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33rd Nafplio Festival - June 29th to July 7th 2024

Δειλινό στο Ναύπλιο, sunset over Nafplio Greece

On Saturday, June 29th 2024, the curtain will rise on the 33rd Nafplio Festival, which has hosted some of the most brilliant groups and artists on the international classical scene and has been awarded the title of best festival by the Greek Music Critics Association. From June 29th to July 7th 2024, we will once again enjoy a musical feast in the most emblematic places of the beautiful city of Nafplio.

The Nafplio Festival, under the artistic direction of the internationally renowned pianist and Artistic Director of the Athens Concert Hall, Yannis Vakarelis, is an institution that, in its thirty-three years of continuous presence, has offered Greek and international audiences countless moments of great pleasure, excitement and joy, presenting a panorama of events in the most beautiful parts of the city: Agios Georgios' Square in front of the homonymous church, the iconic Bourtzi (after so many years), Syntagma Square, Square of Agios Spyridon...

Highlights
This year's 33rd edition of the Festival, in collaboration and with the support of the Municipality of Nafplio, includes events dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of democracy in Greece, such as the open discussion between the Greek journalist Mr. Giorgos Kouvaras and Mrs. Anna Diamantopoulou at the First Greek Parliament (the Vouleftiko) and the concert by Stefanos Korkolis and Sofia Manousaki, with songs by Mikis Theodorakis at the emblematic Bourtzi.
It will also host the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Athens in an evening of Spanish music with soloists Christoforos Petridis conducted by Andreas Tselikas, the Auner String Quartet from Austria and the Vyzehrad Trio from the Czech Republic in St. Spyridon Square. Spyridon Square, Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis and Katerina Polemi in an evening of poetry and jazz music in Agios Georgios' Square, Dimitris Soukaras and Nefeli Mousoura in solo performances for guitar and piano respectively, as well as Timotheos Petrin on cello and Alexia Mouza on piano.
In the Festival's parallel program, in collaboration with the University of Athens and under the auspices of the Holy Metropolis of Argolis, the choir "The Masters of Chant Art", under the direction of Achilleas Chaldaiakis in Vouleftiko, will take part.

Programme
All concerts start at 21:00. Admission for the public begins at 20:30.
As follows:

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Saturday, June 29th 2024Syntagma Square at 21:00
¡VIVA ESPAÑA! – II 
City of Athens Symphony Orchestra
Christoforos Petridis, violin
Conductor: Andreas Tselikas
French composers have always had a fondness for Spanish music. As part of this year’s tribute to works inspired by the captivating Spanish temperament, the Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Athens presents the Symphonie Espagnole, the celebrated virtuoso masterpiece by Édouard Lalo, which the composer dedicated to the legendary Spanish violin master Pablo de Sarasate. The Spanish dance element dominates the most popular Suite No. 1 from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, which his friend, Ernest Guiraud, arranged after the composer’s death.
Program
Édouard Lalo (1823-1892), Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 21
Allegro non troppo
Scherzando: Allegro molto
Intermezzo: Allegretto non troppo
Andante
Rondo: Allegro
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Suite No. 1 from the opera Carmen

Συμφωνική Ορχήστρα Αθηνών, City of Athens Symphony Orchestra

Christoforos Petridis
Born in Thessaloniki, in 2004. At the age of 16, he graduated as an exceptional talent from the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, receiving a Diploma with the highest honors and a Special Award, under the tutelage of Prof. Kostas Kampadais.
He won 14 first prizes in national and international competitions, grand prizes and honorary prizes in memory of famous Greek artists. He was honored with a full scholarship and today is pursuing his bachelor’s degree under the renowned violin soloist and teacher Prof. Kurt Nikkanen at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. In 2023, he made his debut at the Carnegie Hall and at Merkin Concert Hall in the USA. At the age of 12, he appeared as a soloist at the Glaserner Saal-Musikverein in Vienna, having won the Grand Prize and the Special Distinction “Best Beethoven Performance” at the International Competition “Grand Prize Virtuoso”.
He has performed as a soloist at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall at the age of 12, with the Thessaloniki Municipal Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 21), with the Athens State Orchestra and the Camerata Junior (P. Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen), with the Athens Municipal Symphony Orchestra (Sibelius, Violin Concerto), and with the Thessaloniki Municipal Symphony Orchestra (Wieniawski, Scherzo – Tarentelle). A landmark concert was his musical recital (and Podcast broadcast) at Megaron-the Athens Concert Hall in 2021, at the age of 16.
He has been praised by music critics for his sensitive and emotional interpretation as well as for his exceptional technical skills. He was selected for the 2022 International Violin Masterclass of Leonidas Kavakos, and in 2021 he won an annual scholarship for private lessons.
He represented Greece at the “14th International Wieniawski-Lipinski Competition” in Poland, 2018. He has participated in several music festivals (in Aegina, Lesvos, Nafplion).

