Conductor: András Ligeti Programme host: Gábor Iván Schubert: Magic Harp – Rosamunde Overture Weber: Magic Hunter – overture Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty – ballet (extract) Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice A few decades ago, Leonard Bernstein’s series “Young People’s Concerts” could be seen on television. In these concerts Bernstein conducted and would give a witty and interesting talk before each work. He convinced thousands that serious music is not frighteningly “serious”, and that en...joyment does not demand specialist knowledge, just a degree of attention. The reward for this effort was limitless joy. The Palace of Arts has launched this now traditional series with a similar ambition and scope. One of the best known and most frequently employed “tools” of fairy stories is magic, and one of the most important characters is a magician. As the possessor of arcane knowledge and abilities, he can change his own shape or make living creatures and objects invisible, or else he can put someone to sleep for a long time and then wake them up again. Story tellers have always known that there are good and bad magicians and that objects “exist” that possess magical powers. All the works heard in this concert are in some way connected to magic. Franz Schubert’s much loved Rosamunde Overture was written for the fairytale opera The Magic Harp in 1820. Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty. One of the characters from the famous German composer Carl Maria von Weber’s opera The Magic Hunter makes a pact with the devil so he can fire a bullet accurately at a shooting competition. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a ballad about a young sorcerer’s apprentice who tries out a spell he has seen his master perform but with only partial success resulting in great chaos. The French composer Paul Dukas was inspired to write his now famous orchestral piece. Beyond these stories, the great magic of all is MUSIC which is able to make all this visible for us without words or pictures.
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