Featuring: Vitali Kupri – piano Conductor: Sándor Gyüdi János Viski: Enigma Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18 Elgar: Enigma Variations, op. 36 János Viski was a student of Kodály at the Academy of Music where he later became the teacher of a new generation of composers, including Erzsébet Szőnyi, József Soproni and Péter Eötvös. His symphonic poem, Enigma based on a Bálint Balassi poem, was composed in 1939 and published by Universal, who was responsible for issuing... the works of Mahler, Schoenberg and Bartók, in 1941. Several contemporary conductors, such as Failoni, Mengelberg and Karajan, programmed it. Edward Elgar’s own Enigma Variations were written forty years before Viski’s work. Each variation is a portrait of one of the British composer’s friends, but the “enigma” is the nature of the original tune which is believed to be a counterpoint melody to something very famous and British. The identity of this tune is still disputed. Between these two works with similar names, we shall hear Sergei Rachmaninov’s perhaps most popular composition. The soloist is Ukrainian Vitali Kupri who is a versatile artist and at home in both classical and rock music. He has been successful at a number of piano competitions and debuted in many European countries as well as the United States. One of the leading flautists of our era, Sir James Galway, chose him as his partner and has said: “He is most gifted and his playing is simply poetic”. 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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