László Melis: Black and White – excerpts Zoltán Lengyel - piano Purcell: Suite in A minor Zoltán Jeney: Farewell to György Ligeti J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Adagio, Fugue - Allegro Ádám Kondor: Hand ball paper J. S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 - Siciliano, Presto Liszt: Berceuse (Erste Fassung, 1854) Ildikó Vékony - cimbalom Bartók: Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and piano, BB96 András Keller - violin, Dénes Várjon - piano László Melis’s work ’Black and White’ consists of pieces dance music, as its basis is a Baroque partita. Dances of later eras, like today’s trendy dance music, also appear in the work beside the usual movements. Each movement has a different set of tones, which are usually not „natural” scales. Musical humour is not missing either, putting the performer to a serious technical test in some instances. (László Melis) ’Why these kinds of music?’ – this is the question. There are some that I have been playing for a long time, and some that I have always wanted to play. There are some that are not my cup of tea, however sometimes we appreciate a bit of a change. There are some that I have always expected and still necessitate further years from me to get to the depths. And there are some that shakes me out of my routine to notice the moment when a sound is born.’ (Ildikó Vékony) The violin rhapsody is a quite peculiar case of the folk music inspiration of Bartók: all themes of the piece originate from existing folk songs, mostly form Romanian material, with some Hungarian and Ruthenian melodies. Bartók divided these into Slow and Fresh movements according to the verbunk tradition, and created a higher artistic form, which lays half way between folk song adaptations and sovereign pieces of composed music. In a 1944 transcript, Bartók shortened the Fresh movement in several instances and wrote a new ending to it. Tickets are available from the Palace of Arts box office (Phone: +36 1 555-3300), Concert&Media ticket offices (Phone: +36 1 455-9000), Libri bookshops and other known ticket offices.
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