Brahms and Elgar

For its first symphonic concert of the New Year, the Athens State Orchestra welcomes two experienced artists with long and distinguished careers on the international music scene. The pianist Dimitris Toufexis performs Brahms’ colossal First Piano Concerto. He is followed by the Israeli conductor, Yoav Talmi, who unravels the threads of the symphonic variations which cloak Elgar’s mysterious ‘enigma’ to this day...