“Each time I set out to study Mikis’s scores, I recall the endless conversations we had at Epifanous 1, about music, his music, and Greece. Above all, Greece—its past, but also its present and future. These were his great loves. These inspired him. His monumental body of work evokes a Greece that has passed. Yet through his notes, it fills you with images… And this Greece comes alive again, reborn.”
— Ilias Voudouris
Alongside excerpts from the ballet Zorba and the epic Symphony No. 1—works that reveal the symphonic complexity of Mikis’s musical thought—Yiannis Kotsiras interprets some of his most beloved popular songs. In orchestrations by violinist and composer Antonis Sousamoglou and Lazaros Tsavdaridis, these songs acquire symphonic dimensions.
