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2022 07 04 Athens Festival

The Athens Epidaurus Festival and Maria Farantouri invite Festival audiences to a magical evening in memory of the late Mikis Theodorakis as a tribute to his invaluable legacy. Farantouri is joined by brilliant baritone Tassis Christoyannis under the baton of renowned conductor Miltos Logiadis.

In the first part, Farantouri will perform pieces from the iconic Canto General, a poem by Pablo Neruda, which was performed for the very first time by Farantouri and Petros Pandis, and has been praised by audiences at the greatest theatre venues around the globe. At the Roman Odeon, we will rediscover it in its original arrangement for a musical ensemble of 15 performers and two choirs (the ERT National Choir and the City of Athens Choir). In the second part, Maria Farantouri and Tassis Christoyannis, always under the baton of Miltos Logiadis, will perform seminal songs that have left a profound mark on half a century of Greek musical history, orchestrated by pianist Achilleas Wastor.

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2022 07 18 Athens Festival

The year 2022 marks the 80^th anniversary since the founding of the Athens State Orchestra, the oldest Greek symphonic ensemble. In the context of this celebration, the Orchestra pays tribute to the late and great Manos Hadjidakis, presenting two of his most famous works. In addition to the great value of Hadjidakis’ symphonic work that left its mark on post-WWII music, it bears mentioning that the composer had close ties with the Athens State Orchestra, having served as its director in the period 1976-1982.

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2022 07 02 Athens Festival

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.

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Imagination discipline - Saint-Saëns Year

In his first collaboration with the Athens State Orchestra, the Belarusian conductor Vyacheslav Volich, chief conductor of the Odessa National Opera, conducts Camille Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony, getting underway a wide-ranging tribute to the great French composer in the centenary of his death. The concert begins with a new symphonic work by the prominent composer Dimitrios Skyllas which was inspired by the Dance of Zalongo, and continues with the great piano virtuoso Kyprianos Katsaris performing two dazzling, and spectacularly difficult, works by Franz Liszt.

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