HUNGARIAN SYMPHONIC PANORAMA Conductor: Kálmán Berkes Featuring Joanna Kamenarska – violin Wagner: Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod Bartók: Two Portraits, op. 5 György Kurtág: Messages, op. 34 Dvorák: Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88 Bartók described in a letter how composed his “idealized, otherworldly and intimate” portrait of the girl he loved, violinist Stefi Geyer, as if in a narcotic dream, which later became the first movement of his Two Portraits (no surprise that the programmers have placed Wagner’s “love magic” from Tristan before it.) The young Bulgarian lady violin soloist this evening studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum. György Kurtág celebrates his 84th birthday on February 19th 2010 and the ensemble pay their homage. Kurtág began writing for large orchestra in 1994 and the fruit was this cycle of brief, terse movements. After the break, we hear Dvorak’s happy, melodic symphony, a pleasing contrast with the dense music of the first half.
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