2022 07 02 Athens Festival

Co-prodution: Athens State Orchestra – Athens Epidaurus Festival Works by Evangelatos, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff

Sat. 02 July 2022 21:00

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

The concert opens with one of the most important symphonic works of Antiochos Evangelatos, promiment representative of the National School of Music. Subsequently, legendary cellist Mischa Maisky performs the epic Cello Concerto by Czech Romantic composer Antonín Dvořák. In the second part of the concert, up-and-coming French conductor Lionel Bringuier conducts Rachmaninoff’s epic, timeless, and popular Symphony No. 2, the crown in the jewel of his symphonic work.

Event Programme

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

(1873–1943)

Symphony no. 2 in E minor, opus 27

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

(1841–1904)

Concerto for cello and orchesra in B minor op. 104

ANTIOCHOS EVANGELATOS

(1903–1981)

Overture to a Drama

Event Programme

Featuring

CONDUCTOR

Lionel Bringuier

SOLOIST

Mischa Maisky, cello

Featuring

CONDUCTOR

Lionel Bringuier

SOLOIST

Mischa Maisky, cello

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