ERT National Symphony Orchestra - Michalis Economou - Elisey Mysin

World Music Day
Works by Shostakovich, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Borodin

On 21 June, as every year, we celebrate World Music Day. This year, for the first time in Greece, we are welcoming the child piano prodigy, 13-year-old Elisey Mysin from Russia. The young award-winning soloist will perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in collaboration with ERT National Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of internationally acclaimed conductor Michalis Economou. The concert will be accompanied by ERT Choir, which together with the orchestra will perform some of the world’s musical masterpieces.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Overture in A major, Op. 96

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2
I. Maestoso
II. Larghetto
III. Allegro vivace
Soloist Elisey Mysin piano

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Alexandr Borodin (1833-1887)
‘Polovtsian Dances’ from the opera Prince Igor