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Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG 2012

After the unveiling of the new Mercedes AMG car, the German brand has published the first photos of the fast version of the SL-Class, the SL63 AMG.
The Mercedes SL63 AMG debuted at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year and is the most powerful Mercedes in the SL range. Let's remember that its form is completely new and seems to have received aesthetic influences, from both the smaller SLK and the SLS AMG. Its shape is overall more square than before, while the mask and the front lighting bodies make an impression. The interior is also beautiful, where, depending on the version, the skin, aluminum and wood are harmoniously combined.

From a mechanical point of view, equipped with their M157 twin-turbo V8 5,5 liter affords 537 horsepower. The weight of the car has been reduced by 125 kilos compared to its predecessor, since mainly aluminum and magnesium have been used as construction materials. The 0-100 km/h reaches them in just 4,3 δλ.(4,2 with the additional AMG upgrade package). End, its official presentation will take place in March at the Geneva exhibition.

Source : autotriti.gr
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Papadiamantis and for the 2012

Performances based on his texts continue in theaters inside and outside of Athens

If the 2011 it was dedicated to Alexandros Papadiamantis, due to the centenary of his death (3/1/1911), the 2012 it seems to be a continuation of the anniversary. At least this is proven through the ever-increasing number of performances staged on the Athenian stages or repeated in and outside the capital, as is the festival "Dream on the wave" which will (again)is premiering, this time at the Acropolis Theater, at 13 Of March, with Thanasis Sarandos. A little earlier, at 3 "Dark Tales" begins in March, a performance based on three dramatized short stories of his edited and directed by Stamatis Bandouna.

"I think especially in this day and age, with the economic but above all the moral crisis, the search for the lost Greek identity is what stimulates the viewer above all. He wants to see and hear the Greek language. He wants to remember that in addition to debt, Greece has also produced people who touched our souls very deeply", says Thanasis Sarandos who directs "Dream on the Wave" and performs the monologue. "The world seeks the purity and truth of Papadiamantis", adds as his experience of the Skiathite poet begins with his engagement with the "American, which he uploaded three years ago, a show that recently completed its cycle. “I noticed that if the audience was older in the beginning, little by little, more and more young people began to come".

Takis Chrysikakos is aimed at viewers of all ages as well as high school students, through "The flower of Gialos", one of the top short stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis turned into a theatrical monologue by Errico Belier. The performance directed by Mania Papadimitriou, has taken to the stage of the Anesis theatre, and will be played for two more weekends (25-26/2 and 3-4/3, at 18.00). "We also give some shows for high school students, who also taught him. I admit that to such a difficult audience as teenagers, not even a whisper is heard. Even their teachers are surprised by the behavior of the students", says the actor who bows to Papadiamantis' linguistic richness "with the 13.500 words, at a time when young people talk to few". And in times as difficult as our current ones, I feel like I'm resisting by letting the richness of Papadiamantis be heard".

Since its inception, the theater season 2011-2012 defined by a series of works by Papadiamantis: Starting with "Fonissa" which Stathis Livathinos chose to direct at the Kefallinia Street theater, with Betty Arvanitis. "Nostalgo" is proposed by the Free Expression stage, directed by Dimos Avdeliodi with Mary Inglesi, while Antonis and Konstantinos Koufalis continue, until 28 February, with the "Poor and Saints", a compilation of his adapted short stories (at the Vasilakou theater).

End, "The merchants of the nations" who went up to the House of Letters and Arts, they moved to Thessaloniki and are now performed at the Avlaia theater. The performance of the OPERA group is directed by Thodoris Abazis "Alithinos, he had devalued money and material values. Fighter for Greek morals and Greek identity, with a political reason, still expresses our time today. Besides", reminds Thanasis Sarandos, "had experienced the bankruptcy during Trikoupis and the waste in the preparation of the Olympiad". Ο times o manners…..

Source : tovima.gr

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Martha Argerich: A living legend of the piano at the Athens Concert Hall

Undoubtedly dominant among the great pianists of the 20th century and one of the most shocking performers of recent...
50 years, η Μάρθα Άργκεριχ, she has the world at her feet and the piano at her command: turns it into an eerie cascade of colors, she has a disarmingly carnal and tender relationship with him and her sound combines mysterious clarity,  rhythmic intensity and spontaneity that is riveting.

