SEIKILO Ancient World Music | Ancient Lyre — Pluto's Promise by Giorgio Sancristoforo & Theodore Koumartzis @SEIKILO | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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(Pluto) please accept your mystic's divine hymn.
The Earth's keys belong to you, illustrious king,
and they unlock its secret gates, deep and strong.
— Orphic Hymn to Pluto
Pluto's Promise is an original composition for an ancient kithara and a lyre, inspired by the story of Orpheus and his fruitless descendant to the Underworld to save his wife.
The mourning melody is performed here by Giorgio Sancristoforo on his Roman Lyre of Pluto and Theodore Koumartzis on a Lyre of Hermes, both masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family.
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
📽️ Directed by Nikolaos Koumartzis.
The video shooting took place in Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Italy).
🏺 About the Kithara of Pluto
The LUTHIEROS Roman Kithara has 11 strings, a dark majestic color with imposing white roses, and an impressive bright sound. It is a great instrument for professional musicians willing to awe their audience and ideal for studio recordings and live events. It is also a marvelous artifact both in terms of appearance and sound, making it a great choice for collectors.
Due to its 11 strings, it gives more than a full octave, making it an ideal instrument for anyone willing to focus on the ancient musical heritage. What’s more, with the use of harmonics and other advanced playing techniques, the Roman Kithara of Pluto can produce dozens of more notes including sharps!
Its design was inspired by the Music of the Spheres, a concept that emerged in ancient Greece with Pythagoras and Plato and was then explored further by various composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Johan Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The kithara’s tuning pegs are decorated with the symbols of the planets starting from Earth and Moon, and ending up to Neptune and Pluto. The procession of the planets on the pegs resembles the Ptolemaic model of the universe, formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician around 150 CE.
⚪️ Check out the kithara's availability at luthieros.com/product/roman-kithara-of-pluto-11-strings
🏺 About the Orpheus story
When Orpheus lost his wife, Eurydice, he decided to descend to the Underworld to find and bring her back. Playing his lyre, Orpheus charmed Pluto, the God, and Lord of the Underworld, who promised him this. He could take Eurydice under one condition; not to turn back to look at her until they were out of the Underworld.
Only a few feet away from the exit, Orpheus lost his faith and turned to see her, sentencing her to be trapped forever. Orpheus, unable to return to the Underworld, composed a mourning song with his lyre calling for death. He was calling for death to find him so that he could be united with Eurydice once again and once and for all.
🎙️ 🇮🇹 Who is Giorgio?
Giorgio Sancristoforo is an artist and sound designer born in Milan. He is the engineer of numerous education and experimental music software used by both artists and teachers in more than 40 countries worldwide, such as Stanford’s CCRMA, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the Royal College of Music of Stockholm, the TUFTS University, the San Diego City College, the Centro National de las Artes of Mexico City, to name a few. What's more, he is an expert artist of the European Commission.
🌱 Listen to Giorgio's music at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunHspagfjE8uWzSdBDvOLBs6
⚪️ Find out more about Giorgio at giorgiosancristoforo.net/about
🎙️ 🇬🇷 Who is Theodore?
Theodore is the youngest brother of the Koumartzis family. Being part of the family's endeavor since its early stage, he soon came to be an inspiring top-notch lyre player, constantly learning and experimenting with musicians around the world.
He is the founder of the PAUSIS Project, a curator at the SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music in Greece (Thessaloniki), and an integral part of LUTHIEROS Music Instruments.
🌱 Listen to Theodore's music at youtube.com/watch?v=izlnCWJEjes&list=PLcMWkAbRJunFz_TO-e_kw2k3Z18T1TESr
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(Pluto) please accept your mystic's divine hymn.
The Earth's keys belong to you, illustrious king,
and they unlock its secret gates, deep and strong.
— Orphic Hymn to Pluto
Pluto's Promise is an original composition for an ancient kithara and a lyre, inspired by the story of Orpheus and his fruitless descendant to the Underworld to save his wife.
The mourning melody is performed here by Giorgio Sancristoforo on his Roman Lyre of Pluto and Theodore Koumartzis on a Lyre of Hermes, both masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family.
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
📽️ Directed by Nikolaos Koumartzis.
The video shooting took place in Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Italy).
🏺 About the Kithara of Pluto
The LUTHIEROS Roman Kithara has 11 strings, a dark majestic color with imposing white roses, and an impressive bright sound. It is a great instrument for professional musicians willing to awe their audience and ideal for studio recordings and live events. It is also a marvelous artifact both in terms of appearance and sound, making it a great choice for collectors.
Due to its 11 strings, it gives more than a full octave, making it an ideal instrument for anyone willing to focus on the ancient musical heritage. What’s more, with the use of harmonics and other advanced playing techniques, the Roman Kithara of Pluto can produce dozens of more notes including sharps!
Its design was inspired by the Music of the Spheres, a concept that emerged in ancient Greece with Pythagoras and Plato and was then explored further by various composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Johan Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The kithara’s tuning pegs are decorated with the symbols of the planets starting from Earth and Moon, and ending up to Neptune and Pluto. The procession of the planets on the pegs resembles the Ptolemaic model of the universe, formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician around 150 CE.
⚪️ Check out the kithara's availability at luthieros.com/product/roman-kithara-of-pluto-11-strings
🏺 About the Orpheus story
When Orpheus lost his wife, Eurydice, he decided to descend to the Underworld to find and bring her back. Playing his lyre, Orpheus charmed Pluto, the God, and Lord of the Underworld, who promised him this. He could take Eurydice under one condition; not to turn back to look at her until they were out of the Underworld.
Only a few feet away from the exit, Orpheus lost his faith and turned to see her, sentencing her to be trapped forever. Orpheus, unable to return to the Underworld, composed a mourning song with his lyre calling for death. He was calling for death to find him so that he could be united with Eurydice once again and once and for all.
🎙️ 🇮🇹 Who is Giorgio?
Giorgio Sancristoforo is an artist and sound designer born in Milan. He is the engineer of numerous education and experimental music software used by both artists and teachers in more than 40 countries worldwide, such as Stanford’s CCRMA, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the Royal College of Music of Stockholm, the TUFTS University, the San Diego City College, the Centro National de las Artes of Mexico City, to name a few. What's more, he is an expert artist of the European Commission.
🌱 Listen to Giorgio's music at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunHspagfjE8uWzSdBDvOLBs6
⚪️ Find out more about Giorgio at giorgiosancristoforo.net/about
🎙️ 🇬🇷 Who is Theodore?
Theodore is the youngest brother of the Koumartzis family. Being part of the family's endeavor since its early stage, he soon came to be an inspiring top-notch lyre player, constantly learning and experimenting with musicians around the world.
He is the founder of the PAUSIS Project, a curator at the SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music in Greece (Thessaloniki), and an integral part of LUTHIEROS Music Instruments.
🌱 Listen to Theodore's music at youtube.com/watch?v=izlnCWJEjes&list=PLcMWkAbRJunFz_TO-e_kw2k3Z18T1TESr
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