Featuring: Nemanja Radulović – violin Conductor: Domonkos Héja Emil Petrovics: Symphony No. 2 Rimski-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, op. 34 Sarasate: Gypsy Songs Ravel: Bolero The first work on the programme is performed to mark the seventy seventh birthday of the composer Emil Petrovics. His creative fantasy was fuelled by his love of literature and he has always seemed most comfortable expressing himself through vocal works. He only composed his second symphony some four decades af...ter the first. He says that the Symphony No. 2 which he completed in 2001, is about human struggles, doubts and problems, expressed in his own Hungarian musical language. Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov and Pablo de Sarasate were exact contemporaries and in the two orchestral works heard tonight, both set Spanish melodies and dances. Ida Rubinstein commissioned the French composer Maurice Ravel to write a ballet with a Spanish theme. One evening, in the summer of 1928, Ravel sat down and with the finger of one hand, banged out an interesting melody. “Don’t you think that there is something rather stubborn in the character of this melody?”, he asked his friend. “By increasing the orchestral sonority, I am trying to repeat it as many times as possible without variations.” Thus Bolero was born. Tonight’s soloist is the Serbian born violinist who now lives in France, Nemanja Radulović. He celebrates his twenty second birthday in 2007 but has already caused a stir in musical circles with a number of competition victories. 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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