Human voices
Works by Diego Ortiz, Santiago de Murcia, Francesco Corbetta, Tobias Hume, Giuseppe Jacchini, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Johan Schenk, Robert de Visée, Marin Marais.
Nikos Panagiotidis, theorbo / baroque guitar
Death and the maiden
Christophoros Karathanassis, violin
Manos Gouvelis, viola
Asterios Pouftis, cello
Double Reeds
Yiannis Oikonomou, oboe
Christina Pantelidou, English horn
Alexandros Oikonomou, bassoon
Markellos Chryssicos, harpsichord
Christmas Concert of “METALLON” brass quintet
Works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Leroy Anderson, Irving Berlin, Christmas hymns and traditional Christmas carols, in special arrangements for brass quintet.
Panagiotis Kesaris, trumpet
Giannis Karabetsos, trumpet
Kostas Avgerinos, trombone
Kostas Siskos, horn
Georgios Rarakos, tuba
On both sides of the Channel in the first half of the 20th century
Four outstanding soloists join forces with the Athens String Quartet to play works by Maurice Ravel, Sir Arnold Bax and Jean Françaix—composers all who lived and worked on one side or other of the English Channel during the first half of the Twentieth century—on a rare combination of instruments. The common thread running through the programme is the wide-ranging musical affinities revealed in the works—affinities which should come as no surprise given that the leading exponent of musical impressionism, Maurice Ravel, influenced both Bax’s British version of impressionism and the style of the young Françaix—in whom Ravel was the first to spot “that most fruitful gift an artist can possess: curiosity”.
Christina Pantelidou, oboe – cor anglais
Kostas Tzekos, clarinet
Gogo Xagara, harp
Athens String Quartet:
Apollon Grammatikopoulos, violin
Panayiotis Tziotis, violin
Paris Anastasiadis, viola
Isidoros Sideris, cello
Viola Power!
A concert for the… “restitution of the historical truth” by 10 viola players of the Athens State Orchestra in works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georges Bizet, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kurt Weill, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Hindemith etc.