Notis Mavroudis, part 3
Notis Mavroudis’ discography is huge, yet consistent in terms of quality. In 1976, the album ‘Paintings by Theofilos’ with lyrics by Akos Daskalopoulos was released. In 1977, he set poems by Manos Hadjidakis to music on the album ‘Child of the Earth’. In 1985, the album ‘Er...
Notis Mavroudis, part 2
Notis Mavroudis was born in Athens in 1945. He spent the first two years of his life in prison with his mother, who was a political prisoner after the Greek Civil War. In 1958 he started classical guitar lessons at the National Conservatory of Athens with Dimitris Fampas and graduate...
Notis Mavroudis, part 1
Greek composer Notis Mavroudis died in January 2023 after a horrific accident at his home at Mount Pelion, at the age of 77. Mavroudis was a songwriter, guitarist, columnist, and radio producer. He worked with many distinguished musicians and was honored with international awards....
The traumatic experiences she went through as a child in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen left permanent emotional scars on Rina Revach. Decades later, she will go on a journey of salvation to the place where she learned what true horror means.
Interviewee: Rina Revach
Interview...
Many are those who believe that meditation is power. In times of stress, anxiety and isolation, meditation is one of the most beneficial and effective practices for understanding our emotions and how they relate to the world and our existence. For years now it has been proven that the frequent practice...
For Smyrna
"Neither my grandmother, nor my grandfather or any of my other relatives, as far as I know, are from Smyrna. But I, like most Greeks, carry it within me as a sweet memory, as a memory of pain, but also, strangely enough, as a cause of pride and joy, which I hope my music will convey to you"....
Songs from Asia Minor live from …Utrecht
Our tribute to Asia Minor songs continues today with a fantastic live recording of a concert in Utrecht, Holland on 15 December 2007. We will be listening to the special voice of Katerina Papadopoulou and to two colossal soloists, oud player and singer Christos T...
Nikos Androulakis sings the Smyrneika
Andreas Mitsou has said the following about Nikos Androulakis, the singer of Asia Minor songs that we are listening to today: “Androulakis touches me with his genuine passion and especially with his love for tradition. He seems to have a conscious relationship w...
The Estudiantina Orchestra
The name of the orchestra derives from the most famous Greek orchestra that was created in Smyrna and toured the world between 1898 and 1921. Thus, in the footsteps of a glorious history, the new Estudiantina was created in 1998 by Andreas Katsigiannis. It is a 20-member...
Scent of Smyrne
The album “Aroma Smyrne”, released in 2004, is a truly exhaustive collection of songs from Asia Minor. Its sound is shaped by leading soloists like Giorgos Koros, Nikos Saragoudas and Manolis Pappos and the songs are performed by top folk and traditional performers, such as Glykeria, Aga...
During the construction of the Athens Metro, the skull of child is discovered, who died during the plague in the 5th century BC. Using the skull as a base, Professor Manolis Paparigorakis, who was researching the appearance of ancient Greeks, began to reconstruct the face of the little Athenian, who...
Voyage to Lesbos
The album "Journey to Lesvos" includes a small part of the exciting repertoire of the island of Lesvos. This is a place with rich sounds and with many influences from the West and the East. The musical journey takes you mentally to the beautiful corners and the picturesque alleys of...
Songs from the village of Ayiassos
With their ceaseless imagination and work, the inhabitants of Ayiasos, Lesbos, carved out an unsurpassable artistic and folk tradition. And raised with the melodies played by the magic flute of nature, such as the sound of the wind and the roars of winter storms,...
Angelique Ionatos’ Sappho De Mytilene
Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written and, although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded often as the greatest woman poet in world l...
Mariza Koch, Nikos Xydakis, Sappho
Composer Nikos Xydakis explains his approach to Sapho’s poetry: "I always found it very difficult to put a melody onto a direct, erotic speech. My motivation was to make the words sound convincing in my mouth. Regardless of whether they were spoken yesterday or t...
Sotiris Kakisis’ Sappho
Scholar Dimitrios Kargiotis notes the following about the way in which poet Sotiris Kakisis translated Sappho’s poetry into modern Greek: “Kakisis endeavours to attain totality against the fragmentary nature of the Sapphic corpus. He delves into a poetics of restitution, inven...
Do we really see everything on an archaeological site? What goes on when the visitors leave? What special requests do visitors make? Sotiris Gousis worked as a technician on the Acropolis for decades. He knows all its hidden secrets and shares a few of them with us…
Interviewee: Sot...
Nikos Kavvadias
Nikos Kavvadias was born on 11 January 1910 and died on 10 February 1975. He was a Greek poet, writer and a sailor by profession. He used his travels around the world, the life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people, outside the boundaries of...
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