Name: Ulysses' Gaze (Karaindrou)
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Ulysses' Gaze (Karaindrou)

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Album: Ulysses' Gaze (Karaindrou)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ulysses' Theme	More Info...	0:01
2)	Litany Variation 1	More Info...	0:03
3)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 1	More Info...	0:01
4)	Woman's Theme	More Info...	0:01
5)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 2	More Info...	0:01
6)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 3	More Info...	0:01
7)	The River	More Info...	0:05
8)	Ulysses' Theme	More Info...	0:02
9)	Ulysses' Theme Litany	More Info...	0:07
10)	Ulysses' Gaze/Woman's Theme/Ulysses Theme/Lento/Largo/Dance	More Info...	0:17
11)	Byzantine Psalm	More Info...	0:01
12)	Ulysses' Theme Variation IV	More Info...	0:01
13)	Ulysses' Theme Variation V	More Info...	0:01
14)	Ulysses' Theme Variation VI	More Info...	0:03
15)	Ulysses' Theme Lento, Largo	More Info...	0:05
16)	Litany Variation II	More Info...	0:03
17)	Ulysses' Theme Variation VII	More Info...	0:01

Album: Ulysses' Gaze (Karaindrou)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ulysses' Theme	More Info...	0:01
2)	Litany Variation 1	More Info...	0:03
3)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 1	More Info...	0:01
4)	Woman's Theme	More Info...	0:01
5)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 2	More Info...	0:01
6)	Ulysses' Theme Variation 3	More Info...	0:01
7)	The River	More Info...	0:05
8)	Ulysses' Theme	More Info...	0:02
9)	Ulysses' Theme Litany	More Info...	0:07
10)	Ulysses' Gaze/Woman's Theme/Ulysses Theme/Lento/Largo/Dance	More Info...	0:17
11)	Byzantine Psalm	More Info...	0:01
12)	Ulysses' Theme Variation IV	More Info...	0:01
13)	Ulysses' Theme Variation V	More Info...	0:01
14)	Ulysses' Theme Variation VI	More Info...	0:03
15)	Ulysses' Theme Lento, Largo	More Info...	0:05
16)	Litany Variation II	More Info...	0:03
17)	Ulysses' Theme Variation VII	More Info...	0:01

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Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Georgia Voulvi (vocals); Lefteris Chalkiadakis (conductor); Kim Kashkashian (viola); Christos Sfetsas (cello); Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe); Andreas Tsekouras (accordion); Socratis Anthis (trumpet); Vangelis Skouras (French horn); String Orchestra.
Recorded at Sound Studio, Athens, Greece in December 1994.
Original score written by Eleni Karaindrou.
Eleni Karaindrou's long, fruitful partnership with Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos has given birth to several scores for his award-winning films. However, perhaps no previous Karaindrou score contains the evocative power of her compositions for Ulysses' Gaze, the film about memory, artistic quests, and war that won the Grand Prix du Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. An extended suite for viola, oboe, accordion, trumpet, horn, cello, voice, and string orchestra, Ulysses' Gaze embodies the themes of longing, nostalgia, loss, memory, and obsession that are the film's subjects. The string orchestra is employed to provide a wavering dark current beneath the bright notes of Kim Kashkashian's viola and the wind players, which bloom above like the icons of memory. The theme associated with "A," the central character who serves as the Ulysses of the film's title, is a constant repetitive framework upon which small vignettes of European folk music and elegiac song are built. The effect mirrors the film's journey across a portion of Europe torn apart by political divides and war, but more importantly provides small fragments of the pure images of peace and beauty that are so essential for Ulysses to find. ~ Stacia Proefrock

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (5/97, p.74) - 4 (out of 5 Stars) - "...ULYSSES' GAZE is [Eleni Karaindrou's] most satisfying and insinuatingly memorable work, with instrumental soloists playing variations on her plaintive, folk-influenced themes over the distant drone of a string orchestra....creates rainy, distinctly Mediterranean atmospheres..."