This week, we are taking a tour aroud the most beautiful artwork of Greek music albums and the painters behind it. After George Stathopoulos and Yannis Tsarouchis, it is time for Alekos Fassianos, his tremendously impactful international career, and his presence in Greek music albums with the artwork...
Tribute with amazing documents of the time to the conquest of the European Cup Winners' Cup by AEK on the same day in 1968. Nikolas Angelidis on TIME IN GREECE conveys frame by frame everything that happened that unforgettable night in Athens, in front of 80,000 spectators, a number that is a world...
We started with a 2-day tribute to George Stathopoulos and our next stop, today, is Yannis Tsarouchis. Tsarouchis, who was born in 1910 and died in 1989, was a modernist painter and set designer, and one of the very few Greek painters to achieve international fame. Known particularly for his homoerotic...
Painter Stathopoulos notes: “I really like Hadjidaki's music. I like Greek musicians. And I like Theodorakis, Xarchakos, Savvopoulos, Leontis, Loizos, Kouyoumtzis, and Mamagakis. These are all important artists. I listen to 90% Greek music, and I also have a 10% of foreign music that I listen t...
Today, our track list includes songs from albums with artwork drawn by painter George Stathopoulos. In particular, we shall be focusing on more folk paths, with creations by Nikos Mamagakis, Apostolos Kaldaras, Stavros Kougioumtzis, Stavros Xarhakos and Stamos Semsis. Stathopoulos is not only a top-class...
The show “Journeys Basking in Greek Light” with Giannis Papoutsakis on March 31st was dedicated to Stavros Xarchakos. The songs of the great Greek composer, his theatrical and cinematic successes, performed by: Bithikotsis, Moscholiou, Kokotas, Poly Panou, Gavalas, Karezi, Vougiouklaki, Dimitriadis, Xyl...
On Sunday, March 31st, the show “Our Town” makes a small tribute to Dimitris Christodoulou, with special references to this prolific, post-war writer who wrote some of the most beautiful lyrics, which became wonderful songs by important Greek composers and were performed by dozens of singers such as ...
On Saturday, March 30rd, the show “Our Town” pays a tribute to Napoleon Lapathiotis, as this year marks the 80th anniversary of his death.
Special references are made to his poetry, as well as to his texts published in literary magazines of the time.
Invited to the studio, director and writer Tak...
Although the film Chariots of Fire is a period piece set in the 1920s, the Academy Award-winning original soundtrack composed by Vangelis uses a contemporary 1980s electronic sound, with a strong use of synthesizer and piano among other instruments. This was a departure from earlier period films, which...
Nemostudios.co.uk mentions: “When film director Ridley Scott asked Vangelis to write the score to his upcoming film Blade Runner, contrary to public belief, the use of electronic music was not a deliberate attempt by Vangelis to copy commonly used ideas and sounds as seen in science fiction films. E...
Today's show featured, in replay, the radio tribute “THE CHILD IN OUR FOLK TRADITION”, which was broadcast live in the studio of Voice of Greece and is part of the music and dance performance of dance teacher Konstantina Vichou, presented at the Municipal Theater of Keratsini Antonis Samarakis.
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Odes is an album of Greek folk songs by Irene Papas and Vangelis. All the songs are traditional, except two which are original compositions by Vangelis. Recorded in Nemo studios, in 1979, the entirety of the album is performed and produced by Vangelis, with the addition of a five-people choir in the...
Prior to his work for Alexander film, Vangelis was already famous for his scores to Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Conquest of Paradise. He was directly approached by Oliver Stone. "I tried to remember how it was to live at the time, to be there. At the same time, I must speak the music language...
Today, here at GME, we will be celebrating the Greek Independence Day with songs about the heroes of the Revolution of 1821. The backbone of our track list will be the album “Fighters of Freedom”, with poetry of Dimitris Iatropoulos, Pantelis Prevelakis and George Seferis set to music by composer Nik...
“Historical Walks”, ERT's award-winning show, returns to the radio of Voice of Greece. Marilena Katsimi and her guests take you on a tour of Greece and the world, presenting topics from both contemporary history and the historicity of current issues.
Historical Walks will be broadcast every Saturday at ...
On Sunday March 24th, 2024, at 12:00 Greek time, the show “Our Town” will make a small tribute to the lyricist Giannis Lelakis.
One of the most important lyricists of our country, who was sung, loved but also wronged, Giannis Lelakis managed with his great lyrics to motivate composers and performers to ...
Iasis group, cofounded by Costas Baltazanis and Petros Kourtis, appeared for the first time on the Athens music scene in 1995, playing their own compositions for guitar, percussion and bass. What characterizes the group is the continuous search for traditional, Balkan and international influences....
Floros Floridis, one of the country’s more accomplished musicians, knows all too well how to solve the dilemma of pioneering artistry versus popularity. Ever since releasing his debut album, the 1979 “Improvising at Barakos” with pianist Sakis Papadimitriou, Floridis, a daringly fluent winds player, has c...
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