Serghei Prokofiev, circa 1927
War and Peace ΙΙ
With the kind support of the Embassy of Belgium
The dynamic Belgian conductor Michel Tilkin makes his Athens State Orchestra debut with Beethoven's ever-thrilling Seventh Symphony, a milestone in the symphonic repertoire. During World War One, Ravel composed his soulful "le Tombeau de Couperin" suite as a tribute to friends of his who had fallen in the war. Inhabiting an entirely different aesthetic space, Prokofiev's epic Second Piano Concerto, interpreted by Titos Gouvelis, with its gloomy timbres, dissonance and fiendish technical challenges, conjures up a 'war-like' atmosphere.
