i was in mauthausen 1995 when Mikis Theodorakis performed the Mauthausen Trilogy. i cried so hard and loud. i'll never forget that experience.

Theodorakis was a genious. I love his music,

All the cruel tyrants should be forced to listen to this song until they understand the real meaning of humanity. 😢

If a child asked me to explain what the holocaust was, i would play this for it to hear. Devastating lyrics and music. And an epic performance by Farantouri.

So hauntingly beautiful and moving. R.I.P. Maestro.

I moved to Paros more than a year ago planning to stay three months and have made it my home. I am in love with the light, the rocks, the crazy winds, the passion, all of which I feel deeply in your music and in Fantantouri's voice. I will learn this song in Greek, though I don't know if I could ever sing it without weeping. Ευχαριστο.

Today the great music composer Mikis Theodorakis who compose this song die at age 96, a great composer a great person, from the resistance to Nazi to the resistance to military junta, never compromise his fight for freedom and democracy

Maria 1974 what a stunning talent.Sensitivty,dynamic.

The first time I heard this song...well, it only needed two lines to make my tears come out. Such a beautiful lament!

I had a wave of emotion when I found this song. I haven't heard any of this music since I was about ten, living in Greece. America took away my soul.

Οταν ακους τετοιο ασμα,δυστυχως με παρα πολυ μεγαλη δυσκολια θα συγκρατησεις τα δακρυα στο προσωπο σου,ευγε στη μοναδικη Μαρια φαραντουρη ❤️

Η μοναδικότητα του έρωτα για μια κοπέλα που δεν προκαλεί το γενικό θαυμασμό ("κανείς δεν ήξερε πως είναι τόσο ωραία"), η θηριωδία του ναζισμού ("με κίτρινο άστρο στην καρδιά"), ο σπαραγμός της αγωνίας ("μην είδατε την αγάπη μου") και το θλιβερό τέλος ("δεν είχε πια το φόρεμά της") σε τόσο τέλειους στίχους...

fyi. Asma Asmaton means "song of the songs". IIRC, this refers to a real person, a Lithuanian Jewish girl, with whom Iakovos fell in love with; and you can imagine what happened next, in the concentration camp. Having said that, I can't see how someone will not be moved by reading again the lyrics of the song, with this in mind. RIP Iakovos, these words curry a deep message.

steeds opnieuw ,na al die jaren, krijg ik rillingen bij deze muziek, tijdloos prachtig, bedankt voor het plaatsen

Superbe chanson grecque.Superbe Farantouri avec Mikis Theodorakis.

Τό πιό δυνατό έργο που έχει γραφτεί στήν Παγκόσμια Δισκογραφία.

This is the saddest song I ever heard. What a voice, what a music! It is even more gripping when you don't understand the lyrics, they only distract. Only 2 words need to be understood: Auschwitz and Dachau. I hope this never ever repeats itself again. Life is hard enough already.

The writer of the lyrics, Iakovos Kampanellis, was actually imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp and fell in love to a Jewish girl (whom he eventually lost after their liberation). It's like a love/life triumph in a place where facing death was an everyday routine.

I lived in Amsterdam when this concert took place. I planned to go but could not. Great music.

On May 5, just before noon, a mighty American tank, smoked and marked by war, knocked down Mauthausen Gate and entered the precinct. And this God-sent chariot of freedom was, he says, one of the countless and invincible of the eleventh brigade of chariots of the Third American Army commanded by a great general named George Patton! ... What nice words, what heavenly news ... they looked puzzled, proud, sad ... Well they did and stayed up there, on the back of the tank. They escaped so many battles. We would not escape our joy. We screamed, tore our clothes, shook like stayers. We are crammed, trampled, to get close to the tank. Many fell on top and kissed the smoked irons and others banged their heads and cried.

It´s a shame that we face again the thread of the fasism and nazis. Unfortunately, we forget so easily. At least, the existence of these songs are there to remind us some history.