Andreas Tselikas
His winning of the “Encouragement Award” at the International Competition for Young Conductors “Jean Sibelius” 2005 in Helsinki marked the beginning of his international career. Between 2000 and 2005 he won first prizes at the “Wiener Meisterkurse” for conductors in Vienna. He has been guest conductor to famous orchestras in Greece, Germany, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Romania, Albania, Ukraine, Portugal, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and the USA, in prestigious concert halls as the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Radio House in Copenhagen, the Kiev Philharmonic Hall, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Megaron-the Athens Concert Hall, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Onassis Cultural Center, among others.
He is the Principal Conductor of the Athens Municipal Symphony Orchestra after having served as Associate Principal Conductor of the Greek National Opera. He has recorded for Subways and Parma Records. He has received international praising reviews of his numerous concerts.
He studied conducting and music composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (with professors Leopold Hager, Erwin Acel, and Herbert Lauermann), and at the Hellenic American University with Theodore Antoniou. He had also studied cultural management at the Open University of Cyprus, advanced music theory, as well as violin with Nancy Bargerstock.
His works have been performed in Greece and abroad by various musical ensembles and orchestras. He teaches orchestral conducting at the Athens Conservatory.

Χριστόφορος Πετρίδης βιολί, Christoforos Petridis violin
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Sunday, June 30th 2024Vouleftiko Hall at 21:00
50 years of democracy
Giorgos Kouvaras talks to Anna Diamantopoulou about the fifty years of democracy in modern Greece.
The 50 years that have passed since the fall of the military dictatorship in Greece were years lived in peace and relative prosperity, experiencing the best performing Democracy (compared to our past ones) of our history. At the same time, it is clear that we failed economically (compared to other countries), something that resulted in another bankruptcy.
In this 50-year period, there were 20 electoral contests without any dispute, and the democratic institutions endured even in the toughest moments of the economic crisis, when Greece suffered a loss of 25% of its GDP.
Democracy endured. It is interesting to analyze its qualitative characteristics because, coming out of the dictatorship, democracy was often associated with a Greek mentality of “I-do-whatever-I-want,” being beyond laws and rules.
The evolution of the political system is obviously related to the history, culture, and personalities of this period.
PASOK was the largest organized popular party.
New Democracy was the party with the deepest roots, and the Left, although defeated in the Civil War and persecuted by the post-war state, influenced the culture and politics of both parties disproportionately relative to its electoral power.
In elections, winning over centrist voters was the decisive factor that led to victories, while the Left imposed itself ideologically on society.
The 21st century changed this course of events. Social mobility has ceased, the young experienced successive crises growing up without a positive outlook, the parties lost their shine, and society became more conservative. The challenges after the first 50 years of peace and democracy are a new great national vision for the country, concerning income redistribution, equality, collective optimism, and requiring very different approaches.
Climate change, artificial intelligence, and the need to converge with the EU average are the demands of the new era, which can no longer be called “metapolitefsi”, the term that has been coined to describe the post-junta period.

