Gheorghe Zamfir - The Lonely Shepherd

Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian artist: composer, interpreter, poet. He was born in Gaiesti, on the 6th of april 1941. Attracted to music he entered the Gaiesti Music School, hoping to study the accordion. Instead, he was assigned to a pan flute class where promptly demonstrated an extraordinary ability with the instrument. In 1955 enters the Music School in Bucharest (today- the Musical High School “Dinu Lipatti) in the class of Fanica Luca. In 1959 Zamfir receives the First Prize in a national contest. The same year, he recorded the first songs, personal compositions in a popular style with the Folkloric Orchestra of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. Another important prize is the one from Levadia, Greece. After the high school graduation, (1961) enters the “Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory from Bucharest and graduates in 1966 (Pedagogy section), and in 1968 the section of choir conducting with prof. D.D. Botez and orchestra conducting with Iosif Conta. Most notably his song "The Lonely Shepard" was used in Kill Bill.

Tracklist:

01. The Lonely Shepherd (4:25)
02. The Rose (4:21)
03. Floral Dance (3:32)
04. Theme From Summer Of '42 (3:35)
05. Bilitis (4:28)
06. Adagio 8 (2:58)
07. Black Rose (3:46)
08. Eté d'amour (3:15)
09. She (4:03)
10. Laryssa (3:42)
11. Theme From Limelight (3:24)
12. Run To Me (3:20)
13. Elsha (4:17)
14. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (5:26)

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