Artistic direction of the festival
Dimos Goudaroulis
Following the 7
th Baroque Music Festival, entitled The Age of Experiments, which took place in November 2024 and presented music from the 17
th century, this year’s 8th Baroque Music Festival evolves the theme over a three-year course, from 2024 to 2026. The 2025 festival is entitled The Age of Transitions and focuses on the music of the 18
th century. This is a fertile and defining period in the history of music, characterized by continuous changes in style and genre — from late Baroque to classicism.
The four concerts of the festival span the entire 18
th century through a rich program. The journey begins with Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, published exactly 300 years ago, in 1725. It continues with works of the Style Galant by Georg Philipp Telemann and Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, moves on to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Sturm und Drang and the pro-classical style of Johann Christian Bach, and ends with classicism with the refined music of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as at the end of the 18
th century with the opus 1 of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, thus heralding the arrival of a new era.
This year, we have the honour of hosting the Festival’s Baroque Orchestra, as well as some of the most important and active musicians of the Greek Baroque scene. With them, one of the most famous and influential musicians of our time in the field of early music: the French cellist, gamba player and conductor Christophe Coin, with a brilliant career spanning decades on the international stage.
FRI 7th November
Από τις 4 εποχές του Antonio Vivaldi στο Sturm und Drang του Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
SAT 8th November
Style Galant - Quartet for flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord
FRI 14th November
The beginning of a new era - Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven
SAT 15th November
A musical evening at Princess Anna Amalia's - concertante for viola da gambe and fortepiano