France – Greece, a musical promenade
Transcriptions for brass quintet of renown pieces by Charles Gounod, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, Michel Legrand, Spyridon Samaras, Dionysios Lavrangas etc.
Brass Quintet “Metallon”
Panayiotis Kaisaris, Trumpet
Yiannis Karampetsos, Trumpet
Kostas Siskos, Horn
Kostas Avgerinos, Trombone
Yiorgos Rarakos, Tuba
French Music Fortnight (III) – “Concert with works for bassoon and piano”
Titos Gouvelis, Piano
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Love and Myth
Eleni Dafeka, Piano
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Concert of the "Aeolos" Wind Quintet
Yiannis Tselikas, oboe
Angelos Politis, clarinet
Yiorgos Farougias, bassoon
Spyros Kakos, horn
Concert of the Athens String Quartet
Panayiotis Tziotis, Violin
Paris Anastasiadis, Viola
Isidoros Sideris, Cello
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
String Trio Concert
Dimitris Angelidis, Violin
Iris Louka, Viola
Georgia Kyprou, Cello
Family Concert (III)
Who said that the animal kingdom’s more likeable representatives couldn’t serve as a source of musical inspiration? Sergei Prokofiev tells the tale of Peter and the Wolf and takes the opportunity to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra, while Saint-Saens brings his humour to bear on a musical Carnival of the Animals, with a procession of chickens, tortoises, elephants, kangaroos, a gorgeous swan and even... pianists !
Family Concert (II) 2013
Just two days on from the gala performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco, the exceptional cast assembles once again to perform some of the best-known and best-loved sections from the Italian composer’s first great work for an audience of parents and children. Their aim: to initiate young and old alike into the magical world of opera simply and sincerely.
Introduction to the opera with excerpts from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi (In concertante form).
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Family Concert (I)
Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Seven gods of ancient Greek myth, seven planets in our solar system, transformed by Holst into a musical universe in which the oh-so-human characteristics of the gods are condensed. Bringing sound and vision together in wondrous unity, the concert promises parents and children a veritable feast for the senses.
Aris Servetalis
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Beethoven cycle (V)
The winter season ends with the last concert in the Beethoven cycle and two of the composer’s best-known symphonies: the Sixth, in which the composer turns his inner eye on Nature in search of the simplicity and purity of a pastoral life, and the stormy Seventh, a symphony of singular power which pulsates with an intoxicating dance-like rhythm.
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders