Musica Aeterna
Works by Kancheli and Tchaikovsky
The Musica Aeterna Ensemble and the New Siberian Singers Chamber Choir, both founded in Novosibirsk by the thirty-five-year-old Teodor Currentzis (whom the Russian press proclaimed “Conductor of the Year” in 2005), will be making their Athenian début with a programme that brims with high emotion. Tchaikovsky’s last symphony, one of the best known and most loved works of the Romantic period, needs little introduction; the emotional intensity of the piece foreshadowed the work of Mahler. Of equal expressive power is Styx by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, one of the most famous (and acclaimed) pieces of the last decade. The viola part, played by the celebrated soloist Yuri Bashmet (for whom the work was written), acts as an intermediary between the orchestra and the choir, and symbolically between the worlds of the dead and the living.
Giya Kancheli, Styx, for viola, mixed choir and orchestra
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique”
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Duration 1 hour and 20 minutes with one interval.
Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall (Friends of Music Hall)
- 27/06/2007 at 21:00
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