11TH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL CHANIA

28, 30 August & 01, 03 & 04 September 2023

2023 sees the Chamber Music Festival Chania enter its second decade as a summer fixture on Crete’s musical calendar. To date, the only event on Crete to focus on chamber music has hosted 34 concerts attended by at least 5000 music lovers.
The overall title of this year’s Festival is “The Creation of the World – Création du Monde”. Starting from the ballet music of that name written by the French composer Darius Milhaud in 1923, and staging five concerts in all–two in the iconic Theatre of Ancient Aptera, with the full support of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania and the Region of Crete–, the Festival will spotlight chamber works that broke new ground with their aesthetic and their content; works that opening up new horizons and Created (new) Worlds.

Information: www.chambermusicfestival.gr

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10TH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL CHANIA

26, 28, 29, 31 August  & 01 September 2022

Aimez-vous Brahms… With playful mood and references that refer to literature (and cinema), the  Chamber Music Festival Chania celebrates its 10 years.

Five concerts, five top Brahms compositions opposite seven works by other romantics & 15 musicians of international scope…

Rendezvous, as always, in Chania in his last week August (26.08 – 01.09).

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While assuring our guests’ fulfilling experience and memories of joy, Minoa Palace Resort introduces the Safety Protocol, an integrated Health and Safety Plan encompassing all measures and procedures across hotel departments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Safety Protocol complies with the World Health Organization and the Greek Government health authorities.

Safety Protocol key guidelines:
• Staff equipped with personal protective equipment and trained accordingly
• Personal protective equipment available for all guests at reception desk
• Fast, contactless check-in and check-out
• Cooperation with Covid-19 certified doctor available 24/7
• Disinfectant dispensers throughout hotel public areas
• Disinfection of surfaces and high-volume touch points (door handles, elevator buttons, handrails etc) on a regular basis
• Social-distancing measures applied in all public spaces for guest safety
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• Deep cleaning and disinfection of guest rooms
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8TH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019

26, 28, 30 August  02, 04 September 2019

The 8th Chamber Music Festival is inspired by the great El Greco. The Cretan Doménikos Theotokópoulos, widely known as El Greco (“The Greek”) boasted a dramatic and expressionistic style, which was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual, that he belongs to no conventional school.

Three musical works from Jon Leifs, George Tsontakis and Philippos Tsalahouris carry into the 20th and 21st century El Greco’s intense spiritual force. Similar to the painter’s life, the festival embarks on a musical journey through Greece, Italy and Spain, exposing musically the same unique “colors” of each country, that shaped the painter’s visionary art.

These three musical ‘El Greco’ works initiate each one of the three concerts on 28.8, 30.8 and 2.9 and are enriched by several other musical ‘pearls’, with Greek, Italian and Spanish ‘colors’. Two additional concerts begin and end the 8^th Minoa Palace Music Festival; a Prologue on 26.8 with works from the romantic era and a Finale on 4.9 featuring the celebrated Apollon Musagete string quartet.

For more info visit  http://chambermusicfestival.gr/festivals/8th-chamber-music-festival/

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7TH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018

24/08, 27/08, 29/08 & 01/09/2018

The 7th Chamber Music Festival bids farewell to the Summer and welcomes Fall. This year’s festival is a musical journey through Light and Darkness. This theme is expanded and researched in four concerts.

The first concert exposes the theme of darkness and light through Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Mendelssohn’s sextet. The second concert is dedicated to our dark part, the spiritual, the unknown, the inner struggle and contemplation with works from Olivier Messiaen, Biber and Arvo Pärt. The third concert depicts the light, the outside, the impulse that reaches our senses, therefore it is a concert of works inspired by images from Debussy, Mussorgsky and Górecki. Finally, our fourth concert is a tribute to the loss of a dear friend. It is a memorial and a goodbye.

For more details use following link  http://chambermusicfestival.gr/

5TH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016

5th Chamber Music Festival

27/08, 28/08, 31/08/2016

The 5^th Minoa Palace Chamber Music Festival enlightens two special figures of the romantic second half of the 19^th century, Cesar Franck and Johannes Brahms.

Both of them were virtuosic pianists, both revered Bachian polyphony and strict structure and both valued the spirit of Classicism when others found it unfashionable. Both wrote with what we recognize today as a distinctly “romantic” voice.

Their intense interest in the chamber music area created plenty of masterpieces. Among them we chose some exceptional examples.

Franck (1822-1890)

Though musically precocious, César Franck  never became the money-making piano prodigy his father desired. After moving out of his parents’ house in Paris (where the family had moved from Liège in 1835), Franck supported himself by teaching and playing the organ. He became organist at the newly built church of St. Clotilde in 1858 and slowly acquired fame for his organ improvisations. Composition remained intermittent, however, and mostly focused on monumental, labor-intensive oratorios and operas, until a blossoming of creative energy in the late 1870s that continued until his death. This produced several symphonic poems, distinctive chamber music, important piano and organ pieces, and the Symphony in D minor, all displaying Franck’s characteristic tonal architecture, cyclical thematic transformations and intensely chromatic harmony.

Brahms (1833-1897)

Brahms was soon declared as one of the 3 B’s of the great German music and according to Robert Schumann the “successor’’ to Beethoven, a prediction that Brahms was determined to live up to. His extreme talent in composition was combined with extreme perfectionism and self-criticism, which resulted in lengthy and painful revisions of his own compositions. In contrast to the stormy, passionate works of “neo-German” composers such as Richard Wagner and Franz List, Brahms retained reverence for the classical heritage and maintained the Romantic tradition of his great predecessor, Beethoven. Although controversy developed between supporters of Brahms and the followers of Wagner in particular, Brahms was not a reactionary. He looked both backward and forward, producing innovative harmonies that prompted Arnold Schoenberg to write “Brahms the Progressive,” a 1933 essay that has influenced contemporary evaluations of the composer.