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Cover of The Ballad of Mauthausen

The Ballad of Mauthausen

Μίκης Θεοδωράκης

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Tracklist 16 tracks, 55:25
  1. 1Mauthausen: Song of Songs6:59
  2. 2Mauthausen: Andonis2:57
  3. 3Mauthausen: The Fugitive3:42
  4. 4Mauthausen: When War Is Over3:23
  5. 5Mauthausen: Song of Songs (Coda Refrain)1:25
  6. 6Epitaph: Locks of Hair2:06
  7. 7Epitaph : One Day in May2:49
  8. 8Epitaph: You Have Set My Star2:07
  9. 9Epitaph: You Were Standing in Front of the Window1:32
  10. 10Gitano: Ballad of the Accursed2:05
  11. 11Gitano: The Arrest of Antonito El Combrino3:42
  12. 12Gitano: Death of Antonito El Combrino4:36
  13. 13Gitano: Died for Love4:01
  14. 14Gitano: The Gipsy Nun3:14
  15. 15Gitano: Preciosa and the Wind4:48
  16. 16Gitano: Ballad of the Black Sorrow5:59

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The ballad is music based on the poems of Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης (Iakovos Kambanellis), a concentration camp survivor who wrote about the Holocaust, the music itself being composed/conducted by Mikis Theodorakis, the vocals passionately performed by Maria Farantouri. The other six songs, renamed the Farantouri Cycle later in honor of the singer, are leftist, poetic defiance of military tyranny.