Mythodea —
Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a choral symphony by Greek
electronic composer and artist Vangelis. The concert was held in The Temple of
Zeus, Athens, Greece on June 28, 2001, and the record was officially released
on October 23, 2001, to coincide with the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft entering
the orbit of planet Mars.
Vangelis Papathanasiou on synthesizers
and keyboards,
The London Metropolitan Orchestra
augmented by two harpists,
Sopranos Kathleen Battle and Jessye
Norman,
The chorus of the Greek National
Opera,
The Seistron and Typana percussion
ensembles.
Conducted by Blake Neely