Martha Argerich comes to Athens with the musical "family" she has created for years, with members of the great star soloists, accomplished performers, but also young musicians who have stood out. Misha Maisky (cello), Steven Kovacevic (piano), Yuri Basmet (viola and conducting), Reno Capyson and Lia Petrova (violin), Dora Bakopoulou, Akane Sakai, Lily Maisky, Alexander Mogilevsky, Julia Zaikina (piano), Alexandros Kapelis (piano), Takis Kapogiannis (contrabass), Sergey Nakariakov (trumpet), Dimitris Desyllas and Andreas Farmakis(crust), participate and collaborate with Argerich in three concerts with music from the 18th century, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The camera, Orchestra of the Friends of Music conducted by Yuri Basmet on the first day and Gerard Corsten on the following two.

The three-day program includes:

works of Saint-Saëns (Septet for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, work 65), Schumann(Quintet for piano and strings, work 44), Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat major K364) and Shostakovich (Concerto no. 1 for piano and trumpet, work 35) on Saturday 10/3, Mozart(Andante & Variations for piano four hands, K501 and Piano Concerto in B flat major, KV 456)), Ravel ('My mother the goose' for four hands), Shostakovich(Concertino for two pianos, work 94), Schumann(Fantasy pieces, work 73), Kabalevsky(Concerto for piano and orchestra no.4, work 99(of Prague) and Haydn(Cello Concerto No.1 in C major Hob.VIIb.1) on Sunday 11/3 and Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring for four pianos and two percussion instruments) and Bach(Concerto for two pianos and orchestra BWV 1060, Concerto for three pianos and orchestra, BWV 1064 and Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra BWV1065 on Monday 12/3.

Great sponsor of Camerata, Orchestra of Friends of Music for the period 2011-2013 is the Alexandros S. Charitable Foundation. Onassis.

Argerich resides on the high peaks of the world of virtuosos. Her fans are running out of superlatives to talk about her, her competitors turn into fanatical fans and wait patiently outside her dressing rooms. In her concerts, one sees scenes from other places and times: respectable gentlemen running down the aisles with bouquets in hand, famous musicians to applaud wildly from their stands, choleric critics to surrender with awkward smiles.

Argerich has qualities that are rarely combined in one person: pianist with unimaginable technical agility, charismatic woman with an enigmatic life, unassuming performer whose mother tongue is music and that's what makes her stand out. There are many great pianists who do wonders, but few have mastered that uninhibited naturalness in expression that allows them to inhabit the music rather than perform it.

Born in Buenos Aires, made her first appearance in 5 of years and up to 16 it had won her first prizes in major European competitions. At first he followed the usual international career, but as it matured it turned into a universe, to a model and "legislator", unpredictable, generous, indomitable, with a volcanic temperament and surprising attitudes by the conventional standards of the world of great performers. "A wonderful painting without a frame", as Daniel Barenboim says about her.

Martha Argerich's mature identity emerged from a paradoxical combination: indifference to reputation, money and career and an excruciating loneliness she feels when she is alone on stage. On this ground she created institutions to collaborate with her distinguished colleagues, to support and highlight young musicians and build musical "families".

With her signature it is made by 2002 το Martha Argerich Project, which lasts 3 weeks, as part of the Lugano Festival, where the "family" gathers every year with its permanent and new members and in Buenos Aires, from 1999, the Martha Argerich International Competition with herself as the president of the jury. From the same year, the Martha Argerich Music Festival takes place in southern Japan and in Lucerne, Switzerland, in collaboration with Claudio Abado, the piano days and workshops for the promotion of new pianists.

Like other legendary performers – Pablo Casals, Vladimir Horowitz- Argerich never got over stage fright. "There are times when I have terrible panic attacks, the most incredible things pass through my mind, a full hall, it's scary. My knees are shaking, i have chills, I feel like I'm going to collapse", she confessed in the excellent portrait made of her by the French director Georges Casot, the 2002 and is released on DVD by the Medici Arts company.

That is why her solo recitals are rare,  that's why she often hides behind her rich and thick hair on stage and that's why she "converses" with the composers when she plays and isolates herself in the dialogue between them: “I prefer not to joke with Schumann, but i think he likes me. With Chopin it is not always easy, he's probably a little jealous of me. Prokofiev loves me very much, he never sets traps for me".

