Musical promenades at the Museums V
Zarzuelas, Spanish music and songs. Ines Zikou, the well known mezzo soprano sings some of the most charming creations of the Spanish music, in collaboration with the Metallon Quintet, an ensemble created by eminent musicians of the brass and percussion families of the Athens State Orchestra.
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Agustín Lara (1897-1970)
Metallon - Brass and Percussion Quintet of the Athens State Orchestra:
Panagiotis Kesaris, trumpet
Giannis Karabetsos, trumpet
Konstantinos Siskos, horn
Konstantinos Avgerinos, trombone
Giorgos Rarakos, tuba
Spyros Lambouras, percussion
Ines Zikou, mezzo soprano
Celebrating Music in the Garden!
For this very special day of the year, the European Music day, in June 21st, and in one of the most convenient for this season places of Athens, the Gardens of Megaron - the Athens Concert Hall, the Athens State Orchestra prepared a programme expressing the joyful message of the day.
Celebrating music in Petroupoli
A precursory concert for the European Music celebration (21th of June), but also a big concert by itself, is held by the Athens State Orchestra together with the 4th high school of Petroupoli; our friendship with this school started two years ago, within our educational programm "Right to Music".
At the threshold of the 20th century III
Mahler said that a Symphony is like the world: it must contain everything. And this statement finds a perfect example in his Fifth Symphony, a piece of an immense beauty in which coexist the passion of love with the tragedy of death, the rationalism with a schizophrenic imagination, the whisper with a triumphing voice.
Free introductory speech for ticket holders
We and the world VΙΙΙ
By listening to Shostakovich first symphony, it is hard to imagine that such a fullness of action and esthetic precision can be found in a 19-year old person's work! Ekhard Wycik, the internationally famous conductor from Germany interprets it, while in the second part of the programme, Vasilis Varvaresos, one of the most eminent pianists of his generation interprets Tchaikovski's concerto.
Free introductory speech for ticket holders
Musical promenades at the Museums IV
The same instrument combination takes completely different dimensions, as it interprets pieces by VonWeber, Villa-Lobos and Kapustin.
Once upon a time (1)
Implementing an idea it presented for the first time in 2012, the HELLENIC PROJECT has set out to develop a repertoire which draws on Greek tradition for its inspiration and which seeks to educate as well as entertain. This year, two composer have undertaken to create a pair of musical fairy tales for narrator and symphony orchestra which will bring two traditional Greek folk tales to life. The works are to be performed by the Athens State Orchestra under the baton of a rising star, George Balatsinos.
Kostas Fasoulas, fairy tale text
Elias Karellas, narrator
Kostas Rosopoulos, composition
George Koropoulis, fairy tale text
Manolis Mavromatakis, narrator
Rallou Vogiatzi, concept
Dimitris Papadimitriou, artistic oversight
Rallou Vogiatzi, THE HELLENIC PROJECT
Musical promenades at the Museums ΙΙΙ
Violin and piano always offer a special pleasure to their audience and have inspired pieces of a unique beauty and quality to many major composers.
Musical promenades at the Museums II
Schubert and Brahms are distinguished by their music, full of unpredictable turns, emotions, deep thoughts and dreams.
One melody... one thousand pictures!
Emblematic music, all of them started glowing together with great interpretation and famous cinematographic scenes and later have been following an autonomous 'solo' career: This is the programme chosen by five great musicians for their concert 'One melody... one thousand pictures!'.