2024 03 29 Music – Poetry II
In collaboration with OPANDA, the Culture, Sports & Youth Organization of the City of Athens
Fri. 29 March 2024 20:30
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall
The relationship between poetry and music has always been a close one, and vital for both art forms. Music's limitless emotional depth gives poetry a goal to aim for, while poetry's clarity of meaning is something music has always sought to emulate. Great poems make great music, and the concert to be conducted by the multifaceted Levi Hammer brings together two works born of such fortunate comings-together. The programme also includes the Concerto for two pianos by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, a work as little known as it is scintillating, performed by the distinguished soloists Panagiotis Trochopoulos and Apostolos Palios.
19:30, free introductory speech by students of the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for ticket holders
Event Programme
LINA TONIA
(1985)
Ganymede (2020)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
(1862–1918)
La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), L. 62, cantata for soprano, choir and orchestra
GIORGOS KOUMENDAKIS
(b.1959)
Requiem for soprano, male choir and chamber orchestra (based on the poem "Lazarus" by Dimitris Kapetanakis)
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
(1890 – 1959)
Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, Η.292
Event Programme
Featuring
CONDUCTOR
Levi Hammer
SOLOISTS
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano
Lenia Zafeiropoulou, soprano
Panagiotis Trochopoulos, piano
Apostolos Palios, piano
Kora Karvouni, narrator
PARTICIPATIONS
Meizon Ensemble, conducted by Agathangelos Georgakatos
Equábili Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Agathangelos Georgakatos
Actress Kora Karvouni reads the poem “Lazarus”
Featuring
CONDUCTOR
Levi Hammer
SOLOIST
Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano
Lenia Zafeiropoulou, soprano
Panagiotis Trochopoulos, piano
Apostolos Palios, piano
Kora Karvouni, narrator
PARTICIPATIONS
Meizon Ensemble, conducted by Agathangelos Georgakatos
Equábili Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Agathangelos Georgakatos
Actress Kora Karvouni reads the poem “Lazarus”
