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Early and contemporary music, historically informed.

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Early and contemporary music, one practice.

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The ensemble

Cappella Atenea is a music ensemble founded by graduates of Higher Music Academies and Universities in Greece and abroad. Its goal is to bring early and contemporary music closer together through historically informed performance.

Historically informed performance asks how music was heard by the people it was written for: the instruments, the size of the group, the articulation and the rhetoric of a phrase. Cappella Atenea brings the same questions to music written now, so that early and contemporary works can be heard as parts of one practice rather than as separate specialisms.

In the concert hall this means programmes built across centuries — a divertimento by Mozart beside Bartók and a contemporary Greek work, or Telemann’s moral cantatas in dialogue with Vivaldi.

Across time

The composers in our programmes, 1659 to today.

Each line spans a composer’s lifetime. Thanos Margetis is a contemporary Greek composer.

  1. Henry Purcell1659–1695 · Musica Sacra

  2. Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741 · Affetti

  3. Georg Philipp Telemann1681–1767 · Affetti

  4. Johann Sebastian Bach1685–1750 · Musica Sacra

  5. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi1710–1736 · Musica Sacra

  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791 · Fragments of Light

  7. Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827 · Résonances

  8. Robert Schumann1810–1856 · Résonances

  9. Johannes Brahms1833–1897 · Résonances

  10. Edvard Grieg1843–1907 · Résonances

  11. Spyridon Samaras1861–1917 · Résonances

  12. Maurice Ravel1875–1937 · Résonances

  13. Béla Bartók1881–1945 · Fragments of Light

  14. Manolis Kalomiris1883–1962 · Résonances

  15. Olivier Messiaen1908–1992 · Résonances

  16. Benjamin Britten1913–1976 · Résonances

  17. Thanos Margetiscontemporary · Fragments of Light

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The programmes