Τη Υπερμάχω / Te Ypermaho
Κοντάκιο του Ακαθίστου Ύμνου / Contakion of the Akathist Hymn
Short version

Scores

Analytic version of Te ypermacho as I. Nafpliotis would chant it [jpg]
Written by his student and Domestikos, Angelos Boudouris.

Boudouris explicitly writes that a slow tempo is to be used for this particular version he wrote down. He also specifies that the chronos to be used is double (diplous) as opposed to other pieces which he indicates they should be chanted in chronos simple (haplous).

Interpretations

Patriarchal

Iakovos Nafpliotis

Notice the subtle but noticable interpretation of some petastai signs in the text. Also notice that he doesn't follow exactly the analyseis recorded in Boudouris' score. Finally notice that the co-chanter (Pringos) does small variations of analyseis here and there without that destroying the coherence of the chant. The piece can be chanted at various tempos (fast, slow) depending on the occasion/time in the service.

The same recording (different sound quality)
(a) [mp3] (b)
[mp3] (c) [mp3] (from cmkon.org)

[rm] (from ec-patr.net)

Basileios Nikolaidis / Basileios Emmanouilidis
[rm]
(1980s, Patriarchate, from cmkon.org)

Notice how they don't do the oxeia (jump) in the beginning. The whole interpretation is much simpler and dryer, compared to Nafpliotis above.

Leonidas Asteris / Basileios Emmanouilidis
[rm]
(1990s, live from the Patriarchate, from cmkon.org)

Same comments as in Nikolaidis/Emmanouilidis' recording.

Thessaloniki style

Eleftherios Georgiadis' choir
[mp3, 415 Kb]
(from lyk-mous-thess.thess.sch.gr )


Conservatorium style

Spyridon Peristeris
[mp3, 520 Kb] (from ieropsaltis.com)


Other recordings

Athanassios Paivanas' choir (Ergasteri Psaltikis)
[rm]
(from ieropsaltis.com)

Manolis Hatzimarkos
[ram, 427 Kb]
(from ieropsaltis.com)


G.K. Michalakis
[mp3, 330 Kb]
[mp3, 340 Kb]

Gregorios Daravanoglou
[mp3, 1.6 Mb]

Unknown choir
[mp3, 1.4 Mb]

Simon Karas' style

Simon Karas' choir (Choir of the Association for the Dissemination of National Music)
[mp3]

See comment referring to the Greek Byzantine Choir below. Notice the double petaste in "Ina kra-". A trademark of Karas' style.
( 1980s, Athens, bad sound quality, from www.melopoieia.com)

Lykourgos Angelopoulos' choir (Greek Byzantine Choir)
[mp3, 700 Kb]

Notice the overdone elxeis and the repetitiveness of interpretation. The mechanical interpretation of analyseis which, however, are in concept the closest to what Boudouris wrote down (see score above). Finally notice the identical performance style with that of Angelopoulos' teacher choir, that of Simon Karas above. Compare the subtle interpretation of petastai by Nafpliotis above with the over-simplified, rigid interpretation here. The same or identical recordings can be found here [html] (clubs.pathfinder.gr) and here [html] (apostoliki-diakonia.gr)

"Moisey Petrovich" choir (Serbian and Greek)
[rm]

Notice the identical performance style compared to the previous choirs. Not so extreme elxeis though.
(from http://home.drenik.net/npopm/downloadgre.html)
(link by M. Lagoudakis)

Ioannis Arvanitis/Yorgos Bilalis
[wma, 1.2 Mb]

Capella Romana
(director Alexander Lingas)
[wma, 3.6 Mb]

Speculative reconstruction from the 13th c. ms performed by mostly Western-trained musicians.

Intrument approximations

D. Politis
[
ra]
With electronic instrument argued to reproduce the Byzantine music intervals exactly
(1990s, Thessaloniki) (from csd.auth.gr)

Other cultures

Elie Khoury (Arabic)
[mp3, 461k] (from psaltopedia)
The intervals of this performance sound to me quite westernised. The melody is close but different from the Greek at places.

Eikona (English)
[html] (from goarch.com)
The intervals of this performance are completely western. No ornamentation at all. Notice however the preservation of the skeleton of the original melody in the English adaptation.

Long version

Ancient Melos

Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas
[wma, 1.5 Mb]
(exerpt, 1950s)

Simon Karas (Choir of the Association for the Dissemination of National Music)
[asf]
(from ecclesia.gr)

Ioannis Arvanitis/Yorgos Bilalis
Syntmesis by Ioannis Arvanitis
[wma, 5.6 Mb]

Demosthenis Paikopoulos
[mp3, 3.4 Mb]

Petros Byzantios' composition

G. K. Michalakis

[mp3, 6.3 Mb]