Descansa en paz. Gracias. Desde México.

Powerful words, Sublime Maria. The song takes you by the throat. May the horrible events never ever happen again.

Una pagina musicale di profondo dolore e di infinita commozione. Una voce che scuote le ossa! Grandissima, Maria Farantouri.

I think her voice now is better suited for this song some 30 years after this performance. I seen her sing this same song in 2014 and her voice is older and wiser and just as powerful. I don't even speak Greek but beautiful music needs no language. I did not know it was about Concentration camp but I felt it was a sad song.

הביצוע הוא כל כך חזק במובן של פנימי , מדבר, מרגש.

καθε φορα που το ακουω κλαιω

Χριστέ μου πόσο συγκινητικό κομμάτι... Ήμουν 18 όταν το πρωτοάκουσα, έγινα 37 και ακόμα κλαίω κάθε φορά που το ακούω.

A beautiful comment that I absolutely relate to. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this amazing music that I was fortunate to grow up with. Bless you

Beautiful. And the horror of the story is masterly conveyed by the very simplicity of the words in which it is told.

Her voice is brilliant!

υπέροχη όποτε το ακούω τρέχουν τα μάτια μου

Asma Asmaton = The Song of Songs

Ένα ανατριχιαστικό τραγούδι με μεγάλη σημασία που μας ξυπνα αναμνήσεις από μια άλλη εποχή σκληρή και ταυτόχρονα ανθρωπινη.

ASMA ASMATON (hymn of the hymns) How beautiful she is, my love *(ti orea pu in' i agapi mu)* in her everyday dress *(me to kathimerno tis forema)* and the little comb on her hair *(ki ena htenaki sta malia)* Nobody ever knew that she is so beautiful *(kanis den ixere pos ine toso 'rea)* Young Girls of Mauthausen *(kopeles tu Mauthausen)* Young Girls of Delsen *(kopeles tu Delsen)* have you seen by chance my love? *(tin idate tin agapi mu)* We saw her leaving on a long voyage *(tin idame se makrino taxidi)* she was no longer wearing her dress *(den ihe pia to forema tis)* nor a little comb on her hair *(ute htenaki sta malia)* How beautiful she is, my love *(ti orea pu in' i agapi mu)* the one pampered by her mother *(i haidemeni apo ti mana tis)* and her brother's kisses *(ke t' aderfu tis ta filia)* Nobody ever knew that she is so beautiful *(kanis den ixere pos ine toso 'rea)* Young Girls of Auswitz *(kopeles tu Auswitz)* Dachau's Young Girls *(tu Dachau kopeles)* have you seen by chance my love? *(ti idate tin agapi mu)* We saw her in the frigid town square *(tin idame stin pageri platia)* with a number stamped on her white hand *(arithmos sto aspro tis to heri)* with a yellow star pinned by her heart *(kitrino astro stin kardia)* How beautiful she is, my love *(ti orea pu in' i agapi mu)* the one pampered by her mother *(i haidemeni apo tin mana tis)* and her brother's kisses *(ke t' aderfu tis ta filia)* Nobody ever knew that she is so beautiful *(kanis den ixere pos ine toso 'rea)*

Maria Thanks ❤ Beuatiful ...

Μαρία, μας λείπει η φωνή σου, βαθιά σαν τον πολιτισμό μας, δωρική σα μανιάτικο μοιρολόι, λυρική σαν ακτίνα φωτός ελληνικού.

SONGS FROM GREECE AND FOR ALL

Γνωστότατο σε μένα τραγούδι με τη διαφορά ότι όταν το άκουγα μικρή δεν καταλάβαινα. Τώρα που καταλαβαίνω, πονάει πολύ..

this is a beautiful song, quite apart from Maria's incredible voice, and what a tragic story told so simply.

