Two livecasts in one week, in the spirit of anniversaries

2011. February 16.

The website of the Palace of Arts will provide live concert coverage again: the audience will have an opportunity to watch from their homes the 25th jubilee recital of the Hungarian National Choir on February 17, 2011, and three days later a concert celebrating György Kurtág’s 85th birthday.

The festive program of the Hungarian National Choir will include Stravinsky’s Les Noces which amazingly combines percussion and piano, Liebeslieder-Walzer from Brahms with four-handed piano accompaniment, as well as Carl Orff’s famous cantata Carmina Burana in a special version written for four pianos.
On February 20, another great experience is awaiting those who visit Müpa or the website www.mupa.hu. The concert dedicated to the memory of Ildikó Vékony will be built around the pieces having a special importance in the master’s life. In addition to his first international success Messages of the Late R. V. Troussova, two Kurtág pieces recognized by prestigious international awards Grabstein für Stephan and Double Concerto will also be performed. The Songs to Poems by Anna Akhmatova will feature that Natalia Zagorinskaya to whom György Kurtág dedicated his work, and the celebratory program will end by Stele, believed to be one of the composer’s “most friendly” pieces premiered by Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna, with Claudio Abbado conducting.

16.02.2011.