The light song is a genre that flourished in Greece in the first half of the 20th century, influenced by French and Latin American songs and characterised by intense theatricality and romanticism. Even though these songs are now considered outdated, they constitute an important part of Greek music...
This week, we take the finest product of Greek culture (music) and blend it with the finest product of the Greek land (wine) to produce a tribute to Greek songs about wine! Our starting point, today, is the art song genre and its greatest voices, from Eleni Vitali to Dimitra Galani, who sang the...
Elytis meets Dimitris Lagios and Michalis Tranoudakis
Odysseas Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979 for “his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and c...
Tasos Leivaditis
Tasos Leivaditis is a superb poet whose (largely unacknowledged) genius inspired a series of songs and albums. We will be primarily exploring the setting of his poetry to music by composer George Tsagaris, an endeavour that reveals the tremendous political and humanistic thrust...
Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.
Dimitris Papadimitriou’s Cavafy
With his album “An Alexandrian on an Alexandrian”, Dimitris Papadimitriou delivered a colossal work of 18 songs and six instrumentals inspired by the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy. The encounter of Papadimitriou with Cavafy is hardly surprising, since both were ...
Constantine P. Cavafy x 3
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cavafy is “one of the most important figures not only in Greek poetry but in Western poetry as well”. Naturally, he has been a favourite among Greek composers too, who have turned to his poetry multiple times in search of inspiration. Tod...
Ikaria
During the summer, all Ikarian villages host feasts to mark various religious and non-religious holidays. Traditional dishes, Ikarian wine, live music and lots of fun, with locals and tourists alike dancing the traditional Ikariotikos tune, singing along and partying till the early hours! T...
The sun-kissed instrumentals of Giannis Spanos
In our quest for the eternal Greek summer, we turn to Giannis Spanos, this beloved composer who coloured our memories with his special melodies. In particular, we turn to a relatively unknown collection of his instrumentals titled “Deep blue sea”, nex...
Summertime songs
Listening to Greek summertime songs at the start of October is our very own way of fighting the autumn …blues and the nostalgia for the Greek summer. From Locomondo to Eleni Dimou and from Dimitra Galani to Katsimiha brothers, we remind ourselves of the images, scents and colours o...
Οι «Κυκλάδες» του Βασίλη Δημητρίου
“Vassilis Dimitriou is well aware of the course and schools of Greek singing and thus he can express his melodic quests in different ways, using the form of the anonymous traditional song or the ‘roads’ of rebetiko or the style of Hatzidakis. The Greek trad...
Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.
Giannis Poulopoulos sings immigration songs The songs of today’s GME are mostly taken from the album “The songs of foreign lands”, which was released in 1976. This unjustifiably forgotten collection was composed by Giorgos Katsaros, written by Dimitris Iatropoulos and performed by Giannis Poulopoulos. Ο Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος στα «Τραγούδια της Ξενιτιάς» Μια σημαντική δουλειά από το μακρινό 1976, με τη βελούδινη φωνή του Πουλόπουλου, τους εμπνευσμένους στίχους του Ιατρόπουλου και τις στιβαρές μελωδίες του Κατσαρού, που δεν ακούστηκε σχεδόν καθόλου. Πάντως, με το συνεχιζόμενο δράμα της προσφυγιάς και της μετανάστευσης να ξεδιπλώνεται σήμερα, διατηρεί όλη τα διαχρονικότητά της.
Leros
“Songs of Leros”: A unique panorama of the music of Leros island curated by leading ethnomusicologists Markos Dragoumis and Thanasis Moraitis. This is essentially the first organised attempt to introduce the special colours of the island’s music tradition to a broader audience, through recor...
Karpathos
An initiation to the musical heritage of Karpathos through the album “Karpathian Music and Song – Traditional Musical Memories. Karpathians engage in poetic-musical dialogues for hours in social gatherings and parties. The main ‘tool’ of this interaction is ‘mantinathas’ – spontaneous c...
Vangelis Konitopoulos
Traditional songs from all around the Dodecanese, performed by Vangelis Konitopoulos, prominent member of a family of musicians that has marked the development of island music. The “king of nisiotika” has included the musical tradition of the Dodecanese in his vast repertoire, whi...
Approaches to the DodecaneseMusic for the islanders is a way of life, an integral part of their daily routine, and it is through songs that they tend to express their love, joy or grief. Today, we will be listening to representative songs from the music tradition of each island of the Dodecanese, performed...
Notis Mavroudis, part 5
From 1975 onwards, Notis Mavroudis permanently settled in Athens and started teaching classical guitar at the National Conservatory. In 1978 he took part in the international Festival of Political Song in East Berlin and in the 11th World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. As a...
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