ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra

One hundred years after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Giorgos Aravidis, meets the refugee composers of rebetiko music in a musical journey from Constantinople and the shores of Asia Minor to Piraeus with a symphonic sound.

The adaptation and processing were done by the musicologist and orchestrator Giannis Belonis.

Concert Program:

Introduction (Instrumental) - Tik Tik Tak - Traditional (Asia Minor - Ionian)
Menexedes and Zoumboulia - Traditional of Constantinople
Five Tough Guys in Pireaus - Giorgos Batis 1935
For You, My Dark-Eyed One - Spyros Peristeris / Minos Matsas 1937
Medley (Panagiotis Tountas) - Kaixis - Apostolos Hatzichristos - Giorgos Fotidis 1948
The Dawn's Minor Key - Spyros Peristeris / Minos Matsas 1936
Medley (Kostas Skarvelis)
My Mind Is Enchanted - Dimitris Gogos (Bayaderas) 1940
I'll Take an Airplane - Panagiotis Tountas 1932
Misirlou - Nikos Roubanis 1941
Your Jealous Eyes - Markos Vamvakaris 1938
The Prayer of the Tough Guy - Traditional
Before Dawn - Giannis Papaioannou / Charalambos Vasiliadis 1948
Frangosyriani - Markos Vamvakaris 1935