With a shock began her relationship with the piano: it was 6 years old and her mother took her to the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires, in the piano concerto no. 4 by Beethoven with Claudio Arau, "I had fallen asleep and suddenly I heard the trills in the second part, I shuddered, an electric shock went through me, I refuse to play this concerto, I'm afraid what will happen, it's so important to me".

In 9 of, before playing a Mozart concerto, he knelt down and thought: “if I'm wrong on a note, i will die". Perfectionism has followed her ever since. "I always doubt it, I'm always unsure, i'm looking. If one is too satisfied or abandoned to the routine, it's a disaster".

Misha Maisky, who has been working with her since 2002 in Lugano he says that “working with Martha Argerich is like life: it is not easy, she can be very unpredictable and very irritating. But it is what,what more wonderful thing can happen to you. She is unbelievably gifted, to an almost desperate extent".

And the American critic, Alex Ross notes that in Argerich's performances one gets the feeling, "how the pianist abandons the idea of ​​a grand performance and is as if playing for herself and slowly emerges a rare performance. It saves many composers from the usual excesses of virtuosos and restores their essence, makes them sound new, contemporaries, with bold tones. The way the piano responds to Argerich's touch is a natural phenomenon that defies interpretation, it is like the surface, a revelation".

Source : culturenow.gr

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Papadiamantis and for the 2012

Performances based on his texts continue in theaters inside and outside of Athens

If the 2011 it was dedicated to Alexandros Papadiamantis, due to the centenary of his death (3/1/1911), the 2012 it seems to be a continuation of the anniversary. At least this is proven through the ever-increasing number of performances staged on the Athenian stages or repeated in and outside the capital, as is the festival "Dream on the wave" which will (again)is premiering, this time at the Acropolis Theater, at 13 Of March, with Thanasis Sarandos. A little earlier, at 3 "Dark Tales" begins in March, a performance based on three dramatized short stories of his edited and directed by Stamatis Bandouna.

"I think especially in this day and age, with the economic but above all the moral crisis, the search for the lost Greek identity is what stimulates the viewer above all. He wants to see and hear the Greek language. He wants to remember that in addition to debt, Greece has also produced people who touched our souls very deeply", says Thanasis Sarandos who directs "Dream on the Wave" and performs the monologue. "The world seeks the purity and truth of Papadiamantis", adds as his experience of the Skiathite poet begins with his engagement with the "American, which he uploaded three years ago, a show that recently completed its cycle. “I noticed that if the audience was older in the beginning, little by little, more and more young people began to come".

Takis Chrysikakos is aimed at viewers of all ages as well as high school students, through "The flower of Gialos", one of the top short stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis turned into a theatrical monologue by Errico Belier. The performance directed by Mania Papadimitriou, has taken to the stage of the Anesis theatre, and will be played for two more weekends (25-26/2 and 3-4/3, at 18.00). "We also give some shows for high school students, who also taught him. I admit that to such a difficult audience as teenagers, not even a whisper is heard. Even their teachers are surprised by the behavior of the students", says the actor who bows to Papadiamantis' linguistic richness "with the 13.500 words, at a time when young people talk to few". And in times as difficult as our current ones, I feel like I'm resisting by letting the richness of Papadiamantis be heard".

Since its inception, the theater season 2011-2012 defined by a series of works by Papadiamantis: Starting with "Fonissa" which Stathis Livathinos chose to direct at the Kefallinia Street theater, with Betty Arvanitis. "Nostalgo" is proposed by the Free Expression stage, directed by Dimos Avdeliodi with Mary Inglesi, while Antonis and Konstantinos Koufalis continue, until 28 February, with the "Poor and Saints", a compilation of his adapted short stories (at the Vasilakou theater).

End, "The merchants of the nations" who went up to the House of Letters and Arts, they moved to Thessaloniki and are now performed at the Avlaia theater. The performance of the OPERA group is directed by Thodoris Abazis "Alithinos, he had devalued money and material values. Fighter for Greek morals and Greek identity, with a political reason, still expresses our time today. Besides", reminds Thanasis Sarandos, "had experienced the bankruptcy during Trikoupis and the waste in the preparation of the Olympiad". Ο times o manners…..

Source : tovima.gr

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Martha Argerich: A living legend of the piano at the Athens Concert Hall

Undoubtedly dominant among the great pianists of the 20th century and one of the most shocking performers of recent...
50 years, η Μάρθα Άργκεριχ, she has the world at her feet and the piano at her command: turns it into an eerie cascade of colors, she has a disarmingly carnal and tender relationship with him and her sound combines mysterious clarity,  rhythmic intensity and spontaneity that is riveting.

