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
«¡Espana!» Cycle (V)
A cycle entitled “¡España!” could hardly fail to include Chabrier’s celebrated work of the same name. Danae Kara performs a virtuosic transcription for piano and orchestra of Albeniz’s celebrated Spanish Rhapsody, while Michael Economou conducts the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin’s inventive and spectacular Carmen Suite in a festive conclusion to the cycle.
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Side by Side, Young Creators and Recreators cycle (III)
Four hand-picked graduates and final-year students from the Ionian University Symphony Orchestra—a composer, a performer and two conductors—join forces with the Athens State Orchestra. Sitting side by side, the musicians share music stands as well as the joy of performing Mussorgsky’s much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition under the baton of the exceptional Miltos Logiadis.
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Easter Concert 2013
It is in a spirit of devotion that the Athens State Orchestra presents Miki Theodorakis’ great Requiem conducted by Myron Michailidis. A profoundly mature and expressive work, the requiem is based on dramatic religious texts by Saint John Damascene and marshals powerful instrumental and vocal forces to provide a profound musical meditation on human mortality.
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Young Creators and Recreators cycle (II)
This eagerly-awaited concert features a symphonic composition by Lina Tonia and the young pianist, Grigoris Ioannou, playing Mozart’s finest piano concerto. Nikos Athinaios conducts Sibelius’ Second Symphony, a magic sound journey through the grey landscapes of the North and a nation’s dream of independence.
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders