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 rooted in the Greek landscape and colored by the Greek light, their themes are ecumenical. His poetry praises the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be”. Today, we are listening to Bitter Eremite, a cycle of Vrettakos’ poems set to music by Panagiotis Constantopoulos, as well as to other songs composed by Christos Leontis, Terpsihori Papastefanou, Nikos Kallitsis and Pigi Lykoudi.