The First Cycle, titled “The Age of Revolutions” and curated by the versatile and highly prolific artist Dimos Goudaroulis, is dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven and his creative entourage. It will feature music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, spanning Classicism to Early Romanticism, with masterworks of chamber music by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert, performed on period instruments by prominent Greek and European musicians.

Five leading musicians of the European Early Music Scene, Shunske Sato and Simos Papanas on the violin, Emlyn Stam on the viola, and  Job ter Haar and Dimos Goudaroulis on the violoncello, present two emblematic chamber works performed on period instruments. The captivating anonymous adaptation for string quintet with two cellos of the famous “Kreutzer” Sonata, Op. 47 by Ludwig van Beethoven, published in Vienna in 1832 and most probably attributed to the composer himself or to his student and close collaborator Ferdinand Ries, will be presented for the first time in Greece. The programme will conclude with the emblematic string quintet in C major by Franz Schubert, a work of symphonic scale and transcendental beauty, considered one of the most important and masterful chamber music pieces of all time.