Music

A show filled with songs we love and melodies that bring back memories, featuring tributes to influential artists.

This week, here at GME, we have been pinpointing the position of poetry in modern Greek song through the work of contemporary composers and today we are remembering an existentialist poet who was born on this day, October 30, 1896. Kostas Karyotakis is a key figure not only in Greek poetry, but also...

A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from ERT’s archive, new album releases and fresh recordings from ERT’s Musical Ensembles.

A show filled with songs we love and melodies that bring back memories, featuring tributes to influential artists.

Today, we turn to a set of relatively recent releases that stand at the crossroads of two worlds, poetry and music. Composers such as George Kagialikos, Alexandros Gourgoulios and Giorgos Komboyannis demonstrate that Greek art song has not only a glorious past but also a fascinating present, with explorations...

A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from ERT’s archive, new album releases and fresh recordings from ERT’s Musical Ensembles.

Today, October 28, we celebrate the “No” or “Ohi” Day, i.e. the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum and the entry of Greece to World War II. And our track list shall reflect this idea of saying “no”, because resistance is not a historical artefact, but an everyday practice that begins from our daily lif...

A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from ERT’s archive, new album releases and fresh recordings from ERT’s Musical Ensembles.

A musical journey through the alleyways of Greek music, with beloved melodies from the early 20th century until this day. Produced and presented by Maria Reboutsika

This episode is dedicated to Babis Tsertos — the singer who, as a student, experienced firsthand the “revival” of rebetiko music. He learned to play the bouzouki and, in 1982, when the first rebetadika (rebetiko clubs) began to appear, he started performing professionally in them. Produced and p...

Throughout the week that starts today, we shall be celebrating the position of poetry in modern Greek song through the work of contemporary composers and songwriters. Domenica rock band sets to music Miltos Sahtouris and modern poets, songwriter Haris Katsimihas sheds light on the significance of the...

A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from ERT’s archive, new album releases and fresh recordings from ERT’s Musical Ensembles.

Σήμερα, κάνουμε κι εμείς μια στάση στη μεγάλη επέτειο του ελληνικού τραγουδιού, στα 100 χρόνια παρουσίας του Μάνου Χατζιδάκι, ακούγοντας τα τραγούδια του με μια κλασική κιθάρα. Την κιθάρα των Κώστα Γρηγορέα, Έλενας Παπανδρέου, Μάρως Ραζή, Βαγγέλη Μπουντούνη, Παναγιώτη Μάργαρη, Νότη Μαυρουδή, Στέλλας Κυπρ...

Στις 25 Οκτωβρίου, πολύ φτωχότεροι από το φευγιό του Σαββόπουλου, γιορτάζουμε τα γενέθλια ενός εκλεκτού συναδέλφου του. Με το προσωπικό του ύφος, τις πρωτότυπες μελωδίες και τον ερμηνευτικό του δυναμισμό, ο Θανάσης Γκαϊφύλλιας προσέφερε πολλά στην ανάδυση και παγίωση του μοντέλου του τραγουδοποιού. Στο μετα...

This episode of “Irregular Notes” was dedicated to the singer Kaity Chomata, whose name became inseparably linked with that of Giannis Spanos. When Spanos returned from France in search of voices to express a new musical movement he called the “New Wave” (Neo Kyma), he chose Kaity Chomata — elevating...

A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from ERT’s archive, new album releases and fresh recordings from ERT’s Musical Ensembles.

“The melodist is the hierophant of the Gods, the representative of the people, who takes care, as a practitioner, to evoke and express the sensitivity of the time, and not to flatter the habits of times and of the masses. For him, a song is a sacred text that contains the scriptures, the commandments a...

This episode of “Irregular Notes” was dedicated to the great Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis, widely regarded as the first, in postwar Greece, to bridge classical music with the popular musical tradition through both his theoretical writings and his compositions. Produced and presented by Ste...