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Music day – 2024

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:29:12 +0000

The Athens State Orchestra welcomes the Music Day at the Gardens of Megaron with music created by Bernstein, Born, Strauss and Grothe. Panagiota Polyzoidou and Rafailia Kontou are the soloists of the programme. Ilias Voudouris conducts the orchestra.

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Pénélope, opera in three acts, concertante

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:28:55 +0000

Mysterious, still transparent, like a child’s eyes: these are the words that philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch uses to describe the music by Gabriel Fauré. In his mature period, the composer, fascinated by Greek Antiquity, draws inspiration from “Odyssey” for his musical drama “Pénélope”, based on a libretto by René Fauchois. The unwavering loyalty of Pénélope, the return of Odysseus to his homeland and the merry conclusion of the myth after the slaughter of the suitors weave an enticing musical universe, echoing the influence by both Gluck and Wagner.
“Pénélope” is the composer’s only opera and is presented for the first time in Greece: the Athens State Orchestra, within the frame of its collaboration with Olympia, and a brilliant cast of French and Greek singers breathe life to the epic heroes, rendering the subtle psychological nuances of the narrative. Among the artists, Olympia welcomes back conductor Pierre Dumoussaud and soprano Catherine Hunold, after their acclaimed performances in the opera “Soeur Béatrice” by Dimitri Mitropoulos.

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The Greek piano concerto

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:28:53 +0000

Throughout its long career, the Athens State Orchestra has always served Greek music faithfully, in recognition of its value and its interest. This is what it sets out to do in this concert, too, which is dedicated to the Greek piano concerto. A genre little known, with very few exceptions, but certainly well worth a closer acquaintance, whether the concerto showcases the modernism of Nikos Skalkottas or the multifaceted collaboration between piano and orchestra in the work of Charis Vrontos, whose concerto’s première performance this is. The programme peaks with Beethoven’s symphony no. 1.

19:30, free introductory speech

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Concert in Achaia Clauss Winery, Patras

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:27:25 +0000

The Athens State Orchestra presents Manuel Ponce’s Concerto del Sur and George Gershwin’s Concerto for piano and orchestra in premiere in Greece at the Achaia Clauss Winery, Patras.

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Concert in Akrocorinthos

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:27:09 +0000

The Athens State Orchestra presents Manuel Ponce’s Concerto del Sur and George Gershwin’s Concerto for piano and orchestra in premiere in Greece.

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Athens Festival

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:24:16 +0000

Thanks to an incendiary combination of talent, virtuosity, expressiveness and brilliance, the piano superstar Alexei Volodin is graced with the ability to captivate audiences wherever he performs, tackling the most demanding works in the piano repertoire and offering up genuinely passionate and inspired interpretations. This year, we welcome him to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus to perform what is perhaps the most popular piano concerto of all time: Tchaikovsky’s First. Having accompanied him on this journey into the Romantic composer’s melodic universe, the Athens State Orchestra and renowned conductor Lukas Karytinos will then transform themselves into… soloists for Bella Bartók’s celebrated Concerto for Orchestra. By far the most impressive and beloved symphonic work by the ground-breaking Hungarian composer, this rhythmic work exudes a near frenzied vitality that possesses audiences with the desire to dance! The concert promises to be enormously exciting and to raise the musical temperature with works that literally take one’s breath away!

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Athens Festival

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:24:14 +0000

Outstanding internationally renowned opera singers join forces with the ASO under the experienced baton of the renowned Estonian-born American conductor Neeme Järvi to perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s magnificent Ninth Symphony for the audience in the Herodes Atticus theatre. A supreme achievement of the human spirit, this immortal symphonic masterpiece changed the course of symphonic music more than any other. Still more importantly, as an incomparable testament to beauty and truth, it is the clearest and most moving musical expression of humanism, and a work that symbolizes Man’s need to hope and embrace the highest ideals of freedom, dignity and brotherhood of nations.

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Janoska style goes symphonic

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:24:13 +0000

Since the release on Deutsche Grammophon of the Janoska Ensemble’s debut album “Janoska Style”, that same Janoska Style has evolved into a brand and a guarantee of quality.
The success of the ensemble is the proof. Since their first Album presentation in 2016, these creative musicians have won the hearts of thousands of enthusiastic fans on four continents with their unique talent for combining different musical genres.

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The Athens State Orchestra in motion Ι – Mozart the Magic Flute

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:24:11 +0000

The timeless appeal of Mozart’s Magic Flute has a lot to do, of course, with the universally acknowledged perfection and expressiveness of his music, but it’s also because Emanuel Schikaneder’s libretto expresses the ever-topical humanist ideals of the European Enlightenment and of Freemasonry in an elegant and vividly symbolic way. Under the baton of the dynamic Katia Molfesi, a cast of fine Greek lyric actors recreate Mozart’s operatic swansong in a semi-staged version, adding a beautifully spiritual, fairy tale tone to this year’s Christmas celebrations.

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An East – West Wind 65 years of diplomatic relations between Greece and Thailand

kostas_know — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:23:54 +0000

Athenian audiences know the Belgian conductor Michel Tilkin and his work very well, thanks to his highly successful collaborations with the Athens State Orchestra in recent years. As a distinguished interpreter of the Greek repertoire, he will leading a performance of Georgios Lambelet’s celebrated Feast and a recent work by Lefteris Veniadis. Theodore Kerkezos and Theodosia Ntokou, both soloists who have achieved considerable international acclaim, will bring this season to a spectacular close with performances of two outstanding concerti, for saxophone and piano respectively.

19:30 Free introductory talk by Haralambos Gogios for ticket holders

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