Including Beethoven’s last symphony on a concert programme is often a headache for organisers. While insufficient in length to fill an entire evening, it represents a self-contained whole in terms of content, its composer having packed enough in to last a lifetime’s journey. This Debrecen-based orchestra has chosen perhaps the only viable route, opening the concert with a work markedly different from the symphony in both tone and genre, a composition which, with its rich melodies and capacity to... make the solo instrument sing, created the model for Romantic concertos. “Here, the harmony emerges through an overflowingly sweet and melodious filter unique in all the music of Beethoven,” wrote music historian Bence Szabolcsi. Interestingly, the soaring melodies were facilitated by changes to the violin as an instrument in the early 1800s: the fingerboard was lengthened, making it easier to play the higher positions. The work was premièred by one of the finest Viennese violinists of the time, Franz Clement, but its ascension into the standard repertoire is attributable to Joseph Joachim some three decades later. At this concert, we will hear the piece performed by Géza Hosszu-Legoczky, a musician who is descended from a Roma musical dynasty and related to the legendary György Cziffra, but who was born in Lausanne and holds Swiss and American citizenship. His musical family tree is similarly tangled: as a child prodigy, he was an outstanding pupil of the Russian school hallmarked by David Oistrakh, before going on to study under Tibor Varga, a representative of the tradition of Jenő Hubay. When still a teenager, he was taken under the wing of world-renowned pianist Martha Argerich, with whom he has performed in chamber concerts worldwide, while invitations from the Juilliard School, the Aspen Festival and Gidon Kremer, as well as joint appearances with Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin and Ruggiero Ricci, all testify to his exceptional abilities. A stage conversation under the title Prelude will precede the concert from 6.30 pm, giving ticket holders the opportunity to better familiarise themselves with the musicians and the works they will perform. Presented by: Palace of Arts
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