Echoes of war: Mahler and Korngold

80 years from the end of WWII

Fri. 31 October 2025 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

The young lead musician John Warner, a rising star of the British music spectrum, apart from being a conductor of the Oxford Opera, is also the founder of the "Orchestra for the Earth" which acts at a global level, combining music with ecological awareness. In his debut with the Athens State Orchestra, he shall present two works of major Austrian composers who have many and essential common features, although born with a gap of more than forty years. Mahler and Korngold are the two sides of the same musical "coin": the former, introversive and hypersensitively psychoanalytic, the latter, extroversive and "aggressively" charming, they share the same hyperromantic language, sensual, lavish, delightful in all aspects!

Event Programme

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897 – 1957)
Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 5, GMW 44

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

Ticket price: 35€, 25€, 20€, 15€ and 10€ (concessions)

19:30 Free introductory speech for ticket holders

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