According to the experts Claude Debussy created his most modern and exciting score when he composed ballet music based on the search for a lost tennis ball. We will never know whether Jeux really could have been the beginning of a new period for Debussy, but Zoltán Kocsis will certainly show that it is a wonderful composition worth discovering. Few people can match his deep feeling for and understanding of the art of the French composer. The Bartók programme within the concert timed to coincide... with the birthday of Béla Bartók could be a full programme in itself. In addition to the popular Violin Rhapsodies it features two basic works of 20th century music. A few years ago it was still necessary to point out the exceptional merits of the Four Orchestral Pieces. Today (thanks to the revelatory interpretations of Zoltán Kocsis and Péter Eötvös) the work occupies its rightful place in the repertoire and in the hearts of concertgoers. For a long while Cantata Profana enjoyed the respect due to major works, but conductors seem to have neglected it in recent years. Here is the opportunity to realise that life is not worth living without such a masterpiece. We will be helped in this discovery not only by the many outstanding musicians but also by Szabolcs Brickner who scored one of the most brilliant victories of the last decade when he won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in May 2008.
Parking information
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