Fado

Our week-long visit to a very beautiful country, its friendly people and its amazing musical legacy ends today with a superb Greek vocalist who acts as a bridge between two nations and their cultures. With her interpretations, Aliki Kagialoglou delivers a powerful statement of cultural affinity and...

On opposite ends of the Mediterranean world, two musical traditions grew out of remarkably similar soil. One took root in the narrow streets of Lisbon, the other in the port neighborhoods of Athens and Piraeus. Fado and rebetiko never influenced each other directly — there is no evidence that one b...

With 19 albums released, nearly 30 years of career, and countless concerts around the world, Cristina Branco is a true ambassador of Portuguese culture. Traditional music is her main aesthetic root, but the influence of jazz, literature, and the musicians she shares the stage with gives her art a universal...

Throughout this week, we are visiting a very beautiful country with very friendly people and an amazing musical legacy. And, we are attempting to find similarities between the best-known genre of this country and Greek music such as rebetiko and art song. Our destination: Portuguese Fado II: Kalliroi...

Today, we are listening to an imaginary concert held jointly by Amalia Rodriguez and Maria Farantouri at L’Olympia in Paris. Well, the two queens of world music did appear at Olympia, but separately, on two separate occasions, in 1956 and 1984 respectively. By placing them together at the same venue, w...

Οι έρωτες ειναι το φάρμακο και το δηλητήριο ...άλλωστε αυτές οι λέξεις συγγενεύουν τόσο... είναι το γιν και το γιανγκ...είναι το λαμπρότερο ψέμα και η σκιώδης αλήθεια...ο Τριστάνος κι ο Δον Κιχώτης... Wagner και Fado στις Βραδινές Αρμονίες της Δευτέρας. Επιμέλεια - Παρουσίαση: Γιώργος Κωνστ...