Martha Argerich comes to Athens with the musical "family" she has created for years, with members of the great star soloists, accomplished performers, but also young musicians who have stood out. Misha Maisky (cello), Steven Kovacevic (piano), Yuri Basmet (viola and conducting), Reno Capyson and Lia Petrova (violin), Dora Bakopoulou, Akane Sakai, Lily Maisky, Alexander Mogilevsky, Julia Zaikina (piano), Alexandros Kapelis (piano), Takis Kapogiannis (contrabass), Sergey Nakariakov (trumpet), Dimitris Desyllas and Andreas Farmakis(crust), participate and collaborate with Argerich in three concerts with music from the 18th century, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The camera, Orchestra of the Friends of Music conducted by Yuri Basmet on the first day and Gerard Corsten on the following two.

The three-day program includes:

works of Saint-Saëns (Septet for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, work 65), Schumann(Quintet for piano and strings, work 44), Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat major K364) and Shostakovich (Concerto no. 1 for piano and trumpet, work 35) on Saturday 10/3, Mozart(Andante & Variations for piano four hands, K501 and Piano Concerto in B flat major, KV 456)), Ravel ('My mother the goose' for four hands), Shostakovich(Concertino for two pianos, work 94), Schumann(Fantasy pieces, work 73), Kabalevsky(Concerto for piano and orchestra no.4, work 99(of Prague) and Haydn(Cello Concerto No.1 in C major Hob.VIIb.1) on Sunday 11/3 and Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring for four pianos and two percussion instruments) and Bach(Concerto for two pianos and orchestra BWV 1060, Concerto for three pianos and orchestra, BWV 1064 and Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra BWV1065 on Monday 12/3.

Great sponsor of Camerata, Orchestra of Friends of Music for the period 2011-2013 is the Alexandros S. Charitable Foundation. Onassis.

Argerich resides on the high peaks of the world of virtuosos. Her fans are running out of superlatives to talk about her, her competitors turn into fanatical fans and wait patiently outside her dressing rooms. In her concerts, one sees scenes from other places and times: respectable gentlemen running down the aisles with bouquets in hand, famous musicians to applaud wildly from their stands, choleric critics to surrender with awkward smiles.

Argerich has qualities that are rarely combined in one person: pianist with unimaginable technical agility, charismatic woman with an enigmatic life, unassuming performer whose mother tongue is music and that's what makes her stand out. There are many great pianists who do wonders, but few have mastered that uninhibited naturalness in expression that allows them to inhabit the music rather than perform it.

Born in Buenos Aires, made her first appearance in 5 of years and up to 16 it had won her first prizes in major European competitions. At first he followed the usual international career, but as it matured it turned into a universe, to a model and "legislator", unpredictable, generous, indomitable, with a volcanic temperament and surprising attitudes by the conventional standards of the world of great performers. "A wonderful painting without a frame", as Daniel Barenboim says about her.

Martha Argerich's mature identity emerged from a paradoxical combination: indifference to reputation, money and career and an excruciating loneliness she feels when she is alone on stage. On this ground she created institutions to collaborate with her distinguished colleagues, to support and highlight young musicians and build musical "families".

With her signature it is made by 2002 το Martha Argerich Project, which lasts 3 weeks, as part of the Lugano Festival, where the "family" gathers every year with its permanent and new members and in Buenos Aires, from 1999, the Martha Argerich International Competition with herself as the president of the jury. From the same year, the Martha Argerich Music Festival takes place in southern Japan and in Lucerne, Switzerland, in collaboration with Claudio Abado, the piano days and workshops for the promotion of new pianists.

Like other legendary performers – Pablo Casals, Vladimir Horowitz- Argerich never got over stage fright. "There are times when I have terrible panic attacks, the most incredible things pass through my mind, a full hall, it's scary. My knees are shaking, i have chills, I feel like I'm going to collapse", she confessed in the excellent portrait made of her by the French director Georges Casot, the 2002 and is released on DVD by the Medici Arts company.

That is why her solo recitals are rare,  that's why she often hides behind her rich and thick hair on stage and that's why she "converses" with the composers when she plays and isolates herself in the dialogue between them: “I prefer not to joke with Schumann, but i think he likes me. With Chopin it is not always easy, he's probably a little jealous of me. Prokofiev loves me very much, he never sets traps for me".

