Athens State Orchestra - Neeme Järvi
Beethoven's Ninth
Production of the Athens State Orchestra
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 achievements 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.