Dank je Pieter dat je dit geplaatst hebt ! Zo mooi en triest tegelijk ; om te huilen ! Groeten van een Nederlandse in Frankrijk wonend !

Que esta extraordinária canção simbolize também o imenso sofrimento de todas as jovens não judias que o nazismo destroçou.

Hier word ik erg stil van, maar ook verdrietig, van een ongekende schoonheid dit lied...wat een pijn...

You're welcome. Personally I think the simplicity of the words which have been accurately translated makes the horror of the story of which they tell more strongly felt.

ENJOY the great music,of a great composer,and a great man!!!LEAVE the politics out of this!

Que música é essa??? E essa cantora!!! Incríveis!!! Sons de outro mundo!!

A beautiful voice.

Speechless !!!

You are the best Najbolja si

Tränen kommen auf die auge wen ich höre diese lied

I also love the lyric and think simplicity make it stronger. Cause really when love is lost, when love is kill by the injustice and the cruelty what can you say. Hear, the man lost his life, lost everythong, theres not space of intellectual words, cause love uis love anda lost is lost. When the feelings are to deep you cannot waste your time on vannal words. Remember that the is really written by a man in mauthausen and remember his lover.

superbe voix pour une non moins superbe chanson

Συγκίνηση ατελείωτη στο άκουσμα αυτού του σπουδαίου, του μεγάλου, του μοναδικού ύμνου από μια Ιέρεια του τραγουδιού!!!

Oorlog, vrede, dood, angst, hoop zijn een eerbetoon aan alle mensen die hebben geleden en nog lijden . Deze muziek blijft in je oren hangen. Deze muziek maakt je droevig . Deze muziek is een eerbetoon aan alle mensen die hebben geleden in de vele oorlogen. Die mensen onmenselijk hebben gemaakt. Dit is muziek dat in de vezel van je ziel blijft hangen....

Grosse Stimme voller Emotionen..

Wonderfull !!!

Ambos inolvidables!!!!

Super song sterk gezongen bravo

bellissima grazie Mediterraneo

τι φωνή !

it sounds sublime!

Magnifique comme le peuple grec

It is also probably worth pointing out that Theodorakis is referencing the sections of the Old Testament 'Song of Solomon' aka 'Song of Songs' (Asma Asmaton) where the female protagonist is searching for her beloved and recasting it as the anguished search by a mother for her daughter lost in the Nazi concentration camps. Notice how the orchestration mimics the rhythmic sound of cattle truck wheels on train tracks.

,How this lyrics born from Iakovos Kambanellis , At that time, every Sunday when we were not working, we stood for hours and watched the women who also came out of the tents and looked at us. The distance that separated us was great. It is a question of whether we could communicate and whether we were still shouting. Of course, no one dared to try such a thing. He didn't even need to. This silent stare through two barbed wire fences needed no words. It was the time of love in Mauthausen. But think ... These women and these men who looked at each other silently for endless hours were dressed in the same striped, faded, well-worn clothes of the deceiver. Their bodies were skin and bone, their cheeks sucked and hairy from the vitamin deficiency. The hair is cut with a strip shaved in the middle, from the cuticle to the neck. Only the eyes were bigger and deeper than before to fit the fear. The power line with the high voltage current and the barbed wire with the watchtowers was not a simple technical installation, an impenetrable fence. Here an order was to finally separate the male from the female. An order the size of a degree. A split of the eternal couple. A paraphrase cut from the heavens and the earth to be "in one flesh

Και οι πιό παρατηρητικοί θα πρόσεξαν οτι στην ορχήστρα παίζουν δύο μέλη των SOCRATES, Γιάννης σπάθας (κιθάρα), Αντώνης τουρκογιώργης (μπάσσο).

Als je hiermee, op een druilerige avond, geen emotie ondervind, begrijp ik er niets van.... man, man, man, wàt een stem, wàt een emotie !!!

@rangvi la chanson m'a fait pleurer moi aussi, merci de partager votre émotion avec nous

when i met him, there was silence inside of me and around.

