Featuring: Óbuda Danubia Orchestra Conductor: Domonkos Héja J. S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 Mendelssohn: Sonata in D minor, op. 65, No. 6 Wagner–Liszt: Pilgrims’ Chorus from Tannhäuser Duruflé: Toccata from Suite opus 5 Jongen: Symphonie concertante for Organ and Orchestra, op. 81 Bestowed with the Liszt Prize organist László Fassang established an international reputation for himself by winning the world’s leading two organ competitions: the gold medal for improvisati...on in Calgary in 2002 and the Grand Prix and audience prize at Chartres in 2004. After his studies at the Budapest Academy of Music, he entered the class of Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry at the Paris Conservatoire while in 2000 working as the Sapporo Concert Hall organist in Japan. He was also employed as a consultant during the construction of the new organ at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall and since 2006 has been the artistic director of the organ series at the Palace. His solo recordings have been published in Japan and France and he performs throughout the world. Since 2004, he has taught at San Sebastian Music College in Spain. Besides performing the classical organ literature, he is strongly committed to the art of improvisation and likes to demonstrate the possibilities of his instrument through synthesis of other musical styles, including jazz and traditional music. In today’s concert, he will stay rooted in so-called classical music. The first half will be framed by toccatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Maurice Duruflé and features an interesting encounter between different styles and musical attitudes, from festive lyricism to sparkling virtuosity; we’ll also hear one of Wagner’s best known melodies in a rarely heard arrangement by Liszt. The second half features a composer who was born exactly a hundred years before the performer in 1873. Belgian composer and organist Joseph Jongen composed his Symphonie concertante in 1926 and is now regarded as one of the grandest and most ambitious works for organ and orchestra.
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