Reset password

Enter your email and we’ ll send you a link to get back to your account.

NEXT 11:00 - 12:00
Infinitely Curious
Katerina Batzaki
SCHEDULE VOICE OF GREECE
Greek Music Express: Celebrating women in song: Eleni Lagou | 05 May 2024
This week here at GME is dedicated to International Women’s Day and today we will be listening to the songs of a very promising singer-songwriter of a younger generation: Eleni Lagou. Undoubtedly, something special is to be found in Lagou’s debut album, titled “Something to Give”. What she gives us is a...
Greek Music Express: Celebrating women in song: An interview with Chrysoula Kechagioglou | 04 May 2024
This week on Greek Music Express we will be drawing inspiration from International Women's Day, listening to some special female voices that have already left a remarkable footprint on Greek singing. First stop? Our beloved performer Chrysoula Kechagioglou, who stands out not only for her unique timbre...
The Greek Cousteau | Sunday 03 March 2024
Diver and researcher Alexis Papadopoulos, a pioneer in underwater cinematography in Greece, tells the story of a life full of sub-aquatic experiences and amazing discoveries. Interviewee: Alexis PapadopoulosInterview by: Stavros VlachosProducer: Stavros VlachosSound Designer: Iasonas...
Greek Music Express: Songs with Symphony Orchestras – Dionysis Tsaknis with two orchestras| 01 May 2024
Dionysis Tsaknis is a Greek composer, lyricist and singer. His first album was released in 1982, titled The Traveler's Ballad. The following year he released his second album together with Sofia Vossou titled Kali Akroasi. This was followed by the albums Trito Mati in 1987, Ftaine Ta Tragoudia in 1989...
Greek Music Express: Songs with Symphony Orchestras – Rita Antonopoulou sings Thanos Mikroutsikos | 29 Feb 2024
2000. Two dear friends of Thanos Mikroutsikos, Alexandros Myrat and Haris Alexiou, propose to the composer to orchestrate some of his songs for a symphony orchestra, so that they can be presented in a concert at the Athens Concert Hall. Despite his initial reservations, the creator gives in to the pressure....
Greek Music Express: Songs with Symphony Orchestras – Alkistis Protopsalti sings Ilias Andriopoulos | 28 Feb 2024
Composer Ilias Andriopoulos notes: “I introduced the symphonic orchestra for a reason. I didn't do it superficially to play songs that don't lend themselves to such treatments by big orchestras. I don't want to mention now neither colleagues, nor singers who do this simply to show off. In art, things a...
Greek Music Express: Songs with Symphony Orchestras – Markopoulos’ The Liturgy of Orpheus | 27 Feb 2024
In his lavishly scored oratorio The Liturgy of Orpheus, Yannis Markopoulos combines fragments of Orphic poems with a narrative text by Panos Theodoridis to create a work brimming with melodies, rhythms and instrumental tone colours. The latter include those of guitar, lute, kanonaki, lyre, harp and...
Greek Music Express: Songs with Symphony Orchestras – Savvorama: A symphonic panorama of Dionysis Savvopoulos | 26 Feb 2024
Today,  we shall be listening to a very powerful live recording of a concert of Dionysis Savvopoulos titled Savvorama. Savvopoulos, one of the few "revolutionaries" of the Greek music scene, gave a series of concerts in December 2000 at the Athens Concert Hall. Savvorama is a panorama of Savvopoulos ...
The lament from Epirus that changed my life | Sunday 25 February 2024
How Christorpher King, a music enthusiast from Hot Springs, Virginia, became a tireless and devoted advocate of the music of the southern Balkans and moved into a small village in Greece. Interviewee: Christopher KingInterview by: Chrysanthi NikaProducer: Charis PagonidouSound Designer:...
Infinitely Curious: Art Therapy | 25 Feb. 2024
Sometimes articulating a feeling or explaining a dynamic is difficult to do verbally. Here is where art therapy comes into play. It uses creativity and artistic expression to improve a person’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It is a unique non-verbal therapeutic modality to heal the past a...
Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music – Lena Pappa & Kiki Dimoula | 23 Feb 2024
Lena Pappa’s songs have been set to music by the Katsimihas brothers and Yiannis Nikolaou, among others. Pappa notes: “This is something that I consider important because composing music has an educational effect on the general public, through the marriage of two sensibilities, poetry and music”. As fo...
Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music– Nikiforos Vrettakos | 22 Feb 2024
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek poet whose literary career spanned nearly sixty years, along which he published several collections of poetry, prose works, and a long series of articles and literary essays. David Connolly, who has translated several of Vrettakos’ works, writes that his poems are “firmly roo...
Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music – Napoleon Lapathiotis | 21 Feb 2024
Napoleon Lapathiotis is one of the cursed figures of Greek literature, considered an important poet of the neo-symbolist and neo-romantic schools. In his early poems he is influenced by aestheticism and sensualism, while in his last poems he ends up in desperate and melancholic tones, dominated by the...
Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music – Kostas Karyotakis 2 | 20 Feb 2024
Karyotakis influenced many of the poets who came after him and created a literary fashion, Karyotacism, which flooded modern Greek poetry. Going against the sentimentality of his era, Karyotakis conveys a sense of the futile. He writes sarcastic poems about the inglorious and the insignificant as a...
Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music – Kostas Karyotakis pt.1 | 19 Feb 2024
Kostas Karyotakis was born in 1896 and died in 1928, committing suicide at the age of just 32. He is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s, with his poetry adding a tragic dimension to the neo-Symbolist and neo-Romantic poetry of his time. Today, we are listrening poetry...
‘How could I not love you, Maro?’ | Sunday 18 February 2024
The story of a love that overcame every obstacle in its way, even the ravages of time. Interviewee: Maro DamianidouInterview by: Chaidemeni PaltoglouProducer: Maya FilippopoulouSound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou, Dimitris PalaiogiannisSound Editor: Spyros LymperopoulosPhotos: Apostolis...
Infinitely Curious: Music Therapy | 18 Feb. 2024
Did you know that, for thousands of years, sound has been successfully used by man as a powerful healing mechanism? And it’s still being used today with great success.Despite our differences, most of us like listening to music in one form or another. But did you know that music helps our wellness?Music t...
Greek Music Express: Animals in songs – Seagulls | 16 Feb 2024
Today, our track list includes songs about seagulls – these lovely seabirds that have inspired several Greek music artists. Primarily, seagulls symbolise freedom, flight, departure, adventure, unconventional behaviour. Gulls are resourceful, inquisitive and intelligent, demonstrating complex methods o...