EUROPIANO | Music Day
Megaron the Athens Concert Hall connected Athens with Europe’s leading musical capitals. Watch the concerts as they were broadcast from 11 European cities here.
On World Music Day, Megaron the Athens Concert Hall connected Athens with Europe’s leading musical capitals through the presentation of the major pan-European project EUROPIANO – Europe’s Great Piano Concertos, an ambitious production by ARTE, ZDF / ARTE, ARTE GEIE, ARTE France and NDR/ARTE, in collaboration with leading European cultural institutions and broadcasters.
From Vienna and Paris to Stockholm, Lisbon and Athens, landmark works from the international piano repertoire were performed in historic and iconic venues, highlighting music as a shared European language.
The Greek contribution was filmed on the Pnyx hill, against the backdrop of the Attic sky and the Acropolis of Athens. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, under the musical direction of Constantinos Carydis and featuring distinguished pianist Lukas Sternath as soloist, performed Piano Concerto No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven, the celebrated “Emperor” Concerto.
The official public screening of EUROPIANO took place live in the garden of the Megaron the Athens Concert Hall.
EUROPIANO brought together leading pianists from the international music scene, including Martha Argerich, Yulianna Avdeeva, Rafał Blechacz, Bruce Liu, Eric Lu, Mao Fujita, Lukas Sternath, Hayato Sumino, Nobuyuki Tsujii and Anna Vinnitskaya, representing different musical traditions, generations and interpretative approaches.
They were joined by distinguished European orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and other leading symphonic ensembles from across Europe, under the baton of internationally acclaimed conductors including Klaus Mäkelä, Konstantinos Karidis, Hannu Lintu, Alain Altinoglu and Petr Popelka.
SPONSOR OF EVENTS AT THE MEGARON GARDEN
SPONSOR OF MEGARON CONCERT AT PNYX
Coproduction: Megaron the Athens Concert Hall – Unitel Blue – ARTE – ZDF
PROGRAMME
16:30 VIENNA — Konzerthaus Vienna
Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Performed by Yulianna Avdeeva, the Vienna Philharmonic — Conductor: Petr Popelka
17:30 PARIS — Philharmonie de Paris
Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor
Performed by Nobuyuki Tsujii and the Orchestre de Paris — Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä
18:10 POZNAŃ — Konzerthalle
Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
Performed by Rafał Blechacz and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra — Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz
19:00 STOCKHOLM — Konserthuset Stockholm
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Performed by Eric Lu and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra — Conductor: Ryan Bancroft
19:45 STRASBOURG — Palais de la Musique
Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major
Performed by Anna Vinnitskaya and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra — Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov
20:10 VALENCIA — Courtyard of the Old University
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major
Performed by Mao Fujita and the Orquestra de València — Conductor: Alexander Liebreich
21:10 ATHENS — Megaron at the Pnyx
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major
Performed by Lukas Sternath and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen — Conductor: Konstantinos Karidis
Concert Sponsor: Aegeas Non-Profit
22:00 HAMBURG — Laeiszhalle
Robert Schumann, Piano Concerto in A minor
Performed by Martha Argerich and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra — Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
22:35 LISBON — Belém Tower
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor
Performed by Bruce Liu and the Gulbenkian Orchestra — Conductor: Hannu Lintu
23:16 WIESBADEN — Kurhaus Wiesbaden
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Performed by Hayato Sumino and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony — Conductor: Alain Altinoglu
23:50 KIEV
Borys Lyatoshynsky – Slavic Concerto for Piano
Performed by Maksym Shadko, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and the Kyiv Camerata – Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson