Today, we will be listening to excerpts from two albums by composer Elias Andriopoulos: The 1976 Seferis Cycle and the 1998 Argonauts – both based on poems by Seferis. The crème-de-la-crème of Greek vocalists will be keeping us company: Alkistis Protopsalti, Nikos Xylouris, Nena Venetsanou, Manolis Mitsias. Andriopoulos recalls: ‘At that time we were coming out of the dictatorship, we were young and when you are young you have drive, passion, strength, militancy and stubbornness. We were convinced that our country had to go forward, we had to beautify its face and to discover its soul, through symbols of the recent past’.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou