Beethoven: 250 years

Vladimir Ashkenazi's recent decision to withdraw from the active concert action, has been known to the world's audience with sadness and emotion. The active Belarusian conductor Vyatcheslav Volich, first conductor of the Odessa National Academic Opera will be standing at the podium of the Athens State Orchestra during this concert. He will be conducting Dvorak's famous New World Symphony and collaborating in Beethoven's Violin Concerto no. 1 with the talented Fil (Triantafyllos) Liotis, who has already embarked on a glittering international career.