The choir’s international trip for 2025 brought the “Yannis Mantakas” Choir to Vienna. As part of the festival organized for the first time outside Germany by CHORALSPACE – International Academy for Choral Arts, a concert was held at St. Elisabeth’s Church. The program was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of two monumental figures of modern Greek music, Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis. The concert opened with two short sacred works by W. A. Mozart. As always, our conductor was Erifili Damianou. Also participating in the event, titled “Songs of Light and Sea,” was the Brazilian choir Coral Cantus Firmus.
Program:
- A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus (KV 618)
- A. Mozart: Laudate Dominum (KV 339)
- Manos Hadjidakis (arrangement Costas Tsougras): The Rose
- Manos Hadjidakis (arrangement Dimitris Karvounis): The North wind came, the South wind came
- Mikis Theodorakis (arrangement Panagis Barbatis): With the star-lantern
- Mikis Theodorakis (arrangement Vasilis Papakonstantinou): Alongside the Morning Star
- Mikis Theodorakis: O Sun of Justice
Instrumental accompaniment:
- Kyriaki Kalaitzidou – soprano
- Ermina Konstantinidou – flute
- Giorgos Ntafos – piano
