Vangelis discography

Vangelis (born March 29, 1943) is a Greek composer and performer. He gained wide popularity after composing soundtracks to Chariots of Fire (1981) and Blade Runner (1982).^[1]

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
Year	Album details	AUT	FRA	GER	ITA	NLD	SWE	SWI	UK	US
1972	Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit (lit. "Make Your Dream Last Longer Than the Night") Released: 1972 Label: Reprise, # 54009 (LP) Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1973	Earth Released: 1973 Label: Vertigo, # 6499 693 (LP) Format: CD in 1996	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1975	Heaven and Hell Released: 1975 Label: RCA (original) / Windham Hill (reissue) Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	31	204
1976	Albedo 0.39 Released: 1976 Label: Windham Hill RCA (LP) # 3017 Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	18	—
1977	Spiral Released: 1977 Label: RCA #3022 (LP) Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	38	—	—	—	—
1978	Beaubourg Released: 1978 Label: Windham Hill RCA (LP) # INTS 5158 Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1979	China Released: 1979 Label: Polydor (LP) POLD 5018(CS) 813653-4 Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	31	—	—	—	—
1980	See You Later Released: 1980 Label: Polydor Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1984	Soil Festivities Released: 1984 Label: Polydor Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	45	—	—	55	—
1985	Mask Released: 1985 Label: Polydor Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	69	—
1985	Invisible Connections Released: 1985 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1988	Direct Released: 1988 Label: Arista Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	—	33	—	—	—
1990	The City Released: 1990 Label: Atlantic Format: LP album	—	—	—	—	82	—	—	—	—
1995	Voices Released: 1995 Label: Atlantic Format: LP album	6	—	24	—	36	50	31	58	—
1996	Oceanic Released: 1996 Label: Atlantic (USA) / WEA (Europe) Format: LP album	22	29	87	—	98	60	37	—	—
1998	El Greco Released: 1998 Label: EastWest / Atlantic Format: LP album	—	66	74	—	—	—	—	159	—
2001	Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Released: 2001 Label: Sony Classical Format:	—	—	46	39	—	—	75	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or receive certification.

Score albums

(1970) Sex Power - film score
(1973) L'Apocalypse des animaux - score to Frédéric Rossif TV series
(1975) Entends-tu les chiens aboyer ?, re-issued as Ignacio - score to Mexican film ¿No Oyes Ladrar los Perros? (lit. Don't you hear the dogs barking?)
(1976) La Fête sauvage - score to the Frédéric Rossif film
(1979) Opéra sauvage - score to the Frédéric Rossif TV series
(1981) Chariots of Fire - score to the Hugh Hudson film
(1981) Cosmos
(1983) Antarctica - score to the film Nankyoku Monogatari
(1984) The Bounty (2CD) Limited Edition
(1992) 1492: Conquest of Paradise - score to the Ridley Scott film
(1992) Bitter Moon - score to the 1992 Roman Polanski film
(1994) Blade Runner - score to the 1982 Ridley Scott film
(1996) Cavafy (Kavafis)
(2004) Alexander - score to the Oliver Stone film
(2007) Blade Runner Trilogy. 25th Anniversary - 3 CD set featuring the remastered 1994 release, a disc with previously unreleased music from the Ridley Scott film, and a disc with music inspired by the film
(2007) El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - score to the Yannis Smaragdis film
(2008) Świadectwo (with Robert Janson) - Polish 13-track CD soundtrack for the 'Swiadectwo [Testimony]' movie, the biography/documentary about the life of Pope John Paul II
(2012) Chariots Of Fire：The Play (Music From The Stage Show) [2012.07.23]

Limited releases

(1984) Silent Portraits - LP album included in a book of portraits - print run: 600
(1995) Foros Timis Ston Greco - CD album included in a book about Greek painter El Greco - print run: 3,000; later expanded and put in general release as El Greco
(2004) Ithaca - one-track CD-single, with a Cavafy poem read by Sean Connery, included in the book A Journey in Colour with paintings of Sean Connery's wife, Micheline Roquebrune Connery - print run: 3,000

Collaboration albums

(1968) 1965-1968 - Vangelis & The Forminx
(1976) Phos - Socrates
(1977) Chinese Restaurant - Krisma (Chrisma)
(1977) Magic - Demis Roussos
(1979) Odes - Irene Papas
(1979) Hibernation - Krisma (Chrisma)
(1980) Short Stories - Jon & Vangelis
(1981) The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon & Vangelis
(1981) Ich Hab' Keine Angst (German lyrics) / Moi, je n'ai pas peur (French lyrics) - Milva
(1983) Private Collection - Jon & Vangelis
(1984) Reflection - Demis Roussos
(1984) The Velocity of Love - Suzanne Ciani
(1986) Rapsodies - Irene Papas
(1986) Geheimnisse (German lyrics) / Tra Due Sogni (Italian lyrics) - Milva
(1991) Page of Life (U.S. and European versions) - Jon & Vangelis
(1996) A Separate Affair - Neuronium (Michel Huygen and Carlos Guirao)
(1998) Another Page of Life - Jon & Vangelis

Compilation albums

(1978) The Best of Vangelis
(1982) To The Unknown Man Vol. 1
(1982) To The Unknown Man Vol. 2
(1984) The Best of Jon & Vangelis - Jon & Vangelis
(1989) Themes, with unreleased tracks
(1991) Greatest Hits
(1994) Chronicles - Jon & Vangelis
(1995) Best in Space
(1995) Mundo Magico de Vangelis
(1995) Themes II (unofficial release)
(1996) Gift
(1996) Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear), with unreleased tracks
(1997) The Best of Vangelis
(2000) Reprise 1990-1999, with unreleased tracks
(2002) Cosmos
(2003) Odyssey: The Definitive Collection, with unreleased tracks
(2012) The Collection
(2013) Light & Shadow : The Best of (Vangelis) [2013.07.12 Japan] [2013.07.19 Korea] [2013.07.25 UK]

Unofficial albums

Strictly not bootleg recordings as they appeared on a label, but they were released without Vangelis' permission and were later withdrawn from the market.

