From the Venizelos of Crete to the Crete of Venizelos
Concert in support of the “Eleftherios K. Venizelos” National Research Foundation
The figure of Eleftherios Venizelos towers over the history of 20th-century Greece like no other, and it was inevitable that he would provide inspiration to one of his greatest admirers, the composer Manolis Kalomiris. Of course, the statesman's Cretan homeland has also left its mark on the work of other composers including Skalkottas, Mitropoulos and Koumentakis. The distinguished maestro Byron Fidetzis conducts a programme inspired by the Cretan Muse and concluded with Dvorák's Fifth Symphony
