All music is by default an indicator of its time. 20th century music reflects an era of rapid social transformations, the hopeful rise and crushing fall of ideologies and movements, the struggle to defend human dignity and diversity – but also their utter trivialisation. Contemporary music is a music of many faces, which strive to voice the new and the untold, while also turning to the old in order to transform it. It has experimented and continues to experiment with the most heterogeneous means in order to express the modern man’s soul, so sorely tried. Drawing on its musical expertise and imagination, the Ionian Festival Ensemble, whose prolific artistic activity focuses on the contemporary repertoire, has selected known and unknown pages of music from the last century, which although very different from each other, share the same quality and visionary approach.
