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών
Απρίλιος 2017