Κουβαράς και Διαμαντοπούλου Ναύπλιο, Kouvaras and Diamantopoulou
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Monday, July 1st 2024, Square of Agios Spyridon at 21:00
AUNER QUARTET Vienna 
Daniel Auner, Violin
Barbara de Menezes Galante, Violin
Gabriel Squizzato, Viola
Konstantin Zelenin, Cello
Founded in 2013 and appointed by Austria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as cultural ambassadors, the Auner Quartet has firmly established itself in the international world of classical music. 
Program
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Quartettsatz in C minor, D 703
Kontantia Gourzi (b. 1962) - Telestía
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) - String Quartet D-Major
Allegro molto
Intermezzo-Andantino grazioso
Allegro
Alban Berg (1885-1935) Lyric Suite for strings quartet
Allegretto gioviale
Andante amoroso
Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico
Adagio appassionato
Presto delirando - Tenebroso
Largo desolato
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) String quartet no. 19 in C major, KV 465 
Adagio. Allegro 
Andante cantabile 
Menuetto and Trio. Allergro 
Allegro molto
Auner Quartet Vienna
Winner of the Eugéne Ysaÿe competition in Liége, Belgium and recently as “Auner Quartet – The award-winning string quartet: a perfect musical match” as first Austrian ensemble on the cover of the Performing Arts Yearbook of Europe, the viennese string quartet has firmly established itself in the international world of classical music. Founded in 2013 and appointed by Austria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as cultural ambassadors, the quartet also regularly performs as part of the NASOM series in cultural forums and embassies worldwide. Praised for its "stylistic confidence and true emotion… as for all four, chamber music seems to be the essence of music itself..." (Radio Ö1, “Intrada”), and also "the ensemble demonstrates refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire". Following an old Viennese tradition of salon concerts, the group organizes a chamber music cycle in the city of music, performing and moderating through the program in e.g. the Brahms Saal of the Vienna Musikverein, the Schubert Saal of the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Arnold Schönberg Centre, the Baroque Hall of the Vienna City Hall and the Ehrbar Hall. In season 2021/22 the cycle found a permanent home in the chapel of the emperors’ palace, the Hofburg.
As passionate chamber musicians the quartet strives to not only explore the extensive repertoire, but also to present their unique rhetorical voice within the music. As the studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna focus strongly on the mastery of the “Wiener Klang” (the Viennese Sound), as well as a sophisticated interpretation of works from the Viennese Classical period; graduates Barbara, Gabriel, Konstantin and Daniel went as individual musicians through one concerted training. Sharing the same educational background, they bring the Viennese musical patrimony and individual emotional approach into this musical melting pot. The artists use their cultural heritage and consider it as their vocation to convey music as a spontaneous and original experience. Artistic impulses from e.g. Hatto Beyerle and Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) and Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Alasdair Tait (Belcea Quartet), Geoffrey Nuttall and Lesley Robertson (St. Lawrence String Quartet, USA) continue to inspire; the Auner Quartet is a selected member of ECMA, the European Chamber Music Academy.
Compromised of violinists Daniel Auner, Barbara de Menezes Galante, violist Gabriel Squizzato, and cellist Konstantin Zelenin, the ensemble is performing regularly in various venues. As strong advocates for outreach events and educational workshops, the Auner Quartet is actively searching to engage various communities in diverse ways. The quartet holds workshops in schools, making the often first approach to classical music for listeners an easy entry. In a time of shrinking audiences, the group considers it a duty to personally address new listeners. Social work, often in collaboration with the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, included masterclasses and performances for numerous youth music programs in Peru, Brazil, Belize and South Africa.
The album with Simon Reitmaier on the Clarinet (featuring Clarinet Quintets by Mozart, Reger and Leitner) has been highly appraised by its critics and has been released on the Gramola Label in February 2018. A portrait of the chamber music works by Johanna Doderer had been released on the Capriccio Label in 2019 and a new recording with string quartets from Egon Wellesz, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Anton von Webern to be recorded for the Austrian National Bank was released on Gramola, in 2021.
The Auner Quartett is a partner of the Viennese string manufacturer Thomastik Infeld, working closely on improvements of their outstanding products. Daniel plays on a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, a generous loan from the collection of precious instruments of the Austrian National Bank. Also, in the quartet to hear is a violin by Giovanni Paulo Maggini and a Cello by Giovanni Battista Grancino.

