HUNGARIAN SYMPHONIC PANORAMA Artistic director: Károly Botvay Concert master: Béla Bánfalvi Featuring: László Fenyő – cello Mozart: Cassation in G major, K. 63 Haydn: Cello Concerto in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 Zoltán Kovács: Adagietto Sándor Veress: Four Transylvanian Dances At the age of thirteen, Mozart composed three orchestral serenades in the so-called Finalmusik genre, designed to be performed at the end of year ceremony at universities. The Cassation in G major is a similar work a...lthough there is still no consensus just what this title meant. Cassations tended to comprise of a number of short movements, usually commencing with a march. Haydn wrote his Cello Concerto in D major for the superb cellist of the Esterházy court orchestra, Anton Kraft. In the 19th century, Kraft was wrongly attributed as the work’s author and Haydn’s involvement was only clarified in 1954 when the original autograph manuscript resurfaced. Zoltán Kovács is regarded by his former composition teacher, Emil Petrovics, to be one of the most talented Hungarian composers. His Adagietto is frequently heard in the concert hall. Its title alludes to the slow movement from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, but is also related to Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night and the middle movement of Bartók’s Divertimento. The Basel Chamber Orchestra who earlier premiered Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and the Divertimento premiered Sándor Veress’s Four Transylvanian Dances in 1944 conducted by Paul Sacher. From January to March 2005, before its official opening, the Palace of Arts underwent a testing phase during which Hungarian orchestras performed almost daily, giving us not only a sense of the hall’s capabilities but also presenting a fascinating picture of Hungary’s orchestral life. The positive experiences gathered during this “spontaneous” festival spawned the concept of turning it into a permanent feature of the Palace of Arts’ concert series and it has now become an established new tradition. Thus in 2006, the series Symphonia Hungarorum – Hungarian Symphonic Panorama was created and in 2007, no less than fifteen Hungarian symphonic ensembles will represent themselves at the festival. As last year, the orchestras are free to choose their own programmes with the proviso they perform in each concert at least one 20th or 21st century Hungarian work.
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