Mahler Cycle VIII
Continuing our journey through the music of the beloved Austrian symphonist, Gustav Mahler, we reach his towering Second Symphony. Its sensitive music works both as an agonized depiction of earthly tensions both within us and in the world, and as an expression of an ardent desire to access the deeper, metaphysical essence of existence. For Mahler, over and above its religious meanings, the Resurrection reveals itself primarily as the experience of an all-consuming Love...
Skalkottas and his contemporaries II
Nikos Skalkottas' celebrated Greek Dances and Dimitris Mitropoulos' revolutionary and angular Concerto Grosso bookend one of the most impressive violin concertos of recent years, which was composed by the well-known American composer of Greek descent, George Tsontakis. The solo part will be interpreted by the distinguished violinist Antonis Sousamoglou, while the orchestra will be conducted by the multifaceted maestro and academic, Leon Botstein, making his Athens State Orchestra debut.
Canadian Brass meets Athens State Orchestra
The concerts of the famed Canadian Brass quintet, which has been at the very summit of the international music scene for four decades now, are one of the key musical events of the year! Renowned for the vast breadth of their repertoire and their ability to combine uncompromising artistic quality with commercial appeal, the ensemble will treat our audience to a multifaceted programme which highlights the burnished sheen and expressiveness of the brass sound in all its glory.
Charles Wesley & Felice Giardini
: Come Thou almighty KingVarious Composers - arr. Howard Cable: Sweet Songs of Christmas
George Ratcliffe Woodward - arr. Howard Cable: Ding Dong Merrily on High
Traditional arr. Howard Cable: Twelve days of Christmas
Canadian Brass meets Athens State Orchestra:
Jeff Tyzik: New York Cityscapes (European premiere)
Traffic Jammin' (Time Square Day & Night)
Tango 1932 (103rd & Riverside)
African Dance (Wall Street & East River ca. 1709)
Tarantella (Mulberry Street)
Tribute to Beatles arr. Chris Dedrick
P. McCartney: Blackbird
Lennon/ P. McCartney: Come Together
New Year’s Gala 2018
The talented young soprano (and recipient of the most recent Maria Callas scholarship) Vasia Alati joins forces with the acclaimed baritone Tassis Christoyannis under the dynamic direction of the internationally celebrated maestro, Giorgos Petrou, to bring an especially joyous tone to the New Year celebrations with melodies from operas and operettas that have delighted generations.
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
(1792–1868)
GAETANO DONIZETTI
(1797–1848)
GIUSEPPE VERDI
(1813–1901)
JOHANN STRAUSS
(1825–1899)
FRANZ LEHAR
(1870–1948)
Christmas concert in the Municipality of Vari, Voula, Voulagmeni
Our Orchestra will perform samples of its repertoire to lovers of symphonic music under the baton of the rising star Pantelis Kogiamis. Needless to say, the concert is very much in the spirit of Christmas.
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.