This voluminous alto from Greece has a beautiful voice. She is already an old hand in the business and has collaborated with Angélique Ionatos on her award-winning CD "Sappho de Mytilène". The 22 songs on this CD are counted as "entechna" songs, a form of song that is not everything that rembetiko and folk songs are, a style that represents a feeling more than a clearly defined genre. Perhaps it
… can best be described with the term "art song". In any case, the style originated in the first years after the war and poetry is an important part of it. The 22 songs on this CD are a selection from previous recordings and concerts given. Nena Venetsanou sings songs by Mamangakis, Kazantzakis, Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, as well as own compositions and classical Greek songs. She is alternately accompanied by piano, guitar and cello and also regularly sings without accompaniment. As Venetsanou sings, the sirens must have sounded like that; whoever has heard this voice once is enchanted forever. (GO) _more
