Postponed: Beethoven's septet
If you believe that Beethoven’s revolutionary spirit was only evident after a certain point in his career, then it is worth listening to his Septet, a work which achieved fame from the outset and remains hugely popular to this day. Although the work has a lightness to it—indeed, it can feel like a serenade at times—, Beethoven's genius finds a way to experiment with its forms and timbres, to develop its ideas, and to create a sound world of unparalleled beauty.
Clarinet trio
Unlike Brahms' Trio, which is among that composer's final works, Beethoven's Trio is a youthful work. Both pieces put the velvety timbre of the clarinet to outstanding use, combining it harmoniously with the deep, sensual sound of the cello.
Tribute to Nino Rota
"Metallon", the prolific brass and percussion ensemble, performs some of Nino Rota's best-loved melodies from movies that have gone down in film history –including The Godfather, The Clowns, Eight and a Half ,and La Strada– conducted by Nikos Haliassas.
Bass Trip
The concert is entitled “Bass Trip” after the work of that name by Pēteris Vasks, and is indeed a journey, not only in the geographical sense of the word, but also through the compositional idioms of significant composers of the 20th and 21st century who were inspired by the unique timbre of the double bass.
Children's songs by Mikis Theodorakis
Miki Theodorakis' songs for children were the first the composer wrote, between 1937 and 1945. As he says, most of them were written "in the freezing chill of History—the ordeal of the 1940s—in my early teens". Triantafyllos Batargias has selected a number of these songs, transcribing and arranging them for the Chronos Ensemble, classical guitar, two female voices and a children's choir.
Literature and Music
Pierre Beaumarchais' theatrical play "the Barber of Seville" or "the Useless Precaution", Nikos Kazantzaki's novel "Alexis Zorbas" and William Shakespeare's "Midnight Summer Dream" are masterpieces of the world's literature that had inspired equally astonishing music to great composers. These musical pages, full of vivacity, humor, lyrism, passion and dancing ambience, are brought to the audience of Piraeus by Lisa Xanthopoulou, conductor and by Stathis Karapanos, flutist.
Opera soiree
As the celebration of the New Year ends, we insist on extending a bit more the ambiance. And the best way to do so is to visit some of the immortal, popular melodies of opera and operetta, as they are interpreted by three active opera singers under the baton of the rising conductor, Romanos Papazoglou.
Schubert Trio
Schubert's second trio, one of the composer's last and most mature works, somehow manages to elongate time both musically and experientially. The music unfolds as a long stroll down paths both expected and unexpected in what is a transformational and ever-changing journey.
Festival Promusica
The Athens State Orchestra, under the direction of the Rhodian conductor, Aléxandros Velonis, together with the internationally acclaimed soloist Nadine Weissmann, participates in a moving program inspired by courtly love, the history and the spirit of the island of Rhodos.
Festival Promusica
The Athens State Orchestra, under the direction of the Rhodian conductor, Aléxandros Velonis, together with the internationally acclaimed soloist Nadine Weissmann, participates in a moving program inspired by courtly love, the history and the spirit of the island of Rhodos.