Sappho's Nightingale — Ancient Lyre — Lina Palera, Gloria Endres de Oliveira & Evagoras Bekiaris

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The Tenth Muse, Sappho, wrote over 10,000 lines of poetry, most of which are lost. Most of them are lost, and almost all are just fragments.
Odysseas Elytis, one of the two most celebrated poets of modern Greece and one of the only two Greek recipients of a Nobel Prize, formed a "compound" poem with the shortest of these fragments.
Written between the late 7th and the early 6th century BCE, in this poem, Sappho signs for the spring's messenger, the sweet-voiced nightingale. This is its opening verse, also: Ἦρος ἄγγελος ἰμερόφωνος ἀήδων.
In this video, Lina Palera performs on a LUTHIEROS Lyre of Olympus, masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. She joins forces in the vocals with Gloria Endres de Oliveira to sing an English translation of the poem together.

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Μusic composition: Lina Palera
Ancient lyre: Lina Palera
Vocals: Gloria Endres de Oliveira
Music production: Evagoras Bekiaris

Directed by Nikolaos Koumartzis

🇬🇧 🎶 Lyrics in English

Nightingale in my garden,
Messenger sweet of springtide
Aphrodite’s golden handmaiden
And the full globed moon was rising, and there,
sometimes, stood the Cretan women, tender footed,
dancing in measure round the fair altar,
crushing the fine bloom of the grass.

Soothsayer of spring, voluptuous voiced nightingale
Aphrodite’s golden handmaiden
the full moon was rising high
and on the mountain the place of retreats
as in other times of Crete the girls
they dragged the dance around the beautiful altar
and with rhythm their lithe legs
knocking they stepped on the tender grasses
little flowers.


🏛️ 🎶 Original Lyrics in Ancient Greek

ἦρος †ἄγγελος ἰμερόφωνος ἀήδων†
χρυσοφάην θεράπαιναν Ἀφροδίτας
*πλήρης μὲν ἐφαίνετ᾽ ἀ σελάννα
αἰ δ᾽ ὠς περὶ βῶμον ἐστάθησαν.
*Κρῆσσαί νύ ποτ’ ὦδ’ ἐμμελέως πόδεσσιν
ὠρχῶντ’ ἀπάλοισ’ ἀμφ’ ἐρόεντα βῶμον
πόας τέρεν ἄνθος μάλακον μάτεισαι.


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