Religious Music This Hellenist Likes

As it is nearing the holidays, perhaps it is about time to make a post on some really cool music out there that deals with the Gods, worship, et cetera. Here are some selections from my music library that have overt or covert connection to the Gods we worship. This is only a small percentage of the music out there.

Apollon Musagete by Stravinsky.

Apollo by Kerry Getz. Strange album, very singer-songwriter. I'm unsure whether the title song is supposed to be about Apollon or the Apollo missions.

The Bacchic Dance of the Nymphs by Daemonia Nymphe.

“Building a Mystery” by Sarah McLachlan. While not explicitly Hellenic, I ran into this in early October and couldn't stop listening to it. It reminds me of the Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, in addition to the way that Mysteries are founded and evolve with time.

Daemonia Nymphe by Daemonia Nymphe.

Euripides' Bacchae by Petros Tabouris. Really interesting musical version of the Bacchae, which is an Athenian tragedy about the coming of Dionysos to Thebes.

The Frogs, a musical adaptation by Stephen Sondheim of Aristophanes’s comedy of the same name. Dionysos and his slave Xanthias go on a quest to the Underworld to bring back a playwright named Shaw (contemporary of Shakespeare) to help solve the world's problems.

“The Gods Favor Those” by Without Mirrors. Interesting piece of music.

“Invocation of the Sun” by Mirabilis

Krataia Asterope by Daemonia Nymphe. Music in honor of the Gods. In Greek. Many places try to categorize them under metal . . . and I'm not quite sure what that is about.

Olympus by Kelly Andrew Kaveny.

Sorrows of Young Apollo by Point of Ares.