We have repeatedly turned to two historic albums that Myris and Markopoulos co-created: Ithageneia (Citizenship) and Hroniko (Chronicle). A big part of today’s track list of ours originates from a third, 1983 album of theirs titled Sirens. It is a work that was commissioned in 1981 by the Athens Festival. A...
This episode of "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" is dedicated to the great composer Yiannis Markopoulos, on the occasion of the completion of one year since his passing.
In his lavishly scored oratorio The Liturgy of Orpheus, Yannis Markopoulos combines fragments of Orphic poems with a narrative text by Panos Theodoridis to create a work brimming with melodies, rhythms and instrumental tone colours. The latter include those of guitar, lute, kanonaki, lyre, harp and...
The last leg of our week-long trip to the work of Yannis Markopoulos takes us to the 1970s, a period of relentless creativity for him. From 'Chronicle' to 'Immigrants' and from 'Citizenship' to 'Free Besieged', Markopoulos' albums in that decade reveal the full scale of...
As part of his radio show ‘’Journeys Basking in Greek Light’’, Giannis Papoutsakis will present a series of four special edition recordings where the composer himself has selected some of what he considers to be his most characteristics songs and melodies from his overall body of work, dedicating them to...
As part of his radio show ‘’Journeys Basking in Greek Light’’, Giannis Papoutsakis will present a series of four special edition recordings where the composer himself has selected some of what he considers to be his most characteristics songs and melodies from his overall body of work, dedicating them to...
Greek Music Express”: A series of episodes in English, dedicated to the compositions of Yannis Markopoulos
As part of his English radio show ‘’Greek Music Express’’, Hercules Economou curates and presents a series of three episodes dedicated to the most important work of the ren...
As part of his radio show ‘’Journeys Basking in Greek Light’’, Giannis Papoutsakis will present a series of four special edition recordings where the composer himself has selected some of what he considers to be his most characteristics songs and melodies from his overall body of work, dedicating them to...
As part of his English radio show ‘’Greek Music Express’’, Hercules Economou curates and presents a series of three episodes dedicated to the most important work of the renowned composer. This radio tribute is specifically created in English having in mind the Greeks who are living abroad, including 3rd and...
As part of his radio show ‘’Journeys Basking in Greek Light’’, Giannis Papoutsakis will present a series of four special edition recordings where the composer himself has selected some of what he considers to be his most characteristics songs and melodies from his overall body of work, dedicating them to...
The creative output of Yannis Markopoulos on modern Greek music is indisputable. Apart from his numerous song cycles based on setting famous Greek poems to music, Markopoulos excelled in symphonic music, oratorios, and music for film and theater.Voice of Greece Radio bids farewell to the visionary modern...
''Strolling around the alleyways of Yannis Markopoulos''
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