1		Part 1		3:59
		2		Part 2		1:56
		3		Part 3		4:20
		4		Part 4		2:26
*		5		Part 5		3:06
		6		Part 6		2:05
		7		Part 7		1:30
**		8		Part 8		1:56
		9		Part 9		1:00
		10		Part 10		1:51
***		11		Part 11		2:50
		12		Part 12		4:56
		13		Part 13		2:36
		14		Part14		1:06
		15		Part 15		2:40
		16		Part 16		2:46
		17		Part 17		2:28
		18		Part 18		3:16
				Total playing time		46:43

All music composed, arranged, produced and performed by Vangelis.
* Traditional Folk Song of Chania, Crete, arranged and produced by Vangelis. Featuring the Choir of the Historical, Cultural and Folklore Association of Chania, Crete. Kritikes Maderes.
** Composed and Performed by Psarantonis, arranged and produced by Vangelis.
*** Written and Perfomed by Loudovicos Ton Anogion, arranged and produced by Vangelis.

Voices: The Choir of the Greek Radio and Television
Choir music score transcription & choir master: Irina Valentinova

Assistant sound production and mixing: Frederick Rousseau
Sound engineer: Frederick Rousseau
Assistant sound engineer: Vangelis Saitis

Choir [Voices] – The Choir Of The Greek Radio And Television.
Copyist [Choir Music Score Transcription], Chorus Master [Choir Master] – Irina Valentinova

Cover design & Vangelis photography by Stathis Zalidis

El Greco is an Iannis Smaragdis film.

Note: This album is completely different to the first El Greco release from 1995 (Foros Timis Ston Greko) as well as the release in1998: El Greco.

The background information of the Greek songs below this part are provided by Themistoklis Pantelopoulos and translated by Dionysis Boukouvalas.
Footnotes & square brackets by the translator].

The original recording of the “rizitika” song [used in track 5 of the El Greco soundtrack] can be found in this YouTube video.
It’s called “Siga siga ’vrehen o Thios”¹. It’s a 2003 recording. Vangelis took it as is and added the soundscape. Unfortunately it’s not on Spotify, as is the case for all the editions [i.e. recordings] of the song, 17 in total, from 1973 to 2008.

[This is a] traditional song of Western Crete, also referred to as "rizitiko"². The term “rizitika” is, in a way, a neologism³. In older times these were simply called “Cretan songs”, and belonged to the family of non-rhyming and usually 11-syllable “table songs”. There is great controversy among scholars on the subject of “rizitika” songs in Crete, mostly concerning their origins and their spread beyond western Crete⁵.

The [instrumental] “Anogeianos pydihtos” of Psarantonis is a recording made especially for the film soundtrack [track 8]. Another Psarantonis recording of the “Anogeia jumping dance” can be found here in Spotify, from a 1996 album [of his]: ⁶

The Loudovikos Ton Anogeion song is also recorded especially for the soundtrack [track 11]. In this too, as in the Psarantonis song, Vangelis added a soundscape. Loudovikos had recorded it in a somewhat more complete form in 1995 for his album titled “Charmatoussa”⁷, as heard here in Spotify.

Footnotes:
¹ I.e. “Little by little, God rained down”. Sometimes the title is lengthened with the addition of “kai sigana hionizei”, i.e. “and He slowly snows”.
² Singular, or "rizitika", plural. The plural is customarily used either way in English.
³ “Riza” means “root”, so “rizitika” = “song(s) of the root(s)”.
⁵ The original Greek text can be found here.
⁵ I.e. “Anogeia jumping dance”. Anogeia is a municipality in the Rethymno regional unit of Crete.
⁶ Titled “Apo kardias”, i.e. “from the heart”. Youtube link of the same version.
⁷ A region of the Psiloritis mountain. Spotify title is “Ta dakria”, i.e. “The tears”. Album title is “Ta dakria einai dio logion”, i.e. “There are two kinds of tears”. Youtube link of the same version. A page with the original greek lyrics of the song.


English translation and editing of the lyrics of parts 5 and 11 by Dionysis Boukouvalas.
[In the translation there is no word-to-word reference, because syntax is not the same in Greek and English language. The translator chose to retain meaning rather than word correlation].

Part 5: (Σιγά σιγά ΄βρεχεν ο Θιός - εχιόνιζε)

English translation

Website made by: Henk Engelen

For information / contact: mail me