Concert at the Athens Festival 2013
In this, the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the great Italian composer’s vast and superb operatic oeuvre is being honoured all over the world with the splendour it deserves. The Athens State Orchestra will play its part in the celebrations by performing the celebrated and emotionally-laden Requiem which Verdi wrote in memory of the eminent Italian man of letters, Alessandro Manzoni. Part of this year’s Athens Festival, the performance, for which the Orchestra will be joined by distinguished singers and no fewer than three choruses, will be conducted by Vassilis Christopoulos.
Concert at Kalavryta
The Athens State Orchestra’s summer concert tour begins this year in Kalavryta. The programme begins with a symphonic landmark of post-war Modernism: Phoenix Music by Greece’s great avant-garde composer, Jani Christou. This will be followed by two masterpieces by Beethoven: the Third Piano Concerto, with Thanasis Apostolopoulos at the keyboard, and the spellbinding Seventh Symphony, which Wagner famously described as the “apotheosis of the dance”.
Side by Side
19:45
Pre-concert talk, free for ticket holders
Christmas Concert at Lamia 2012
A Christmas Carol, as we all knew it as children from Charles Dickens’ timeless masterpiece, springs back to life to touch our hearts again in this lively and vividly programmatic music by the German composer, Henrik Albrecht. This year’s musical celebration of Christmas also features the timeless melodies of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite conducted by Andreas Tselikas.
Piano Quartets by Mozart and Brahms
Tania Charitopoulou, Viola
Isidoros Sideris, Cello
Thanassis Trikoupis, Piano