Greek Music Express: Piano music by Thanos Mikroutsikos and other modern composers  | 18 April 2024

Our next stop in our week-long journey to Greek piano music involves the art of Thanos Mikroutsikos and a set of other renowned modern composers, such as Theodore Antoniou, Kyriakos Sfetsas and Periklis Koukos. A solid selection of Mikroutsikos’ piano works is to be found in the album “Dance and memories”, with piano virtuoso Danae Kara. A review of the album for Gramophone website notes: “Thanos Mikroutsikos is evidently at the forefront of contemporary music in Greece. (…) The present disc provides an overview of his piano music, a medium only recently explored (…) these works, capably executed by Danae Kara, make diverting listening as they skilfully navigate the dividing line between anodyne and ingratiating”.