Conductor: Zoltán Rácz Featuring: Gábor Csalog – piano, Gergely Ittzés – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Keller String Quartet, Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis (artistic directors: Tamás Bubnó, János Mezei) György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre Ramifications String Quartet No. 2 Etudes for Piano: No. 15, White on White No. 12, Entrelacs No. 4, Fanfares No. 2, Cordes à vide No. 14, Coloana infinita Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Chamber Ensemble Clocks and Cloud...s “The Palace of Arts and the New Hungarian Music Society now present an Hommage à Ligeti concert for the third time, this time coinciding with the composer’s birthday. The aim of the series is to perform the remarkably rich oeuvre which György Ligeti left for us and to make it understandable for Hungarian musical life and audience, which we did not do sufficiently when he was alive. Ligeti heard the first concert – admittedly only from a recording – but since his death on June 12th 2006, we have had to confront this challenge without him of performing his works according to his original intentions. In assembling these programmes, an important consideration was for each concert to be devoted to a particular phase of his life. In the focus of the 2008 concert are works which were written around the turn of the sixties and seventies in the 20th century: the String Quartet No. 2 in 1968, Ramifications in 1968–69, the Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Chamber Ensemble in 1972, while Clocks and Clouds in 1972–73. Every year we programme at least one of Ligeti’s concertos: in 2006 it was the Violin Concerto and in 2007 the Cello Concerto. This year, we perform the Double Concerto for Flute and Oboe and in 2009, we plan to round off the series with the Piano Concerto. An important circumstance is that a new generation of Hungarian instrumentalists has grown up capable of giving meaningful performances of these works. (This was not the case in his lifetime.) Our objective is to keep the series going until 2012 so that by the end Hungary will deserve to be regarded as the country of Bartók, Kodály and Ligeti.” Zoltán Rácz
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