one interval
Conductor:
Featuring:
Erkel
Hunyadi László Overture
Erkel
Hunyadi László – ‘Van végre néhány nyugodt pillanat’ (At last, a few calm moments) (László‘s aria from Act 1)
Erkel
Hunyadi László – Palotás (palace dance) from Act 3
Erkel
Hunyadi László – ‘Szép reménysugár’ (Beautiful ray of hope) (Erzsébet‘s ‘La Grange’ aria from Act 2)
Kodály
Háry János – Intermezzo
Kodály
The Spinning Room – ‘A csitári hegyek alatt’ (Below the mountains of Csitár) (The duet of the Young Man and Young Girl)
Erkel
Dózsa György – Weapon dance from Act 2
Erkel
Bánk bán – ‘Élt egyszer régen két kis madár’ (Once there lived two little birds) (Melinda‘s aria from the Tisza riverbank scene in Act 3)
Erkel
Bánk bán – ‘Hazám, hazám’ (My homeland, my homeland) (Bánk’s aria from Act 2)
J. Strauss
Der Zigeunerbaron – Overture
J. Strauss
Der Zigeunerbaron – Barinkay's entrance
J. Strauss
Der Zigeunerbaron – ‘Wer uns getraut’
Lehár
Gold and Silver – Waltz, Op. 79
Lehár
Die lustige Witwe – Vilja-Lied
Kálmán
Gräfin Mariza – Wenn es Abend wird (Grüß mir mein Wien)
J. Strauss Jr.
Die Fledermaus – Csárdás
J. Strauss Jr.
Long Live the Hungarian! – polka, Op. 332
Ádám Medveczky has taken the helm of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra many times since launching his conducting career in 1974 and enjoys a deep friendship with the ensemble. Although it was our wish to celebrate this 50-year anniversary with a special concert, illness on the part of the maestro sadly forces us to cancel the performance. As a token of our affection for him, we will still perform the programme he put together unchanged, with the orchestra playing under the baton of Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini, a recurring guest for some years, and Orsolya Hajnalka Rőser and Gergely Boncsér serving as the soloists.
Ádám Medveczky kicked off his conducting career after winning second prize at the first Hungarian Television International Conducting Competition in 1974, finishing behind Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi. An outstanding figure in the world of the Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian musical life as a whole, he has conducted more than sixty different operas and countless concerts over the course of his career. This winner of Hungary’s most prestigious awards and recognitions is particularly fond of and dedicated to conducting pieces by Hungarian composers – Liszt, Erkel, Bartók and Kodály. On the programme summarising his life’s work this evening are arias, songs and orchestral excerpts from several dramatic works by Erkel and Kodály, as well as from popular operettas, which have never been far from his heart either. Adding their voices will be two outstanding opera singers: Orsolya Hajnalka Rőser and Gergely Boncsér. Taking the podium at this concert organised in Medveczky’s honour will be Christoph Campestrini, for years a regular guest conductor with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra.
Presented by: MÁV Symphony Orchestra
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