22nd Music Festival of Nafplio - 21 to 30 June 2013
The 22nd Music Festival will take place from 21 June to 30 June 2013 at Nafplio.
Programme
All concert starts at 21:00. Entry for the public starts at 20:30.
Friday 21 June, Fougaro, 21:00
Odyseias music & 11 music poems by C.P.Cavafis
This year’s Nafplion Festival open its doors with a tribute to the Greek poetic creation – from ancient until modern times. The composer of the music for the opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympics in 2004, Theodore Economou, performs his own compositions in the presence of one of the great ladies of Greek theater: Lydia Koniordou. The first part of the concert consists of the original music for the staged act “Odyssey”, a play directed by the renown Robert Wilson, with Lydia Koniordou performing all the songs. The second part will be the first ever presentation of a new composition: a musical universe wherein spring -set to music by Econoomou- 11 poems by C. P. Cavafy thus bringing the audience closer to the great poet, even 150 years after his birth.
Saturday 22 June, Arvanitias Square, 21:00
Ballet of National Luric Scene
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Travel
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras no. 4
Sergei Prokopiev: Romeo & Juliet
Johann Strauss: Blue Dounavis
Break
Johann Strauss: Everybody dances waltz
Gustav Mahler: Adagietto
Laurie Anderson - Brian Eno
Maurice Ravel: Bolero
Choreography: Renato Ganella
With the first dancers, the soloists, the principals and the Corps de Βallet of the Greek National Opera.
The Ballet of the Greek National Opera travels to Nafplion for this year’s opening performance of its summer tour. The soloists, the principal dancers and the corps de ballet of GNO invite the audience at the wide and welcoming Arvanitia square for an evening of voyages through totally different places and times.
Sunday 23 June, Agiow Georgios Square, 21:00
NAFPLION FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Sextet in D major, Op. 110
Break
George Gerswin: "Suite from PORGY AND BESS "
The Nafplion Festival Ensemble will be presenting the particularly demanding Mendelssohn’s sextet as well as the orchestral suite from the opera “Porgy and Bess” – an artistic triumph, both by musical and human standards, full of anti-racist meanings, composed by George Gershwin. The acclaimed violinist and artistic director of the Festival of Cyclades Yannos Margaziotis, the principle double bass of the Greek National Opera Vassilis Papavasileiou, the principle violinist of the Athens State Orchestra Appolon Grammatikopoulos, encounter the holder of the “Richard Wagner” scholarship Ai Motohashi, the soloist of the Odense Symphonic Orchestra Rafael Altino, the cellist of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Jaani Helander and a prominent figure of the clarinet, the world renowned Frenchman Michel Lethiec -a night where the collaboration of Greek and foreign musicians is impressive at the least.
Yiannos Margaziotis, violin
Apollon Grammatikopoulos, violin
Rafael Altino, viola
Jaani Helander, cello
Vassilis Papavasileiou, contrabass
Ai Motohashi, piano
Michel Lethiec, clarinet
Monday 24 June, Vouleytiko, 21:00
Vasilis Varvaresos, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata no.12 in F Major, K. 332
Frédéric Chopin: Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58
Break
Jean Philippe Rameau: Le rappel des oiseaux
François d'Agincourt: Les Danses Provençales
Claude Balbastre: La Beleaud
Claude Debussy: Estampes - a) Pagodes b) La Soirée dans Grenade c)Jardins sous la pluie
Camille Saint - Saens/F. Liszt/ V.Horowitz: Danse Macabre
Born in 1983, Vassilis Varvaressos was the youngest winner of the Young Concert Artists competition in New York at the age of 14. That event was only the beginning of many distinctions for him and his career that reached its peak in 2012: a recital in Carnegie Hall, so successful that the U.S.A president himself invited him to play at the White House. The acclaimed Greek soloist will give the first concert of the week in the historic building of Vouleftiko with a program that balances between baroque, classical, romantic and impressionistic sounds. Presenting the audience with an experience as described in the New York Concert Review: “Varvaresos not only has a natural yet finely honed technique, it springs as one with the wide scope of profound musicianship”.
Tuesday 25 June, Vouleytiko, 21:00
Aggeliki Kathariou, mezzo soprano
Nikos Athinaios, piano
Kurt Weill: "Tango Habanera", "Je ne t'aime pas". "Le roi d' Aquitaine"
Igor Stravinsky: Tango for piano
Kurt Weill: "J' attends un navire". "Ach, bedenken Sie, Herr Jack O' Brien"
Break
Xavier Montsalvatge: "Cuba dentro de un piano", "Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito" Xavier Montsalvatge: "Canto negro".
Νίκος Αθηναίος: Habanera (solo piano)
Manuel De Falla: 1. El paño moruno 2. Jota 3. Nana 4.Polo (from the play Siete Canciones populares Españolas)
Angelica Cathariou who was performed at some of the most prestigious concert venues and festivals -like the Carnegie Hall and Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, meets one of the most famous Greek conductors. This time not conducting -as usually- but being the pianist of the concert. Nikos Athinaios, the first ever artistic manager of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, after a great career both in Greece and especially abroad, has devoted himself to composing. A small sample of his work will be presented, among works by Weil, Stravinsky, Montsalvatge that will liven up memories of the 20th century through the voice of the distinguished mezzo.
