Dust of Time is a soundtrack album by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...

 featuring music for the film The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time is a film by Theodoros Angelopoulos shown on 12 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and well received by critics....

by Theodoros Angelopoulos recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM New Series label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While her many scores for his films have been celebrated for their subtlety and ingenious sense of time and nuance -- as well as instrumentation, texture, and color -- this one moves across musical cultures as well as across the span of years built into the script. As a piece of music, it walks the line between modern classical music with folk themes and more historical post-Romantic-era composition".

Track listing

All compositions by Eleni Karaindrou

1. "Le Temps Perdu" - 2:07
2. "Dance Theme Var II" - 2:40
3. "Notes I" - 1:19
4. "Seeking Var II" - 2:23
5. "Waltz by the River" - 3:33
6. "Unravelling Time I" - 1:21
7. "Tsiganiko I" - 1:22
8. "Dance Theme Var I" - 3:17
9. "Seeking" - 2:37
10. "Memories from Siberia" - 3:16
11. "Unravelling Time II" - 1:21
12. "Notes II" - 2:33
13. "Tsiganiko II" - 1:22
14. "Seeking Var I" - 3:26
15. "Dance Theme" - 4:30
16. "Le Mal Du Pays" - 1:16
17. "Nostalgia Song" - 1:38
18. "Solitude" - 2:21
19. "Adieu" - 2:18
    • Recorded at Megaron in Athens, Greece in January (tracks 9 & 15) & March (tracks 1-8, 10-14 & 16-19), 2008

Personnel

• Eleni Karaindrou
  Eleni Karaindrou
  Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...
  
   - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Sergiu Nastasa - violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Renato Ripo - cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Maria Bildea - harp
  Harp
  The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
  
  
• Vangelis Christopoulos - oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
  
• Spyros Kazianis - bassoon
  Bassoon
  The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
  
  
• Antonis Lagos - french horn
• Dinos Hadjiiordanou - accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  
• Camerata - Friends of Music Orchestra
• Natalia Michailidou - piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
   (tracks 9 & 15)
• Hellenic Radio Television Orchestra conducted
  Conducting
  Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
  
   by Alexandros Myrat (tracks 9 & 15)