Béla Bartók passed away 70 years ago in New York, on 26 September 1945. At this memorial concert, a piece he wrote for orchestra in America features alongside three new Hungarian works. "My love is not the pale moon at night which looks dreamily into the water below,” begins the first song in the cycle Bartók composed in 1916 (op. 15). It is from certain elements of this piece - a harmonic phrase or motif - that the seeds of a new composition by Gyula Fekete germinated. Péter Tornyai emplo...ys the orchestral apparatus of Bartók's Concerto, while the beginning of the three-movement double concerto by László Dubrovay recalls in the memory of the listener a melodic formula "descending from the heavens” that unfolds in the Bartók manner. The concerto to be played here by two exceptionally gifted musicians - Sándor Jávorkai and Ádám Jávorkai - is the third work by the composer (after his String Quartet No. 3 and String Symphony) which is dedicated to the memory of Bartók.
Aural memories - phrases recalling earlier times or his own works, or everyday musical actualities - rise to the surface in Bartók's orchestral Concerto. This wonderful piece was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, the one-time director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Its first performance - according to an eyewitness at the première, was "an immediate, huge success. Waiting in the green room for the well-wishers crowding Bartók to depart, I asked him: What would you like to do now? The answer, coming from Bartók's mouth, had a decidedly amusing effect: Let's drink a litre of wine!”
Presented by: Hungarian Radio Music Groups
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