(1978) Hypothesis (alt. Visions of the Future)
(1978) The Dragon

EPs/Singles

(1968) The Clock / Our Love Sleeps on the Water
(1976) So Long Ago, So Clear / Heaven and Hell Theme
(1976) Pulstar / Alpha
(1978) To the Unknown Man / To the Unknown Man 2
(1979) The Long March / The Long March 2
(1980) Don't Be Foolish / Doesn't Matter - Peter Marsh
(1980) My Love / Domestic Logic One
(1981) Chariots of Fire: Titles / Eric's Theme
(1981) Cosmos Theme (Heaven and Hell) / Alpha
(1988) Will of the Wind / Intergalactic Radio Station / Metallic Rain
(1991) Wisdom Chain / Page of Life / Sing with Your Eyes - Jon & Vangelis
(1992) Conquest of Paradise / Moxica and the Horse
(1992) Conquest of Paradise / Moxica and the Horse / Line Open / Landscape
(1992) In London - Neuronium & Vangelis
(1993) 28th Parallel / West Across the Ocean Sea
(1995) Voices / Voices 2
(1995) Voices / Voices 2 / Voices 3
(1996) Ask the Mountains / Slow Piece - Vangelis with Stina Nordenstam
(1996) A Separate Affair (EP) - Neuronium & Vangelis - remixes of In London; remastered and re-released in 2002.
(1996) Sauvage et Beau / Himalaya / La Petite Fille de la mer / I'll Find My Way Home (EP)
(1997) March with Me / Like a Dream - Montserrat Caballé and Vangelis
(2001) Mythodea Special Edit (CD-Single)
(2002) "Anthem (The 2002 FIFA World Cup Official Anthem)" - in varied editions

Others (with pseudonyms)

(1971) Astral Abuse/Who Killed, as Alpha Beta.
(1974) Who/Sad Face, as Odyssey.
(1978) Red Square, as Richard Broadbaker - Mama O'.

Unreleased works

Film scores

(1967) 5000 Ψέμματα [sic] (psemmata, lit. "5000 Lies") (Greece)
(1974) Amore (lit. Love) (France)
(1975) Crime and Passion (alt. Ace Up My Sleeve) (USA)
(1980) Prkosna delta (lit. Defiant Delta) (Yugoslavia)
(1982) Missing (USA); main theme appears in compilation Themes.
(1984) The Bounty (UK/U.S.); opening and end titles appear in compilation Themes.
(1989) Francesco (Italy/West Germany). iTunes has the "Suite from the Motion Picture 'Francesco' (feat. Dominik Hauser)" An unofficial special limited edition CD was released by Andromeda Music in 2002 (AMO103).
(1992) Bitter Moon (France/UK); main theme appeared in compilation Reprise 1990-1999. iTunes has the "Suite from the Motion Picture 'Bitter Moon' (feat. Dominik Hauser)"
(1992) La Peste (lit. The Plague) (France/UK/Argentina); "Psalmus Ode" appears in compilation Reprise 1990-1999.
(1996) Kavafis (alt. Cavafy) (Greece); main theme appeared in compilation Odyssey - The Definitive Collection.
(2001) I Hope... (Romania), short film

Documentary scores

(1972) Au Pays des Visages (France)
(1972) Salut Jerusalem (France)
(1973) Georges Mathieu ou la Fureur d'Être (Georges Mathieu or the Fury of Being) (France)
(1974) Georges Braque ou le Temps Différent (France)
(1980) Carl Sagan's Cosmos (USA)
(1982) Pablo Picasso, Peintre (France)
(1984) Sauvage et Beau (France); opening titles appear in Sauvage et Beau EP (1986) and compilation Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear).
(1987) Pasteur le Siècle (France)
(1988) De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (France)
(1989) Morandi (Italy)
(1991) Indonésie I : Les Vergers de l'Enfer (France) Unofficially released in 2000
(1991) Indonésie II : Sumatra (France) Unofficially released in 2000
(1998) Microneurosurgery with videotapes (Greece); Medical Publications Konstandaras; PAL, 3 videotapes
(2012) Trashed (UK) director : Candida Brady

Theatre music

(1983) Elektra (Greece)
(1992) Medea (Spain)
(2001) Las Troyanas (Spain)
(2002) A Vihar (lit. The Tempest) (Hungary)
(2005) Antigone (Italy)
(2012) Chariots of Fire - The Play (Music From The Stage Show)

Ballet music

(1983) R.B. Sque (UK)
(1985) Frankenstein - Modern Prometheus (UK, Netherlands)
(1986) The Beauty and the Beast (UK)

References

↑ Vangelis - Biography

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