Featuring: Márta Sebestyén – singer, Muzsikás Group, Zoltán Juhász – shepherd’s flute (tilinkó), Translyvanian flute, Pál Havasréti – hurdy-gurdy, György Lányi – bagpipes, Jew’s harp, Ilona Szeverényi – cimbalom Conductor: András Ligeti Bartók: Dance Suite László Dubrovay: Concerto for Hungarian Folk Instruments and Orchestra Kodály: The Peacock – variations on a Hungarian folksong Folk music and art music have influenced each other for centuries but composers, primarily in Eastern Eu...rope, only turned to peasant music consciously as a source of new inspiration in the early 20th century. In Dance Suite Béla Bartók passes through virtually all the territories which he explored on his collecting trips. Hungarian, Romanian and Arab influenced sections succeed one another and the work is held together by a regularly returning Hungarian verbunk theme. László Dubrovay composed his Concerto in 1999. He says that the soloistic use of folk instruments creates possibilities for him to enrich orchestral sonority, to mix previously unheard combinations of sound colours and to unify the sound worlds of Hungarian folk culture and modern music. Zoltán Kodály composed his Peacock Variations for the fiftieth anniversary of the Concertgebouw Orchestra which was formed in 1888. The work was premiered by the Amsterdam ensemble in 1939. This symphonic work is in three sections, and the composer creates the apotheosis of folk song as he subjects one of the most ancient folk music melodies to a set of inventive variations. From January to March 2005, before its official opening, the Palace of Arts underwent a testing phase during which Hungarian orchestras performed almost daily, giving us not only a sense of the hall’s capabilities but also presenting a fascinating picture of Hungary’s orchestral life. The positive experiences gathered during this “spontaneous” festival spawned the concept of turning it into a permanent feature of the Palace of Arts’ concert series and it has now become an established new tradition. Thus in 2006, the series Symphonia Hungarorum – Hungarian Symphonic Panorama was created and in 2007, no less than fifteen Hungarian symphonic ensembles will represent themselves at the festival. As last year, the orchestras are free to choose their own programmes with the proviso they perform in each concert at least one 20th or 21st century Hungarian work.
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