DISNEY IN CONCERT - II (1)
If you usually associate Christmas with the cheery figure of Santa Claus and scenes of family togetherness around a fairy-lit Christmas tree, then get ready for something completely different this year: horrifying skeletons and gloomy monsters of every conceivable type are brought to life to the sound of a live orchestra are keen to add their own nightmarish note to the Christmas festivities! But will they succeed?
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DISNEY IN CONCERT - I
If you usually associate Christmas with the cheery figure of Santa Claus and scenes of family togetherness around a fairy-lit Christmas tree, then get ready for something completely different this year: horrifying skeletons and gloomy monsters of every conceivable type are brought to life to the sound of a live orchestra are keen to add their own nightmarish note to the Christmas festivities! But will they succeed?
Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts.
© All rights reserved.
Musical promenades at the Museums - Death and the Maiden
The Quintarco string ensemble has programmed a concert that will surely delight lovers of the classical chamber music repertoire. Our Orchestra's distinguished musicians chose one of the most exciting string quartets of all time, in a Mahler's transcription for string quintets, for the evening's centrepiece, the work known as "Death and the maiden" after the Schubert lied whose melody forms the basis of its slow movement; Mahler's transcription of Death and the maiden will be presented for the first time in Greece in this concert.
War and Peace III
The internationally acclaimed pianist Giorgos-Emmanuel Lazaridis performs Mozart's dramatic Concerto in C minor. After the success of his appearance last season, Frank Beermann returns to the podium to conduct Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, a work inextricably bound up with the harsh realities of siege of the Soviet city during World War Two. The Symphony employs a disarming musical realism to convey the horrors of war, but also to send out a clear message of peace, freedom and dignity.
Opera Gala with Liudmyla Monastyrska and Dimitris Platanias
A gala in celebration of Verdi and Verismo! Liudmyla Monastyrska has ‘deep knowledge of Verdi’s artistic development,’ and has a formidable spinto voice, with an incredibly rich timbre, according to international press. A favourite Rigoletto on the international stage, Dimitris Platanias performs equally often Macbeth, Nabucco, and Tonio in major opera houses. A joint appearance by them in a rich and varied programme promises an unforgettable opera experience.
The Age of maturity
The great Romantic works have a way of remaining ever-relevant as honest and heart-felt manifestations of Man's deepest emotions and visions. It will therefore be an emotional experience to revisit two magnificent symphonic works of late German Romanticism through the talent of the rising soloist Arsenis Selalmazidis and of the eminent principal of the Athens State Orchestra, Asterios Pouftis, dynamically conducted by Stefanos Tsialis.
Musical Promenades at the Museums - French perfume
Few months after the astonishing interpretation of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Athens State Orchestra returns to this historical place with a concert dedicated to the French musical heritage. This time, the Athens State Orchestra's Woodwind Quintet interprets famous and pioneering compositions: A programme where Bizet’s Carmen comes after Debussy’s “Petite Suite” and where Bozza’s Scherzo, Ibert’s Three Short Pieces and Poulenc’s “Sextet for wind quintet and piano” follow, creating a musical bridge which will transport us in Paris’s charming quartiers by the Seine.
Mahler Cycle VII
For the fourth consecutive year, the Athens State Orchestra will continue to work towards its ambitious and supremely timely goal of performing every Gustav Mahler symphony. In this outing, the great Austrian composer's colossal Seventh Symphony, a long and in every sense adventurous musical journey through the Night, will unfold under the 'wise' baton of the celebrated Slovenian conductor Uroš Lajovic, on its way to its 'sunlit' metaphysical finale.
Musical promenades at the museums - The three Bs
As in previous years, important Athens museums will be hosting chamber music concerts featuring Athens State Orchestra ensembles. Fittingly, the first stop on this musical and museological venture will be the Acropolis Museum, where the dynamic and experienced Athens String Quartet will join forces with the distinguished clarinettist Spyros Mourikis to perform works by classical music's "Holy Trinity": Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
European Music Day - 2018
For the past 36 years, European Music Day has united millions of people through thousands of events in over 700 cities. The Athens State Orchestra, for this year's celebration, chooses to promote Nikos Skalkottas,, presenting works of the emblematic composer for the Greek but also for the international musical vanguard in the Athens Concert Hall gardens, conducted by the Orchestra's artistic Director, Stefanos Tsialis.