Rating: - Real bouzoukis on a string orchestra pillow.
If you're looking for string orchestrated, romanticized versions of popular Greek songs, this is a good album. This version of "Never on Sunday" beats Percy Faith's overly cute, string orchestrated version on his "Tara's Theme" album (1961), since this version has real bouzoukis in it and also the full intro. Most of these songs do have bouzoukis, without which they wouldn't sound very Greek. A few songs here like "Athens By Night" have vocals, but most are instrumental. Many of these melodies will ... Read More

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Rating: - Doesn't feel authentic.
The music on this CD is nicely arranged and played, but it sounds too orchestrated! To be fair, it is performed by the 101 Strings Orchestra and it wasn't misrepresented in the write-up. But I was looking for music with a folksy feel like you might hear at a cafe in Greece, and this is not it.