Music inspired by Greek Mythology

[Cato]

One of the greatest discoveries of the last 20 years for me:


Nikolai Tcherepnin's Narcissus and Echo:

[foxandpeng]

George Lloyd - Symphony 7, 'Proserpine'.

What a great work! Not programmatic, per se, but one can see the flow of the original story in his outstanding and beautiful music.

[Ganondorf]

Quite a few operas by Richard Strauss, especially recommending Elektra and Die Liebe der Danae. Ariadne I've never really warmed to much even though I went so far as to see it in Finnish National Opera some years back.

[Cato]

Icarus by Lera Auerbach!

Auerbach's Symphony #1 is subtitled Chimera !

[pjme]

Listening to this cantata for the first time.
Quite an achievement -of course- for a very young man! The libretto is weak, not to say silly, but this is late 19th century pomp & circumstance. I think Andromède can  do with more flamboyance, even if the performance is fine and the singers are all -at least- good.

From a letter by Lekeu:
"But what filled me with more joy than anything else, beside d'Indy's  praise, was Ysaye's conduct toward me. At the end of the concert he  mounted the platform and took me, figuratively speaking, into his  arms by saying aloud that my Andromede was the work of an artist  and of a great musician and that he had never before listened to a work  by so young a man wise and impassioned at the same time. . . An hour  later I was at the Conservatory. . . Ysaye when introducing me to  his pupils began by bombarding me with compliments, for instance:  "Here is a pupil of Father Franck; alone of composers of to-day, he
composes music which is not an imitation of Wagner — whom he knows  by heart." "