We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Albums news every morning. This is music from the crossroads of Europe, centred on Greece and Turkey but also stretching to Lebanon and ...

The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra joins forces for the first time with distinguished Greek artist Maria Farantouri for a tribute to Mikis Theodorakis. The Magical Night concerts on May 14 and 15 also mark ...

Maria Farantouri talks of a time when music was “the embodiment of resistance”. The once-exiled singer and activist came to international attention when she used her music to campaign against the ...

What might on the surface appear as a meeting of disparate minds—jazz with Byzantine airs—ignores the fact that multi-reed/woodwind player Charles Lloyd has been embracing the music of the world for ...

For generations of Greek music fans, two names have come to symbolize the country and its social and political struggles: the internationally acclaimed singer Maria Farantouri and the composer whose ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is music from the crossroads of Europe, centred on Greece and Turkey but also stretching to Lebanon and ...

Charles Lloyd's unique sax playing always sounds voicelike, but even more so on this live show from an Athens amphitheatre with an old friend, Greek singing star Maria Farantouri. The music's grip ...