Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis Featuring: Ian Fountain – piano Barnabás Dukay: Symphonies for the Midnight Sun – world première Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, op. 19 Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, op. 58 As we have come to expect, Zoltán Kocsis has once again come up with a subtle and inventive programme which has as its central theme the symphony, symphonic thinking and its varying interpretations. One of the most enigmatic of today’s Hungarian composers is Barnabás Dukay. Ta...king similarly named pieces as a starting point, his new work specially commissioned by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra suggests we must interpret the generic hint of its title broadly and that it would be a mistake to think in terms of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. The composer, like Kocsis, was a member of the New Music Studio and the atmosphere of his works links them to 14th and 15th century music. We can sense a striving towards a richly orchestrated and sensitive symphonic world in the original Greek meaning of the word: a tendency towards combined sonority. As a counterpoint to this work, Kocsis who is famous for his powerful and dramatic interpretations of Beethoven has invited a fellow pianist to play the Piano Concerto in B flat major who at the age of nineteen was the youngest ever winner of the high-ranking Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv back in 1989. British born Ian Fountain has been a professor at the Royal Academy of Music since 2001 and has performed on a number of occasions at the Tiszadob Piano Festival, so he is not unknown to Hungarian audiences. In the second half, we shall hear a relatively neglected Tchaikovsky work although it is one of the most remarkable works of the symphonic genre. Written in 1885 and cast in four movements following classical tradition, it sets to music the romantic dramatic poem by Beethoven’s contemporary Lord Byron.
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