We continue our week-long tribute to Greek piano music with an interview with highly talented classical composer Grigoris Grigoriou. Grigoriou, who holds a PhD in composition and who has spent time abroad at the prestigious St. Petersburg State Conservatory, is discussing with us issues such as the...
A unique tribute with audio documents, for the first appearance of the legendary Rolling Stones in Athens! Just four days before the April junta coup breaks out, Mick Jagger and company perform at an eventful concert that never ended... on Alexandras Avenue. Their representative threw red carnations...
Giorgos Hatzinasios was born in Thessaloniki and started piano lessons at the age of 6. After completing his studies in Greece, he moved to Paris where he studied composition, orchestration and orchestral conducting. From the 1970s onwards, he established himself as a leading art and folk composer...
The week that starts today here at GME has a more classical scent, as it explores piano versions of Greek songs or works written especially for this instrument. Today, we will be celebrating the encounter of Manos Hadjidakis with traditional and rebetiko rhythms and melodies, as it has been reflected...
The show TIME IN GREECE hosts the soul of the Greek Film Archive, director Theodoros Adamopoulos and cinematographers Tasos Adamopoulos and Tasos Aronitis. We turn the calendar back sixty years ... in 1964. It was then that the short film "The Wheel" was shot by the brothers Theodoros and Nikos Adamopoulos....
The show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" with Giannis Papoutsakis on March 14th was dedicated to Thanos Mikroutsikos, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of his birth. We listened to his songs by the voices of: Alexiou, Mitropanos, Papakonstantinou, Dalaras, Koutra, Mitsias, Dimitriadis, Merantza,...
_ Η πόλη μας το βράδυ του Σαββάτου αλλάζει όψηΤρελαίνει και τρελαίνεται σε κάθε εποχή _ _tracklist The Isley Brothers – Ohio/Machine Gun David Bowie – Amsterdam Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London Natalie Merchant – Portofino Foxygen – San Francisco Gilbert Bécaud – Nathalie Mansfield TYA – Petite Italie They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Τάνια Τσανακλίδου – Tarantela Devendra Banhart – Santa Maria de Feira Ryan Adams – New York, New York Rykarda Parasol – Texas Midnight Radio Σπύρος Σακκάς- Αχ Παπουαλίλη Lilipoupoli Orchestra – Tώρα που πας κι εσύ στη Λιλιπούπολη
The Rast bouzouki quartet was created in 2000, based on a joint idea of Giorgos Altis, Thanasis Vassilas, Nikos Katsikis and Pantelis Konstantinidis, four virtuosos of the bouzouki. The name of the group comes from the musical road "Rast", which belongs to the basic musical scales of the Eastern Mediterranean...
On April 13th, 2024, exactly one century will be completed since that meeting of refugees who decided in the center of Athens, at 24 Veranzerou Street, at the sporting goods store of Kostas Dimopoulos and brothers Emilios and Menelaos Ionas, to create a sports club that will bring back the memories...
The beautiful bouzouki tunes that we shall be listening to belong primarily to three albums of Christos Nikolopoulos titled Folk Passages, Roads of the East and Cyclamens of Mount Olympus. The last album, released in 1997, also hosts the fantastic Florina Brass Band. Now, today’s tracklist includes i...
"Voices and music" pays tribute to composer Dimitris Lagios.
Dimitris Lagios was born in Zakynthos on April 7th, 1952. Son of Spyros Lagios and Maria, born Tetradi, from Zakynthos. He studied piano, guitar, and music theory at the National Conservatory. His teachers were composers Michalis Vourtsis...
Thanasis Polykandriotis, son of folk master Thodoros Polykandriotis, is a great composer and bouzouki soloist as well as a dedicated teacher. He has left his mark with hundreds of compositions to his credit and has appeared in the most famous concert halls of Europe, the United States and Australia....
A magical walk in the unique beauties of Kasos. Nikolas Angelidis meets Ilias Mastropavlos, special technician and pebble designer... We travel through the eternal blue of the Dodecanesian land, learn about the amazing natural trails of Kasos which are still wild but unspoiled and we draw information...
This week here at GME is dedicated to the greatest virtuosos of Greece’s most popular musical instrument: the bouzouki! Yannis Stamatiou (“Sporos” - also known as John Stamatis) was a superb bouzouki soloist and even today, many years after his passing away in 2011, he is widely regarded as a legen...
Bouzouki instrumentals – this is the theme of our week-long tribute that starts today. And our starting point is the crème-de-la-crème of bouzouki soloists: Giannis Papaioannou, Markos Vamvakaris, Manolis Hiotis, Vasilis Tsitsanis, Giorgos Zambetas, Giorgos Mitsakis, Dimitris Stergiou, Costas Papadopoulos, Lak...
TIME IN GREECE goes back in a time and place that was stained with blood and marked our history... On this day in 1896 the multi-day militant strike mobilization of the miners broke out in Lavrion. Reacting to the inhumane working conditions, the brutal exploitation by employers and the unaccountability...
The backbone of today’s tribute to painter Theofilos is a 1976 collection of songs titled Paintings of Theofilos, written by Akos Daskalopoulos and composed by Notis Mavroudis. The songs are performed by Alexandra and Haris Galanos. Next to them, we will be listening to songs with references to Theofilos p...
A breathtaking tribute by Nikolas Angelidis on TIME IN GREECE about the massacre of civilians in Kleisoura on April 5th, 1944. All events as they unfolded frame by frame... How we got to the massacre of 280 innocent people. The battles of the guerrillas in the mountains of the region and the "reprisals"...
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