New Year’s Day concert of Thessaloniki’s State Symphony Orchestra

Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra (T.S.O) welcomes 2023 with two masterpieces of the 20th century. Carl Orff’s legendary work ‘Carmina Burana’ arose out of a discovery by the composer of various medieval poems by some heretical and excommunicated monks, who adored worldly pleasures. Orff took a selection of lyrics and composed an impressive stage cantata, where “melody and harmony are subordinated to rhythm, timbre and speech” (W.W.Austin), in a unique final result that “combines high spirituality with natural vitality and unites the past with the future” (E. Valentin). Ravel’s masterpiece ‘La Valse’ has been described as a choreographed poem for orchestra.

Participants:
Choir Laboratory of the Schools of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
‘Giannis Mantakas’ choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki