Hungarian Classical Music Day: Gábor Takács-Nagy & Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

30 May 2024, 7:30 pm
Liszt Academy - Grand Hall
1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc tér 8.

The spirit of Zoltán Kocsis frames the season of the National Philharmonic Orchestra. In November, a concert will commemorate the anniversary of his death, while at the end of May, on his birthday - the day he performed at the National Philharmonic Orchestra's charity concert every year - the Orchestra and the Liszt Academy will celebrate the Day of Hungarian Classical Music, in a bid to create a tradition, to cherish old values and encourage the birth of new ones.

Lajos Huszár's work as a composer combines tradition with the tools of modernity. Between 1994 and 1998, he wrote an opera entitled The Silence, based on the story of Béla Balázs, and his current work is an adaptation of an excerpt from the opera. Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, written around 1907-1908 but premiered only after his death in 1958, was inspired by the young composer's unrequited love for Stefi Geyer. Ernő Dohnányi's Ruralia Hungarica, a series of Hungarian folk songs, is an orchestrated version of five of the seven movements of the original piano version, first performed in 1924.

Kristóf Baráti is one of the most important Hungarian violinists of our time, and his art is enthusiastically celebrated around the world. The vocal soloists of the concert, Adrienn Miksch, Andrea Meláth and Máté Fülep, are outstanding representatives of the Hungarian vocal scene. Gábor Takács-Nagy became world-famous as the founding primarius of the Takács String Quartet, but later gained recognition as a conductor not only in Hungary but also in the most important music centres of Europe.