October18 2018 (Thu)
7:30 PM

Phos Hilaron: With music from silence towards Illumination

Archaion Kallos Festival of Orthodox Music 2018

Liechtenstein Palace (Malostranské sq.) - Gallery | Classical Music

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Date: October 18, 2018 | 19:30 (Thu)
Venue: Liechtenstein Palace (Malostranské sq.) - Gallery
Duration: 60 minutes
Status: Not available
Group discount 10+ people
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A unique combination of instrumental music and live electronics inspired by Orthodox spirituality

As every year, the last concert of the series is concerned with hesychasm, quietness and internal silence, which on this occasion is inspired by the theme of this year festival: illumination (φωτισμός).

Program: 

Arvo Pärt, Gennadij N. Lapajev, Jakub Rataj (World premiere), Byzantine Music and other 

Performing: 

Sára Medková: piano 
Jakub Rataj: 
sound interventions

About the festival: 

The Greek expression "archaion kallos" means "ancient beauty," but in the vocabulary of the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Christian Church, "archaion kallos" speaks of a certain archetype, an "original beauty" - the beauty which man beheld in Paradise and which he experienced after Creation. Philokallia (a word of Greek origin meaning "love of the beautiful") gave this name to the first and only festival of Orthodox music in Prague because they perceive every act in sacred music, whether of composition or interpretation, as a kind of conscious or unconscious search for this pristine beauty, the Archaion Kallos.

As in previous years festival will present a wide and varied spectrum of Orthodox music, ranging from the sounds of Byzantine music, through romanticism (S. Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil), to works by leading contemporary composers such as Arvo Pärt and Gennadij N. Lapajev as well as world premieres of the works of young Czech composers – Jakub Rataje and Jan Dušek.

Please note: 

Music students: entrance free
The concert has no intermission.

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