Megaron Athens Concert Hall: Easter concert featuring musical masterpieces by the Athens State Orchestra

A nighttime that brings unneurotic spiritual sentiment with quality anguish successful the look of the inevitable, done 2 masterpieces of the 20th and 19th centuries, is the established Easter Concert to beryllium performed by the Athens State Orchestra connected the evening of Holy Wednesday, April 8, astatine the Megaron Athens Concert Hall.

Serving arsenic a “prelude” is Schubert’s celebrated Unfinished Symphony, an evergreen illustration of expressive simplicity, axenic spirituality, and ceremonial perfection. It is followed by Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, a enactment that uniquely combines the timeless anxiousness surrounding decease with fervent anti-war messages. The programme concludes with Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum, wherever the composer’s heavy metaphysical reflection gives emergence to imposing yet profoundly affectional music—sound that evokes reverence and awe, overmuch similar that inspired by Europe’s expansive cathedrals.

Four distinguished opera singers with notable planetary careers—Sofia Kyanidou, Mary-Ellen Nezi, Mario Zeffiri, and Petros Magoulas—join 2 choirs and the Athens State Orchestra nether the philharmonic absorption of conductor Konstantinos Terzakis.