Wednesday 26 June, Vouleytiko, 21:00
PAÏAN Piano Quartet
Matias Vestergård Hansen: Stele (2013)
Martin Lohse: Images Balancantes (2004)
Vagn Holmboe: Ballata op. 159 (1984)
Matias Vestergård Hansen: I Søvne (2013)
Break
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Quartet op. 44
Peter Andreas Nielsen, violin
Josefine Weber Hansen, viola
Josefine Opsahl, cello
Matias Vestergård Hansen, piano
The rapidly rising ensemble from Denmark owes its name to the ancient Greek word ” paean”, signifying a song of triumph or thanksgiving, close to the concept of the modern march. Approaching music from many different angles -one of them being psychology- and inspired both by the tradition of music and the latest scientific developments, they are able to create an explosive dynamic through their elective selection of totally different works and their performances. The quartet PAIAN aspire to establish hidden gems of contemporary composition to the audience while at the same time intends not to forget the classic repertoire -the basis for all today’s music.
Thursday 27 June, Vouleytiko, 21:00
Christine Holzwarth, soprano
Agata Lukasiewicz, piano
Franz Schubert: Heidenröslein, Die Forelle, An den Mond, Nähe des Geliebten
Franz Schubert/ F. Liszt: Serenade
Johannes Brahms: Das Mädchen spricht, Geheimnis, Wiegenlied, Sandmännchen, Dein blaues Auge
Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo op. 119 nr. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Aria of Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Aria of Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Domenico Scarlatti : 2 Sonatas in d minor (K.1, K.32)
Break
Leonard Bernstein: I hate music
Manos Xatzidakis
Theofrastos Sakellaridis
Fred Raymond: Juliska from Budapest (Maske in Blau),
Franz Lehár: Chanson of Juliette (Graf von Luxemburg),
Paul Abraham: Mama from Yokohama (Viktoria and her Husar),
Johann Straus II: Adele (Die Fledermaus - the Bat )
Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Viennis Songs: Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume, Wien wird schön erst bei Nacht
Two members of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation of Vienna, a soprano from Austria and a pianist from Poland, two rising stars of the pan-European stardom meet under the roof of the Vouleftiko building. The promising soprano Christine Holzwart and the award winning – 1st price at the 5th International J. Brahms competition in Acqui Terne Italy, among many others- Agata Lukasiewicz join musical forces for a night full of short compositions, songs both of the classical repertoire and of the playfulness of the operetta and last but not least: a surprise for the audience in the form of the music of Manos Hatzidakis.
Friday 28 June, Palamidi, 21:00
SUONO
Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova
Nino Rota: Huit et demi
Harold Alen: Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein: I Feel Pretty
Claude François: My Way
Jose Fernandez: Guantanamera
Ástor Piazzolla: Libertango
Carlos Garde: Por una Cabeza
Manos Xatzidakis: Choice
Break
Lalo Schifrin: Mission Impossible
Nicola Piovani: La Vita è Bella
John Williams: Superman
Henry Mancini: Moon River
Henry Mancini: Peter Gunn
John Barry: James Bond Theme
George Gershwin: Summertime
Manos Xatzidakis: Ilissos
Mimis Plessas: Choice
Yiannis Moraitis, trumpet
Dionysis Agalianos, trumpet
Spyros Kakos, horn
Panagiotis Zafeiropoulos, trombone
Yiannis Boikos, tuba
The musicians of the SUONO brass ensemble, all of the distinguished in their fields and originating from symphony orchestras, found each other at their deep need for a high level of music. After a long series of many concerts around Greece -and after rave reviews for their performances- the members of the ensemble have set a basic goal: to familiarize the public with the sound of brass. At the imposing castle of Palamidi, the night will be full of their distinctive sound and of a cinematic atmosphere created by famous soundtracks thus evoking important (music) moments of the art of cinema.
Saturday 29 June, Palamidi, 21:00
Dalia Dedinskaite, violin
Gleb Pysniak, cello
Anatolijus Šenderovas: 2 Dialogues for violin and cello
Zoltán Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7
Break
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne (Partita no. 2 for solo violin)
Giovanni Sollima: La Folia
George Friedrich Händel/ J. Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and cello in G-moll
Sunday 30 June, Vouleytiko, 20:00
The anvient Symposion
EURIPIDES, Orestes (408 BC), strophe (Vienna Papyrus G2315, end of the 3rd century BC)
TIMOTHEUS OF MILETUS, Finale of the Dithyramb The Mad Ajax, c. 360 BC (Berlin Papyrus 6870, c. 160 AD)
ANONYMOUS, Instrumental duet from Contrapollinopolis (Berlin Papyrus 6870, c. 160 AD)
ANONYMOUS, known as Bellermann’s Anonymous, Instrumental solo, 4th century AD, played first on the aulos, and then on the kithara (medieval manuscripts)
ANONYMOUS, Magical codex (Louvre Codex AF 11357, late Roman period)
LIMENIUS, SON OF THOINUS, Paean and Prosodion to Apollo (128 BC, inscription on the Athenian Treasury at Delphi)
