Mahler Cycle IX

With the generous support of the Embassy of Slovenia in Athens

Fri. 10 January 2020 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

Now something of a favourite with Athenian audiences, the veteran Slovenian conductor Uroš Lajovic will this year conduct the great Austrian Romantic symphonist's Third Symphony. The Third hymns nature in both its idyllic and wilder, more dionysian, forms. As in most of Mahler's symphonies, the detailed "magnifying glass" of the composer's conception achieves a singular balance between his intricate rhetorical devices and a profound lyricism which is both simple and unaffected.

19:45, free introductory speech by Titos Gouvelis for ticket holders