With a shock began her relationship with the piano: it was 6 years old and her mother took her to the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires, in the piano concerto no. 4 by Beethoven with Claudio Arau, "I had fallen asleep and suddenly I heard the trills in the second part, I shuddered, an electric shock went through me, I refuse to play this concerto, I'm afraid what will happen, it's so important to me".

In 9 of, before playing a Mozart concerto, he knelt down and thought: “if I'm wrong on a note, i will die". Perfectionism has followed her ever since. "I always doubt it, I'm always unsure, i'm looking. If one is too satisfied or abandoned to the routine, it's a disaster".

Misha Maisky, who has been working with her since 2002 in Lugano he says that “working with Martha Argerich is like life: it is not easy, she can be very unpredictable and very irritating. But it is what,what more wonderful thing can happen to you. She is unbelievably gifted, to an almost desperate extent".

And the American critic, Alex Ross notes that in Argerich's performances one gets the feeling, "how the pianist abandons the idea of ​​a grand performance and is as if playing for herself and slowly emerges a rare performance. It saves many composers from the usual excesses of virtuosos and restores their essence, makes them sound new, contemporaries, with bold tones. The way the piano responds to Argerich's touch is a natural phenomenon that defies interpretation, it is like the surface, a revelation".

Source : culturenow.gr

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Man of the year Sakis Rouvas

Awarded for his contribution to the "Hope" club

The man of the year award was given to Sakis Rouvas in Cyprus and the singer could not hide his emotion.

He thanked from the bottom of his heart those who awarded him for his contribution to the club "Hope" for children with cancer.

"It is very important for me to receive this award in Cyprus from people who know well what difficulty means… I understand that you don't want to reward me but the offer.. », he stated.

However , as he said, he would rather not be there receiving such an award because it means there are children suffering in hospitals. So do their parents.

Source : newsbeast.gr

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Αποκάλυψη για το νέο 3θυρο Audi A3

Διέρρευσαν στο internet οι πρώτες εικόνες του νέου 3θυρου Α3. Aπό αυτές προκύπτει πως το μικρομεσαίο Audi αποκτά ακόμα πιο δυναμική και μοντέρνα εικόνα. Ας το δούμε, λίγο πριν το επίσημο ντεμπούτο του στη Γενεύη.
Στο διαδίκτυο διέρρευσαν οι πρώτες επίσημες εικόνες του καινούριου A3 σε μορφή παραγωγής. Το μικρομεσαίο Audi δεν έχει αλλάξει δραματικά, υιοθετώντας όμως ακόμα πιο δυναμικό ύφος και πολλά στοιχεία που το κάνουν να δείχνει ιδιαίτερα μοντέρνο. In fact, ειδικά αυτή η 3θυρη έκδοση αμαξώματος του διαθέτει και αρεκτά νεανικό προφίλ. In each case, θυμίζουμε πως το νέο Α3 θα έχει στη γκάμα του και 5θυρες (Sportback) publications, ενώ θα το δούμε τόσο σε κάμπριο όσο και σε σεντάν, με βάση το περσινό πρωτότυπο Α3 Concept.

Aπό τεχνολογικής άποψης, έχουμε ξανατονίσει πως το καινούριο Audi A3 θα «πατά» σε εντελώς νέα πλατφόρμα που εξελίχθηκε για περισσότερα από ένα μοντέλα στους κύκλους του ομίλου VW, με την ονομασία MQB.

Σε ότι έχει να κάνει με τους κινητήρες του αυτοκινήτου, είναι λίγο νωρίς για ασφαλή συμπεράσματα. Ωστόσο εκτός απροόπτου, στη βάση της γκάμας του Α1 θα δούμε τον νέο TFSI 1,2 liter, with performance 105 horses. Immediately after, he will follow 1,4 TFSI possibly in upgraded performance 130 and 160 horses. At 2 liters, there will be again the 2,0 TFSI with performance between 210 and 250 horses, while for the top S3, the power will again be at 265 horsepower. A very important element is Audi's intention to bring the Start system as standard in all engines&Stop, so as to further ensure lower emissions and limited consumption. The diesel engines will be similarly developed in the new A3 1,6 and 2,0 liter.

Source : autotriti.gr

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