Three leading fixtures on the Hungarian music scene take to the stage of the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall to perform three evergreen audience favourites. Multiple anniversaries provide the occasion for such an extraordinary encounter. Miklós Perényi, accorded the title of “Artist of the Season” by the Palace of Arts, is celebrating his 65th birthday, while it is exactly 40 years since Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi won the conductor’s competition which marked the beginning of his life-long friendship... with Hungary and the Hungarian public. Meanwhile, the MR Symphony Orchestra, as the current “Orchestra of the Season,” celebrates the 70th anniversary of its formation. All three works to be heard here are closely connected to the activities of the 73-year-old Japanese conductor in Hungary. Dances of Galánta, a Kodály composition performed the world over, is symbolic of this connection, a 1975 performance of which prompted the music critic György Kroó to write: “Kobayashi is an incisive talent who radiates musicality. His technique, his conducting method, is as natural as if he had been born with it. […] And the orchestra, in this case the Symphony Orchestra of Hungarian Radio and Television, is refreshed and rejuvenated in the fresh musical atmosphere that Kobayashi creates.” This radiant musicality and fresh musical atmosphere permeating Kobayashi’s performances has attracted – and continues to attract – thousands to the conductor’s concerts, whether they take place in Prague, Tokyo or Budapest. Large-scale works suit Kobayashi’s disposition particularly well, such as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, the scenic cantata composed to a text found in a Benedictine monastery in Bavaria and later completed in 1936, which has rightly become one of the Japanese conductor’s signature works. Anyone familiar with the similarly natural and radiant musicality of Miklós Perényi will know they can look forward to a unique interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a Mozart-inspired work written for a Classical orchestra which shows a strong affinity to the 18th century in the elegance of its melodies and its clean musical structure. Presented by: Palace of Arts, Media Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA)
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