N. Ioannidis  is a composer, musicologist, multi-instrumentalist performer, media theorist, and digital media creative producer (BA Music & Media Studies, MA Digital Media Studies, PhD  Musicology) who is researching ancient Greek music and its relationship with all musical cultures, that have been subject to classical Greek cultural influence. 

Arrangements: vocals, ancient Greek instruments (ancient kithara, aulos, ethnic percussion), keyboard, violin.

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Tracks

 1. Ie paean 
Original music Ioannidis Nikolaos 2003 - Language: Greek 
 2. Orphic Hymn to Nature 
Original music Ioannidis Nikolaos 2003 - Language: Greek- mp3 (sample)
 3. Hymn to Nemesis 
Extant ancient Greek - Mesomedes (1st c. AD) - Language: Greek- mp3 (sample)
 4. Invocation of Calliope and Apollo 
Extant ancient Greek - Mesomedes (1st c. AD) - Language: Greek mp3 (sample)
 5. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo 
Extant ancient Greek - Athenaeus (127 BC) - Language: Greek mp3 (sample)
 6. Hymn to the Holy Trinity
Extant early Christian hymn (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1786) -Anonymous c. 2nd-3rd c. A.D - Language: Greek mp3 (sample)
 7. Doxastikon 
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek 
 8. Crown of thorns 
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek -  mp3 (sample)
 9. Nos autem gloriari 
Gregorian chant -Language:  Latin - mp3 (sample)
10. All generations 
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek mp3 (sample)
11. Surah Fatiha (The opening) 
Quranic chant - Language: Arabic -  mp3 (sample)
12. Kyrie eleison 
Gregorian chant -Language: Greek 
13. Gloria in excelsis deo 
Gregorian chant - Language: Latin  mp3 (sample)
14. Kyrie eleison 
Byzantine chant - Language: Greek 
15. Oh Pure Virgin! 
Byzantine chant -Language: Greek  - lyrics and mp3
16. Alleluia 
Gregorian chant 
17. To our defender general 
Byzantine chant 6th cent. A.D - Language: Greek mp3 (sample)
18. Surah Baqarah 
Quranic chant - Language: Arabic mp3 (sample)
19. Ever (or The atheist's hymn) mp3 (sample)
Original music and lyrics- Ioannidis Nikolaos 1997- Language: English 

The Music of Ancient Greeks - Early Epic and Lyrical Poetry Ancient Greek epic and lyrical poems of the 8th-5th century B.C. set to music by IOANNIDIS

OEDIPUS REX English opera

ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS

Related BBC Radio 4 broadcast:

SOUNDING THE DIVINE In this program, IOANNIDIS is interviewed by James O'Donnell (Organist at Westminster Abbey) about the religious music of Ancient Greece. The interview was recorded in 2003 in Greece, in the archeological site of the ancient city of Dion - in the shadow of Mount Olympus, by BBC producer Mark O'Brien. 

LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS

Musical Works, ESSAYS on music and media, LYRICS (1) LYRICS (2),  ANCIENT  GREEK TEXTS  translated into  English  by N. Ioannidis,  ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENTS reconstructed by N. Ioannidis and used in the ancient Greek recordings