Auner Quartet Vienna
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Tuesday, July 2nd 2024, Square of Agios Spyridon at 21:00
VYSEHRAD TRIO 
Natálie Toperczerová, violin
Štěpánka Plocková, cello
Pavol Praženica, piano
Program
Josef Suk (1874 – 1935) Ελεγία για πιάνο τρίο, εργ. 23
Bedřich Smetana (1824 – 1884) Πιάνο τρίο σε Σολ ελάσσονα, εργ. 15
Moderato Assai
Allegro, Ma Non Agitato
Presto
Διάλειμμα
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Πιάνο τρίο αρ. 4, εργ. 90 “Dumky”
Lento maestoso - Allegro quasi doppio movimento
Poco adagio - Vivace non troppo - Vivace
Andante - Vivace non troppo - Allegretto
Andante moderato - Allegretto scherzando - Quasi tempo di marcia
Allegro
Lento maestoso

Vyšehrad Trio
The Vysehrad Trio was founded in Prague in 2018. The musicians of the Trio have had several successful performances both as soloists and members of the ensemble; they also play in orchestral ensembles.
The Trio has performed, among others, in the Czech Embassy in Berlin, the Martinu Hall at Liechtenstein Palace, the Saint Charles Borromeo Home, the National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J.A. Comenius in Prague. Its favorite repertoire includes works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Sergei Rachmaninov. The Vysehrad Trio came 3rd (chamber music category) in the international music competition Concertino Praga 2021.

Vysehrad Trio
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Wednesday, July 3rd 2024Fougaro Art Center at 21:00
MONOLOGUES – for three guitars and one performer
Isn’t a “Monologue” having a dialogue with yourself? This project is a recital made for three guitars (romantic, classical and electric), and one guitarist. “Monologues” aims to deliver the dialogue between the composer, performer and the instrument, like an actor delivering the most powerful lines; the solo guitar becomes a storyteller, reflecting a personal connection to the world around us today.
A mix of electric and acoustic sounds, early and modern works. A journey through time...

Tip:
For the public’s transportation to Fougaro Art Center, the City Tour’s open bus will be available.
Departure from "Pi" spot (harbor of Nafplio) at 20:00.

Program
Leo Brouwer (1939)
Paisaje Cubano Con Rumba (arr. for electric guitar Dimitris Soukaras)
John Dowland (1563 – 1626)
Mr Dowland’s Midnight
Α Fancy P.5 (arr. for guitar Dimitris Soukaras & Michael Lewin)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Prelude BWV 1012 (arr. for guitar Dmitris Soukaras)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 – 1968)
Capriccio de Goya N.18 "El Sueno de la razón produce monstruos"
Eric Satie (1866 – 1925)
Gnossienne No.1 Lent & Gymnopedie No.1 Lent et douloureux (arr. for guitar Dimitris Soukaras)
Vicente Asencio (1908 – 1979)
Collectici Intim (II. La Joia, III. La Calma, IV. La Guabanca)
Intermission
Roland Dyens (1955 – 2016) - Tango en Skai
Belle Chen (1988)
Anamneses - departure - drops - reflections - a song (Composed in collaboration with Dimitris Soukaras)
Dimitris Soukaras (1995)
Reflections of Corea (based on Children’s Songs No.1 and No.3 by Chick Corea)

Dimitris Soukaras
He was born in Corinth in 1995. He is a guitarist based in London. He is considered one of the most awarded and promising musicians of his generation. He was the first student of the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University to complete his studies in 3 years (instead of 5 years) with a grade of "A" and has been awarded the DipRAM (the highest award of the Royal Academy of Music) for outstanding achievement in his studies. He has been awarded more than 20 prizes in international competitions. He is a Eurostring and D'Addario Artist, AER amps artist, Yeoman of the Musician's Company, winner of the IGF Young Artists Platform and winner of the Stradivari Trust.
In March 2024 he completed his PhD thesis at the University of Surrey with the research topic "The role of the performer, through the creation of new guitar works by non-guitarist composers", obtaining a Ph.D. He has given seminars as a guest lecturer at many music and guitar festivals in Europe and regularly teaches at the Rachmaninov Music Academy in London. He holds a Master of Arts and Advanced Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he attended on a full scholarship. He has also been awarded First Prize by the Academy of Athens in the scholarship competition for study abroad.

