Kancheli Tribute | Thessaloniki | May 15

[Alexandros Filippidis]

The Thessaloniki Concert Hall (tch.gr) is paying tribute to the championed Georgian composer Giya Kancheli (1935-2019), described by Rodion Shchedrin as "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist - a restrained Vesuvius." Performing five miniatures from Kancheli's "Songbook for Piano" are Lola Totsiou on piano, Andreas Papanikolaou on violin, David Alexander Bagorad on viola and Dimos Goudaroulis on cello.

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