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Theodorakis: Zorbas Ballet; Adagio for Solo Flute; 3 Pieces from Carnaval.(Sound Recording Review)
Theodorakis: Zorbas Ballet; Adagio for Solo Flute; 3 Pieces from Carnaval. Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra. Decca 475 6130.
Almost everyone of a certain age is familiar with the music from the 1964 movie Zorba the Greek, starring Anthony Quinn. What people may not be as familiar with is that the music's composer, Mikis Theodorakis, has spent the last fifty years writing symphonic music and popular songs or that he has become practically the national composer of Greece or that he put together a wonderful ballet suite from the Zorba soundtrack. This Decca recording corrects some of those lapses.
The centerpiece of the album is an extended excerpt from Zorbas Suite, spelled curiously without an apostrophe. Charles Dutoit, one of the most suave and sophisticated conductors in the world today, treats Theodorakis's music in the same way he would treat the music of Ravel or Debussy, and imparts to it a grace and refinement that is missing in the more boisterous rendition heard in the movie itself. If there is any drawback to the disc, it's that Decca or Dutoit or whomever have chosen to give us only selected scenes from the second half of ...
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