Byzantine Chant of Thessaloniki: Petros Papaemmanouil & the Philokallia Ensemble
This concert presents the rich Byzantine musical tradition of Thessaloniki, performed by the city’s prominent protopsaltis, Petros Papaemmanouil. The program features early chants from Thessaloniki’s monasteries alongside works by the city’s great Byzantine masters, including Athanasios Karamanis, Charilaos Taliadoros, and others. During the concert, you will also hear a selection of contemporary arrangements of Byzantine music by Thessaloniki composer T. Papakonstantinou (The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), rendered by the Philokallia Ensemble.
Performing:
Petros Papaemmanouil (Greece) - psaltis
Silva Morasten (Czech Republic) - solo voice
Philokallia Ensemble, artistic director: Marios Christou
About the Archaion Kallos festival:
Once again, the Philokallia association invites you to the Archaion Kallos International Festival of Orthodox Music. Do not miss this beautiful spiritual and musical experience. In its literal sense, 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,” that is to say, the beauty which man beheld in Paradise and which he experienced after Creation. The Philokallia Association (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 the association perceives 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.
The festival is held under the auspices of
the Minister of Culture, Oto Klempíř,
the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Mr. Dinos Konstantinou,
the Mayor of the Prague 2 Municipal District, Jan Korseska
Important:
- No intermission
- Dress code: casual
- Program subject to change
- The concert is held under the auspices of the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Dinos Konstantinou
and with the support of the Embassy of Greece in Prague
Check concerts in Prague´s Rudolfinum.
