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Andreas Papanikolaou's captivating performance of Shostakovich's 'Violin Concerto No. 1' caused excitement 12 May 2025

More than 1,000 music lovers gathered on Friday at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall to watch the TSSO's tribute to the 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitry Shostakovich and enjoyed two wonderful works by the leading Russian composer in wonderful performances. The great violinist and member of the TSSO family, Andreas Papanikolaou, offered a captivating interpretation of the wonderful and at the same time so demanding first violin concerto, artfully rendering the work's constant mood changes and facing its technical challenges in ways that took the audience's breath away, who rightly rewarded him at the end with a five-minute apotheosis, to which the soloist responded with the 'Gavotte en Rondeau' from Bach's 3rd part for solo violin. In the second part, the TSSO, under the solid guidance of the leading German conductor Marcus Bosch, highlighted all the dramatic power and expressive richness of the music from the opera 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk' through the orchestral suite by J. Conlon, with the audience reacting enthusiastically at the end, showing that they particularly enjoyed this tribute.

     
 

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