Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis Featuring: Dezső Ránki – piano Dohnányi: Festival Overture, op. 31 Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3 and 10 Pál Kadosa: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 47 Bartók: Kossuth – symphonic poem Kodály: The Peacock – Variations on a Hungarian folksong The Metropolitan Orchestra – predecessor of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra gave its debut concert on April 5th 1923 at the Pest Vigadó under the baton of its founding conductor Dezső Bor. After Goldmark’s Sakunta...la overture, they performed Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony followed by two extracts from Berlioz’s opera Benvenuto Cellini. After this came Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and the evening concluded with Svendsen’s composition Paris Carnival. This evening’s birthday concert features four Hungarian and an “honorary” Hungarian composer, of which Ernő Dohnányi’s Festival Overture and Bartók’s Kossuth Symphony the National Philharmonic recorded on CD last year.
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