D.Mitropoulos: "Gray" (C.P.Cavafy) sung by Angelica Cathariou

Dimitri Mitropoulos: "Gray" (from the song cycle "14 Invenzioni" on C.P.Cavafy's poems). Excerpt from the CD "Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Progressive Composer" which includes the world premiere recording of the integral Cavafy song cycle and of vocal works "Pan" and "To Uranian Afrodite" on poems by A.Sikelianos. The first public performance of the above vocal works took place at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall in 2010 with mezzo soprano Angelica Cathariou and pianist Th.Tzovanakis Constantine P.Cavafy: "Gray" While looking at a half-gray opal I remembered two lovely gray eyes— it must be twenty years ago I saw them... We were lovers for a month. Then he went away to work, I think in Smyrna, and we never met again. Those gray eyes will have lost their beauty—if he's still alive; that lovely face will have spoiled. Memory, keep them the way they were. And, memory, whatever of that love you can bring back, whatever you can, bring back tonight. Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard (C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems.Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)