Four famous overtures, four popular symphonies by Beethoven, four concertos by Bartók as well as a rarity – this is what the Beethoven-Bartók season ticket of the Hungarian Telecom Orchestra offers you. The opening piece of the October 8 concert is what is known as the Leonore Overture No.3. This was composed for the second version of the opera Fidelio, premiered in 1806 (the traditional numbering of Leonore Overtures is, unfortunately, misleading). Later on, Beethoven composed yet another over...ture for the last version of the opera (which is usually referred to as the Fidelio Overture), probably because he realised that this great piece foretold all the important moves of the drama in advance, thus actually making the detailed unfolding of the rescue story superfluous. The second piece in the first half of the concert is Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 this time – the work in which Bartók makes an unmistakable reference to one of Beethoven’s string quartet themes. The beginning of the slow movement is reminiscent of the chorale-like song of the Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: the melody that Beethoven called the “Holy Song of Thanksgiving by a Convalescent”. Bartók, seriously ill in summer 1945, probably also had a feeling of arising hope. Another interesting feature of the composition devoted to Ditta Pásztory is that the central part of the slow movement evokes bird songs carefully noted down by Bartók. There are more bird songs to follow after the interval, in the slow movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral Symphony”, although they are probably not quite authentic from an ornithological point of view. Beethoven even provided subtitles to the work comprised of, exceptionally, five rather than four movements. The first one thus is “Awakening of cheerful feelings upon arrival in the country”, followed by the “Scene at the brook”, with bird songs. The peaceful and idyllic everyday scenes are then followed by a “Happy gathering of country folk”, interrupted by the raging nature in the “Storm”. The closing movement, following similarly attaca, i.e. without a pause between the movements, is a thanksgiving after the storm. The Pastoral Symphony, together with the one in C minor, were premiered on December 22, 1808, remarkably with a reverse numbering at the time. The concert is to feature soloist Dezső Ránki and conductor András Keller.
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