An American fan
An outstanding representative of the new generation of pianists and a distinguished conductor join forces with the Athens State Orchestra in a musical tour of the Americas. Together, they offer up an impressive programme of charming works by 20th-century composers from the US, Argentina and Mexico—music typified by intense dance rhythms, jazz harmonies and sensual melodies.
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A century since the birth of Henri Dutilleux
The fine French cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand appears with the Athens State Orchestra once again, performing the Concerto by Henri Dutilleux, a French composer who left an indelible mark on the music of the last century. Of course, Tchaikovsky marked the Romantic music of his century just as powerfully through charming, passionate works like his Fifth Symphony which have remained impervious to the passage of time.
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Bruckner’s Seventh
Bruckner’ Seventh Symphony was an instant triumph. The greatest success of the composer’s life, it remains his most popular symphonic work. Vassilis Christopoulos returns to the Athens State Orchestra podium once again to conduct the Italian virtuoso pianist Francesco Nicolosi in Mozart’s Twentieth—and, for many, his best—Piano Concerto.
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Dimitris Papadimitriou “Chronicle of an early autumn”
In an effort to create a repertoire of symphonic works, THE HELLENIC PROJECT and the well-known composer Dimitris Papadimitriou present a new work which will be performed by the Athens State Orchestra under the baton of the award-winning George Petrou.
Hymne à la Beauté, Charles Baudelaire
You who never arrived, Rainer Maria Rilke
Roses by the Window, Andreas Embirikos
Beethoven lives upstairs
Little Christoph meets the great Beethoven, and while he may not know what to make of the composer’s habits and general eccentricity, he gradually comes to understand and accept the greatness both of Beethoven the Man and of his music. An imaginative and humorous dramatization as well as a moving initiation for young music-lovers into the exciting world of the great German classicist!
Treasures known and unknown III
In a high-octane concert, the internationally-celebrated Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang takes on Britten’s Concerto, an epic work in every respect, while the conductor Stefanos Tsialis faces up to Beethoven’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, which Wagner famously described as the ‘apotheosis of the dance’. The evening will also give us the chance to enjoy a fine symphonic work by the great Romantic composer, Robert Schumann.
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Treasures known and unknown II
Sibelius’ magnificent Fifth Symphony along with Macbeth, a less well-known work by Richard Strauss, guarantee an evening of pleasure for lovers of a larger-than-life, glorious symphonic sound and epic musical journeys. Similarly, lovers of the classically pellucid and austere will have an opportunity to enjoy another example of Mozart’s unparalleled perfection and sensitivity.
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We and the world IV
The program for the first concert of the New Year is dominated by Schubert’s “Great” Symphony, a work as vast in terms of ideas and emotions as it is in length; there can be little doubt that it comprises a pinnacle of the symphonic repertoire. Before that, Titos Gouvelis performs the première of the explosive Second Concerto from the distinguished Greek composer, Iossif Valette.
We and the world I
This year’s thematic cycle “We and the world” spotlights important works by Greek composers alongside masterpieces of the international repertoire. In this concert, we move from the joyous atmosphere of a saint’s day celebration to a portentous viewing of the paintings in an exhibition. The distinguished violinist Linus Roth performs Prokofiev’s lyrical but acutely grotesque First Concerto under the baton of the well-known conductor, Karolos Trikolidis.
10 years on from the death of Odysseas Dimitriadis
Under the baton of its artistic director, Stefanos Tsialis, the Athens State Orchestra honours the memory of the great maestro—and its honorary conductor—Odysseas Dimitriadis with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s stirring evergreen, the Pathétique symphony. For this, the opening concert of the new season, the Orchestra joins forces with a rising star of the international music scene, the cellist Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas, in Lalo’s fiendishly demanding concerto