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classical music, opera, theatre
An evening with Péter Eötvös
21 February 2020, Friday
6:30 pm - 8:35 pm
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest

Péter Eötvös

Dialog mit Mozart - Da Capo für Orchester - Hungarian première

Péter Eötvös

Reading Malevich - Hungarian première

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Péter Eötvös

Atlantis

In 2019, we celebrated the 75th birthday of this world-famous composer, conductor and pedagogue. At this concert, as the Artist of the Year, he will be taking the stage at Müpa Budapest in a dual capacity: the audience will hear him conducting three of his own works - thus with full confidence in hearing an authentic performance of these contemporary compositions.

Born in Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc) in 1944 and educated in Budapest, Péter Eötvös has returned to Hungary after residing abroad for several decades. His musical cosmos is full of ideas and discovery, and also combines - in an exciting fashion - an effort aimed at solving the problem intellectually with a carefree acceptance by the sensual experiences of the phenomena of the surrounding world. Of the three works being performed, two are some of his newer ones, while the third dates from a quarter-century ago.
His 2016 composition Dialog mit Mozart - Da Capo für Ochester, which he was commissioned to write by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg to mark the 175th anniversary of the ensemble's establishment, is a thrilling experiment in which he further develops fragments found in Mozart's sketchbook, but in a modern style. Reading Malevich is another inspiring invitation to playfulness: 'I set myself the task of transforming an image, an optical event, into music,' is how the composer describes this work. The painting in question is Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism No. 56 - its shapes and colours converted into the 2017/8 orchestral piece commissioned by the Lucerne Festival.
Closing the programme is the vast 1995 piece - one requiring a large number of performers - Atlantis. Dreamlike and hallucinatory, this musical setting of the poem by Sándor Weöres evokes a sunken continent - as an audible memento warning the listener that our civilization too could perish, completely annihilated.

The concert will be preceded at 5.30 pm in the Auditorium by a screening of András Surányi's portrait film Eötvös 75. The film is in Hungarian.
The screening will be followed at 6.30 pm by a stage conversation under the title Prelude, giving ticket holders the opportunity to better familiarise themselves with the musicians and the works they will perform.
Admission to both the film screening and the Prelude stage conversation is free of charge, but subject to advance registration.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Conductor:

Péter Eötvös

Featuring:

baritone Zsolt Haja
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
cimbalom Miklós Lukács
child soprano Hanna Kussinszky (Hungarian Radio Children's Choir - choirmaster: Soma Dinyés)
  • We wish to inform you that in the event that Müpa Budapest's underground garage and outdoor car park are operating at full capacity, it is advisable to plan for increased waiting times when you arrive. In order to avoid this, we recommend that you depart for our events in time, so that you you can find the ideal parking spot quickly and smoothly and arrive for our performance in comfort. The Müpa Budapest underground garage gates will be operated by an automatic number plate recognition system. Parking is free of charge for visitors with tickets to any of our paid performances on that given day. The detailed parking policy of Müpa Budapest is available here.

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