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Spring bid us farewell with wonderful melodies of Romanticism 02 June 2025

The two works of the TSSO’s tribute to the 100th anniversary of the death of Moritz Moskovsky offered a rare wealth of beautiful melodies and diverse emotions from the beginning to the end of the concert, which took place on Friday, May 30, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The internationally acclaimed Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan introduced the city’s audience to the rarely performed Piano Concerto No. 2 of the honored composer, which is her favorite concerto as she stated, amazingly rendering its beautiful and luminous melodies, with the audience cheering her at the end and thus enjoying an encore from the Romanian virtuoso. In the second part, the mood changed with the torrential entry of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, which is an existential battle of human existence against decay and an ultimate victory of the spirit over matter. This shift from the extroversion of the concerto to more internal themes, however, did not diminish in the least the barrage of wonderful melodies, since the ingenious Russian composer incorporates plenty of them in his work and highlights them through his brilliant orchestration. The TSSO contucting by the famous Austrian conductor David Greilsammer gave the audience a unique interpretation of this masterpiece of late Romanticism and the audience rewarded the protagonists with its warmest applause.

      

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