Conductor: Domonkos Héja Featuring: Péter Cseke actor Wagner: Parsifal – prelude László Sándor: Clouds Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major (“Reformation”), op. 107 The orchestra was founded in 1993 by the subsequent winner of Hungarian Television’s Ninth International Conductors’ Competition Domonkos Héja, who is currently still the ensemble’s artistic director. As a result of hard rehearsal work and structured practise, the orchestra – first as the Danubia Youth Orchestra and then t...he Danubia Symphony Orchestra – grew into a standing orchestra. Since 1997 it has had its own subscription series at the Academy of Music and is regularly invited to perform at the most prestigious festivals. The orchestra has been asked to play at the Berlin Konzerthaus on three occasions, as well as at the Lyon Auditorium, the Zurich Tonhalle and the Vatican where they made music for Pope John Paul II. They have also released two CDs for a multi-national record label. Despite this, the orchestra was threatened by financial problems until spring 2007, when Budapest’s Third District (Óbuda) generously stepped in which is why the musicians are now known as the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra. The name is new but the youthful dynamism and towering standards are unchanged. This concert presents two exceedingly difficult works and a new composition by a founding member of the orchestra, László Sándor, who in 2005 won first prize at the composers’ competition organized in honour of the Attila József memorial year. This symphonic poem depicts the movement of the clouds and is cast in five sections. It has been inspired through free associations to quotations by poet Attila József which are written on the printed score. These will be recited by actor Péter Cseke before this work which stylistically draws inspiration from Fin-de-siecle romanticism.
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