Noémi Kiss completed her studies at the Teacher Training Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in London. Her broad repertoire extends from the Renaissance to contemporary works. A frequent visitor to European festivals of early music, she has performed widely on the continent and has numerous recordings to her name. In 2007, she performed with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis, and as soloist for Mahler’s Sympho...ny No. 4 in 2008. Having graduated from the Liszt Academy, Atala Schöck spent two years as a soloist for the National Theatre of Szeged, singing roles by Mozart, Gounod and Verdi. She subsequently worked as a guest artist for various opera houses abroad, performing several years running in productions of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. She debuted in the Hungarian State Opera House in 2004 in the role of Meg Page in Falstaff. Zoltán Megyesi gained his diploma in 1997 at the Szeged Conservatory of the Liszt Academy of Music. He is a sought-after soloist for oratorios and passions, with a repertoire that includes the oratorios, masses, passions and cantatas of Monteverdi, Schütz, J. S. Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Opera Studio of the Hungarian State Opera, and is currently its soloist. In 2007, he performed with the BFO in Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis, and later as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in 2010. The English baritone Peter Harvey studied at Oxford and then at the Guildhall School of Music in London. His huge repertoire of music spanning eight centuries has been immortalised in more than 100 recordings, and he is recognised as one of the leading interpreters of the French baroque. He recently sang Bach’s cantatas with Ton Koopman at the Musikverein in Vienna and Bach’s Mass in B minor at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. He has travelled as soloist on a tour of the Far East by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and collaborated in a production of St Matthew Passion under Bernard Haitink in Boston. Bach’s cantata BWV 105 (“Lord, do not pass judgement on your servant!”) was composed in 1723 in Leipzig for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. Even among Bach’s works, it achieves the highest levels of perfection, pairing the beautiful words of an unknown librettist with the composer’s wonderful music. The highlight of the cantata, hich follows the structure of chorus – alto recitativo – soprano aria – bass recitativo – tenor aria – chorale, s the unfathomably profound and beautiful soprano aria, which portrays the anguish and tortuous doubts suffered in the dark night of the soul. Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, in which the composer pays homage to his adored idol Wagner, was composed in the years of 1881 to 83. In the first movement, Bruckner uses the sword motif from The Ring of the Nibelung as his principal theme, and this creative element lends the movement its dramatic tone. The slow second movement expresses his deep pain at the loss of Wagner, while the third is a demonic scherzo where moods alternate erratically, sometimes enigmatically, sometimes threateningly. The finale is related musically to the beginning, although the solemnity of the first movement here takes on a determined and dynamic character. The Symphony No. 7 was premièred by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Hungarian-born conductor Arthur Nikisch in 1884. Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra
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