I have removed all comments that were not about this music. I feel there are enough fora to ventilate opinions for or against these topics. Myself I think that any attitude that is fueled by "if you are not for us, you are against us" will forever perpetuate strife instead of solving it. If you feel offended or censored by this action I appologize but I do not wish my uploads in the music section to become a political or religious arena.

How beautiful my love is The caress of her mother And the kisses of her brother No-one knew how beautiful she is mia mikri metafrasi gia na katalabainoun oloi to aristourgima tou kampanelli-miki

Maria ist eine sehr große Sängerin )*!

ΑΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ!!!!!

Και η μεταφραση στα φλαμανδικα πολυ καλη,δειχνει ενα σεβασμο

Αυτή δεν είναι φωνή, είναι ολόκληρη χορωδία. Βυζαντινή. Συνδεμένη με την υπέροχη μουσική του Θεοδωράκη και την συγκινητική ποίηση του Ιάκωβου Καμπανέλλη είναι άσμα ασμάτων.

Wonderful. (from HU)

"Wir weinten vor Freude, als wir den roten Schein am Himmel sahen. Dresden brennt, die Alliierten sind nicht mehr weit!" Ein Überlebender des Ghettos Theresienstadt.

Φωνάρα και τέλειο τραγούδι ερμηνεία που δεν μπωρεί κανείς να το πει ωπος το λέει η Φαραντούρη

i love maria...will visit your house./

I love these oldsongs by Mikis They bring back so many memories from my young days. I had all the records but nobody can play therm now. Has this song been released on cd+

🆘🆘🆘🆘 χωρίς λόγια.💣💣💣

@mehr1350 it made me cry too, thank you for sharing your emotion

Here is the first part of a more complete translation made for me by Pericles Kondos: How beautiful is my beloved in her everyday dress and a small comb in her hair Nobody knew she was so beautiful. Girls of Auschwitz girls of Dachau have you seen my beloved? We saw her in a long trip she didn't have her dress any more or a comb in her hair. How beautiful is my beloved caressed by her mother and her brother's kisses Nobody knew she was so beautiful.

never forget! never forgive! NEVER AGAIN!

Θαυμάσιο

I am Dutch and the song is with Dutch subtitles !!!

Just listen to the great sonn and not worry about 'die große sängerin'

Hartverscheurend mooi

Thanks! Me too!

Ooops! I didn't realise that a full English translation had already been posted. Apologies to all.

@thermokipiatsi The song impressed me and your translation made me cry, the last part especially. Will all pain of human race end one day? Thank you.

υπεροχο

לעולם לא עוד

È tutto così attuale anche oggi 2022......

Theodorakis y Fantouri cantando Pablo Neruda , de actualité ❤

La letra en español Que linda es mi amor! con su vestido diario Y un clip en su pelo. Nadie sabía que era tan linda. Chicas de Auschwitz, Chicas de Dahaou, ¿habéis visto mi amor? La vimos en un largo viaje, ella ya no tenía su vestido ni clip en su pelo. ¡Que linda es mi amor! mimada por su madre y los besos de su hermano Nadie sabía que era tan linda. Chicas de Mauthausen, Chicas de Belsen, ¿habéis visto mi amor? La vimos en el patio helado. con un número en su brazo pálido, y una estrella amarilla sobre su corazón. ¡Que linda es mi amor! mimada por su madre y los besos de su hermano Nadie sabía que era tan linda.

ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΔΕΝ ΊΞΕΡΕ ΠΩΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟΣΟ ΩΡΑΙΑ....

genial

yperoxo tragoydi...

How beautiful my love is In her everyday dress And a little comb in her hair No-one knew how beautiful she is Young girls of Auschwitz Young girls of Dachau Have you seen my love? We saw her on a long journey She no longer had her dress Nor the little comb in her hair

To all who died