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Antigone: Sophocles (In the Original Greek)
Members of Columbia University
1957
Greek Songs and Dances
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1977
Music for Belly Dancing: Instrumentals from the Near East
Anestos Athounasiou
1975
Belly Dancing for Everyone
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1975
Belly Dance!
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1979
New Songs
Mikis Theodorakis
1974
Peoples' Music: The Struggles of the Greek People
Mikis Theodorakis
1970
Greece: Traditional Music
1974
Greece: Vocal Monodies
1983
Epirotika with Periklis Halkias: Greek Folk Music and Dances from Northern Epirus, Vol. 1
Periklis Halkias
1981
Sophocles: Antigone- Performed by Students of McGill University
Students of McGill University
1959
The Latin Language: Introduction and Reading in Latin (and English) by Professor Moses Hadas of Columbia University
Moses Hadas
1955
Greek-Jewish Musical Traditions
1978
Folk Music of Greece
1955
Folk Dances of Greece
1956
Greek Folk Dances
1968
The Feenjon Goes Greek
The Feenjon Group
1967
Plato on the Death of Socrates: Introduction with Readings from the Apology and the Phaedo in Greek & in English trans.
Moses Hadas
1956
Amalia! Old Greek Songs In The New Land: 1923-1950
Amalia
2002
Epirotika with Periklis Halkias: Greek Folk Music and Dances from Northern Epirus, Vol. 2
Periklis Halkias
1981
Songs and Dances of Greece
1953
The World's Musical Traditions, Vol. 11: Vocal Music in Crete
2000
The Dances of the World's Peoples, Vol. 1: Dances of the Balkans and Near East
1957
Homer- Greek Epic Poetry: Read in Greek by John F.C. Richards
John F.C. Richards
1961
Greek Folk Dances
Elenis and Athanasiou
1989
Ballads of a Greek Cafe
Jimmy Linardos
1968
Love Songs
1972
Anthems of All Nations, Vol. 1 & 2
1956
The Dances of the World's Peoples, Vol. 4: Turkey, Israel, Greece, Armenia, and Caucasia
1958
Greek Fever
George Armaos
1984
Folk Music of the Mediterranean
1952
Piano Music of the Middle East
Amiram Rigai
1978
Modern Greek Heroic Oral Poetry
1959
Now Sounds of the Middle East
George Mgrdichian
1996
Bells & Winter Festivals of Greek Macedonia
2002
Lullabies of the World
1963
Popular Greek Songs
The Trio Attiko
1964
The Dances of the World's Peoples, Vol. 2: European Folk Dances
1958
Ancient Greek Poetry- Tragedy, Comedy, Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poetry: Read in Greek by John F.C. Richards
John F.C. Richards
1961
Chad Gadya: Passover Chant
1982
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex- Performed by Students of Amherst College
John Sommers
1960
Man's Early Musical Instruments
1956
The Social Power of Music
2019
Homer: The Death of Patroclus- Chapter XVI of the Iliad
Robert Paul Sonkowsky
1965
Music of the World's Peoples: Vol. 1
1951
The World's Vocal Arts
1955
2,000 Years of Music Compiled by and Released in Memory of Dr. Curt Sachs
1962
Rakhel: Israeli, Yemenite, Ladino, Arabic and Greek Songs
Rakhel Hadass
1961
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Mountaineer's Song followed by a Mantinades
Ioannis Gerakakis, Vasilios Solonstros
1974
Me t'ah ke me t'alimono (With "Ah's" and "Alas's")
Barba Mitsos (Dimitris Kukas)
1983
Si tu me quierias como yo tu quiero- If you only wanted me as I want you
A. Negrin
1978
Heavy Berates
n/a
1956
In the Cellar of the Taverna
Mikis Theodorakis
1970
Scene V
Students of McGill University
1959
Ode II
Students of McGill University
1959
Chorus, Guard, Creon, Antigone, Ismene- Lines 332-388, 394-405, 441-472, 480-492, 497-505, 508-581
Members of Columbia University
1957
Trata
Periklis Halkias
1981
Hasssapico
G. Mitsakis Ensemble
1968
Tsiganiki Agapi (Gypsy Love)
Anestos Athounasiou
1975
Oso S'agapo (As Much as I Love You)
The Feenjon Group
1967
Kaimos (Grief)
The Feenjon Group
1967
Baklava
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1975
Me Lene Giorgo
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1977
Ti Lozani Ki Lozani
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1979
Wedding Song
Musicians from Siatista, Macedonia
1955
Introduction / Livius Andronicus "Odyssey" / Plautus / Cato the Elder / Cicero "Tusculan Disputations" / Lucretius "On the Nature of Things" / Catullus / Virgil "Eclogue IV" / Horace "Integer Vitae"
Moses Hadas
1955
The Wind Begat the Night
Mikis Theodorakis
1974
Skaros
Kyriakos Kosoulas, Georgios Florios, Yorgos Tikos
1974
Paramana Cuna Cuna
Amalia
2002
Agrilamas ke Psarades
Amalia
2002
San thete na dite klamata (If you wish to see tears)
Barba Mitsos (Dimitris Kukas)
1983
Cante de novia- Song for the bride
H. Sidis
1978
Syrtos Kastellianos
n/a
1956
Ap Ton Kaymo Mou Pino (I Drink to Forget): "Apache" Song (Port of Piraeus)
n/a
1953
Prologue
Students of McGill University
1959
Klisan I Strates Tou Moria (Klephtiko)
Periklis Halkias
1981
Raksat Al Neal
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1975
Akher Ayam El Sayfia
Chris Kalogerson Ensemble
1979
The Phaedo- Introduction, English Translation: "In any way that you like" and Greek
Moses Hadas
1956
Rehearsing Excerpt
Periklis Halkias
1981
Three Rivers
Mikis Theodorakis
1974
Our Sister Athina
Mikis Theodorakis
1974
Sweetly Kissing Madonna
Mikis Theodorakis
1974
Ud Solo
Kariofilis Doitsidis
1974
I Thalassa
Amalia
2002
Sikosu epano Yanno mu (Get up, my Yannos)
Barba Mitsos (Dimitris Kukas)
1983
El Dío Alto- God most high
H. Sidis
1978
The Earth, Kyra Yioryena (Pidiktos)
Musicians and dancers from Peloponnesus
1955
Kalamatianos
n/a
1957
Parodos
Students of McGill University
1959
Exodus
Students of McGill University
1959
Antigone, Ismene- Lines 1-99
Members of Columbia University
1957
Ovid / Seneca "Thyestes" / Tacitus / Apuleius "Golden Ass" / "Vigil of Venus" / St. Jerome "Vulgate" / St. Augustine "Confessions" / Mystery Plays / Hymn "Veni, Sancte Spiritus" / St. Thomas Aquinas "Pangue Lingua" etc.
Moses Hadas
1955
Serra Dance (War Dance)
Men from Pontus (Salonika)
1955
Hasapiko
The Feenjon Group
1967
O Horos Tis Tavernas (Dance of the Taverna)
Anestos Athounasiou
1975
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Songs to Make Winter Bright: Traditions of Singing at Christmas and Other Winter Holidays
2009
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