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From modern creation to late romanticism 30 November 2025

The TSSO concert, which took place on Friday, 28/11, at the Emilios Riadis Hall of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, began with works by two of the greatest composers of our time, 'Silent Music' by the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov and the 'Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings' by the Russian Sofia Gubaidulina, ending with the famous string serenade by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a Russian of Ukrainian origin, on his father's side.
The orchestra was joined by two distinguished Greek artists: the exceptionally talented conductor Konstantinos Terzakis, who led the TSSO on this interesting musical journey, and our country’s leading bassoonist, Georgios Faroungias, who performed the innovative concerto by Gubaidulina, who passed away on March 13 of this year and to whom the concert was dedicated. After the end of his wonderful performance, Farougias greeted one by one the 14 musicians of the low strings of the TSSO who performed with him in the concerto and returned the warm applause of the audience with an encore, saying that "Sofia Gubaidulina was one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Her works will mark the lives of many soloists and performers. I was lucky enough to meet Sofia several years ago and from the little I knew about her, she was a great admirer of Bach, as she told me. However, her unfulfilled desire was to become a jazz musician. Thus, she passed these points in the tragic cadenza that we heard. A short while ago, she left us, leaving us her work. So we pay tribute to something she loved very much with a transcription of the suite for cello No. 2 by Bach, but with the melancholic, perhaps even optimistic message of the song 'Autumn Leaves', since autumn is now leaving and winter is coming. However, I will not play this work alone, but all together, as we started this wonderful week".

      

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