Δηµήτρης Σουκαράς κιθάρα, Dimitris Soukaras Greek guitarist
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Thursday, July 4th 2024Vouleftiko Hall at 21:00
Nefeli Mousoura, piano soloist, in plays of Mozart, Scarlatti, Eric Satie, Debussy, Rachmaninoff etc.
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 12 Variations on: "Ah vous dirai-je, maman", K. 265
Domenico Scarlatti (1785 – 1857) - Sonata in F minor, K. 466
Eric Satie (1866 – 1925) Gnossienne no. 3
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) Estampes
Pagodes: Modérément animé
La soirée dans Grenade: Mouvement de Habanera
Jardins sous la pluie: Net et vif
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) - Moments musicaux, op. 13:
Alberto Ginastera (1916 – 1983) - 3 Danzas Argentinas
Nefeli Mousoura, piano
Born in Athens, Nefeli Mousoura has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s Degree with highest Distinction in Solo Piano Performance from Mozarteum University Salzburg. Her teachers were Anastasios Pappas, Rolf Plagge and Imre Rohmann. She is also an honors graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Athens University of Music and Performing Arts.
Nefeli is the recipient of scholarships awarded by the Onassis Foundation, the Education and European Culture Foundation, the Athens Megaron Music Friends Society and the Gina Bachauer Foundation. She has won Prizes in International Competitions such as the Campillos International Competition in Spain and the prestigious "Prize for Young Pianists" awarded by the Academy of Athens.
As a soloist she regularly performs with orchestras in Greece and Europe and is regularly invited to international festivals: Scriabin in Moscow, Eilat in Israel, and festivals in Salzburg, Italy and the USA. She has toured China and South Korea.
She has collaborated, among others, with conductor Christoph Eschenbach, pianist Boris Berezovsky, and violinists Ivry Gitlis and Sergey Krylov.
In 2022 she made her debut at the Konzerthaus Wien. She has also appeared as a soloist at UNESCO in Paris, and has performed piano concertos with orchestras such as the Orchestre de l’lsle de France in Paris, the Israeli Raanana Symphony in Tel Aviv, I Maestri Orchestra of London, the Ton der Jugend Symphonierchester Wien, the Armonia Atenea, the Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau, Romania, the Philharmonia of Athens, the City of Athens Symphony Orchestra, the ERT National Symphony Orchestra, and the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras.

Νεφέλη Μούσουρα πιάνο, Nefeli Mousoura Greek pianist
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Friday, July 5th 2024Agios Georgios' Square at 21:00
Alexandros-Drakos Ktistakis and Katerina Polemi "Anthologia Graeca"
Contributors:
Alexandros-Drakos Ktistakis: composition, drums, electronics
Drakos Ktistakis: drums, electronics
Yiannis Papadopoulos, piano, keyboards
Giorgos Georgiadis, bass
Vocals and recitation by Katerina Polemi
Alexandros-Drakos Ktistakis sets to music a poetic anthology of significant representatives of Greek poetry, and together with his quartet, they “converse” with Greek poets. The poetic anthology spans many different historical periods, as the poetry of the pre-revolutionary period intersects with that of the interwar period and contemporary poetry. Mrs. Katerina Polemi participates.
Alexandros-Drakos Ktistakis’s compositions are inextricably linked with speech and poetry, as evidenced by his three personal works. With clear musical references to improvisation, the quartet’s music abolishes forms and adopts elements from different music genres, leading to a musical work that extends beyond the boundaries of jazz.

Αλέξανδρος Δράκος Κτιστάκης και Κατερίνα Πολέμη, Ktistakis and Polemi Anthologia Graeca
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Saturday, July 6th 2024, in Bourtzi at 21:00
Honoring 50 Years of Democracy in modern Greece, Stefanos Korkolis and Sofia Manousaki on Mikis Theodorakis’ Plays, on the emblematic Bourtzi!
Mikis Theodorakis lived his life with passion, loved people, and was dedicated to music. He was the great composer, the great peace fighter who marked modern Greek history with his works and struggles. The 50 years of Greek democracy are inextricably linked with his musical creations.
In the final years of his life, Mikis entrusted Stefanos Korkolis with his “new beginning,” calling him “the ideal interpreter and ambassador of his music to the Greek and international audience”. According to Mikis, Sofia Manousaki was the “great, new revelation, both vocally and interpretatively”. “[Sofia] fully captured the ingenious interpretative concept of Stefanos Korkolis, who, with a piano, creates a musical-sound universe, the result of a large symphony orchestra with thousands of colors and rhythms”, Mikis mentioned in a handwritten message.
The Korkolis – Manousaki duo has recorded three gold albums featuring Mikis’s works and has given sold-out concerts in Greece and abroad. To celebrate the 50 years of modern Greek democracy, lyrical songs by the great Greek composer, as well as excerpts from his works “Axion Esti”, “Mauthausen” and “Epitaph” are to be performed by Stefanos (piano) and Sofia (voice).
Seat reservations
In order for the public to attend the concert, it is necessary to pre-book seats, as the number of spectators is limited. According to the current guidelines of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolis, the total number of spectators cannot exceed 300.
The registrations will open Thursday, July 4th 2024 at 12:00, on the platform that will be uploaded with a relevant link, on the website of the Municipality of Nafplio: https://nafplio.gr/ , the website of the Festival: https://www.nafplionfestival.gr/ and on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dimosnafpliewn
For the transportation of the spectators to and from Bourtzi, boats will be used with a fee of five (5) euros. The boarding will be preceded by identification, with the presentation of relevant documents.
The routes will start at 19:30 from the dock of the port of Nafplio (opposite Karamanlis restaurant).

Korkolis Manousaki duet, Κορκολής και Μανουσάκη
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Sunday, July 7th 2024,  Vouleftiko Hall at 21:00
Timotheos Gavriilides-Petrin and Alexia Mouza, outstanding performers with a remarkable artistic presence at international level, unite their talents in a highly emotional programme with cello and piano. 
Works by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Johannes Brahms, and others will be performed.
Program
Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) - Adagio und Allegro, op. 70
Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963) - Cello Sonata FP 143
Allegro, Tempo di Marcia
Cavatine
Ballabile
Finale
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Cello Sonata no.2 in F major op.99
Allegro vivace
Adagio affettuoso
Allegro passionato
Allegro molto
The cello stands out among the strings for its deep lyrical sound, which resembles, one could say, a human voice, masculine and full-bodied. Leading composers, especially of the Romantic era, considered the cello ideal for expressing their "great" melodies and their most heartbreaking narratives. The piano, on the other hand, absolutely dominant in the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, had shown its full potential for a sound of symphonic dimensions, which can shine as such but also exuberantly accompany other instruments. That is why the cello and piano's association uniquely stimulated the imagination of many composers and inspired some of their finest works.

Petrin and Mouza musicians in Nafplio Festival 2024
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Sunday, July 7th 2024,  Vouleftiko Hall at 19:00
The Mystagogy of the Byzantine Vespers - Parallel Event
Following the first Interdisciplinary Conference of Faculties and Departments of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: “NKUA 2024 – Developments and Perspectives”, the Choir of Chanters “The Masters of the Psaltic Art” conducted by Choirmaster Achilleas Chaldæakes, member of NKUA’s Administration, present Byzantine evening prayers, under the auspices of the Holy Metropolis of Argolis.
Compositions by the great Byzantine masters Manouel Ampelokipiotis, Nikolaos Koukoumas and Ioannis Koukouzelis will be heard.

Οι Μαΐστορες της Ψαλτικής Τέχνης

Admission
Free in all performances, except the one in Bourtzi (July 6th 2024), where the special procedure described will apply.

Reservations
To attend the events, the earliest possible arrival is sufficient. 
For availability on July 6th 2024, contact the Nafplio Cultural Administration's municipal offices​​​​​​, located at Asklipiou Avenue (Villa Zymbrakaki)
Τ. +30 27520 27153

Information
Τ. +30 27520 27153
U. www.nafplionfestival.gr 

Did you know that?
The Nafplio Festival has hosted some of the brightest ensembles and artists of the international classical scene and has been honored with the distinction of the best festival by the Union of Greek Music Critics. In the context of its activities, over 300 Greek and foreign artists have appeared, including some of the most famous names in the world, as well as 25 Quartets, 20 Symphonic and Chamber Orchestras, and a multitude of emerging young artists. Its concerts, which are held with symbolic ticket prices, at the enchanting monuments and squares of Nafplio, have attracted more than 200,000 Greek and foreign visitors, both from the local community, who have loved and supported it since the first year, as well as from Athens and the rest of Greece, while it has steadfast friends who attend every year, underlining the cultural value of the Festival.
Production organization: Phorminx (Φόρμιγξ) Concert Company.

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