UMZE Ensemble: BABE(urope)L

8 December 2024. 4:00 pm
Budapest Music Center - Concert Hall
1094 Budapest, Mátyás utca 8.

Peter Breughel's famous painting of the Tower of Babel, made around 1563 and preserved in two versions, captures the moment in the biblical story when the workers, no longer able to understand each other's speech, are setting up the columns on the leaning tower, which is apparently about to collapse at any moment. Are we here and now building the Tower of Babel, or a united Europe of peoples who do not necessarily speak each other's language, but at least understand each other? Or a Hungary of people who speak many languages and understand each other? UMZE Ensemble's concert explores the influence of French, Hungarian and, indirectly, countless other cultures through the medium of music. Their guest will be the internationally renowned saxophone virtuoso Nicolas Arsenijevic, who will perform the world premiere of a piece by Péter Tornyai for saxophone solo and chamber ensemble, alongside works by Bruno Mantovani and Michael Jarrell. In addition to Csanád Kedves' Next Step, we can also hear a new version of Máté Balogh's 2014 composition BABE(urope)L - Hommage à P. Breughel, specially reworked for the musicians of UMZE.

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