A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
This week, here at GME, we have been celebrating the outstanding work of Yorgos Kazantzis, a talented composer who has played a key role in boosting art song, the dominant genre of Greek music in the last half a century. Today, we will be exploring the song collections that he released in the 21st century...
A show featuring songs we’ve loved, melodies that awaken memories, and tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also highlighting jazz artists and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Sougioul to Xylina S...
A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
Yorgos Kazantzis, one of the most important Greek composers, was born and raised in Thessaloniki, in the Kalamaria area. He has had numerous collaborations with prominent singers such as Dimitris Zervoudakis, Melina Kana and Pantelis Theoharidis, and has offered us some of the greatest art song collections...
A show featuring songs we’ve loved, melodies that awaken memories, and tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also highlighting jazz artists and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Sougioul to Xylina S...
A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
The first period of Giorgos Kazantzis’ creative work strongly bears the characteristics of a musician seeking for his personal identity in the classical form, mainly, but also having basic influences from the modern Western world, rock and jazz music. His musical education, moreover, including theory, c...
A show featuring songs we’ve loved, melodies that awaken memories, and tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also highlighting jazz artists and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Sougioul to Xylina S...
A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, the general-in-chief of the Greeks in the Trojan war, avenges his father’s murder by his mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus. This was his duty as expressed by his sister Electra and the oracle of Delphi. So, he returns to Mycenae from his hideaway and slays both of t...
A show featuring songs we’ve loved, melodies that awaken memories, and tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also highlighting jazz artists and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Sougioul to Xylina S...
A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
This week, here at GME, we decided to commit all of our broadcasts to presenting the universe of a magnificent creator with a solid grip of melody and tons of sensitivity: Giorgos Kazantzis. The formal occasion is his 70th birthday tomorrow, on February 11. Kazantzis has been active in different fields...
“Before I die I’m going to show you bastards who I am…”
A show featuring songs we’ve loved, melodies that awaken memories, and tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also highlighting jazz artists and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Sougioul to Xylina S...
A daily journey through the musical tradition of Greece. Featuring old recordings from the archive of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), new album releases, as well as fresh recordings from ERT's Musical Ensembles.
Produced and presented by Maria Koutsimpiri
The discographic debut of Iraklis Triantafyllidis, the 1976 “In Other Worlds” album, is widely regarded as a work of rare beauty by an artist who had the potential to become the ‘new face’ of Greek song in the second half of the 1970s – had he wanted to. The material itself, its sheer strength and dynam...
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