Conductor: Iván Fischer Featuring: Birgit Remmert – mezzo-soprano, Ákos Ács – clarinet, Female Choir of the MR Choir (choirmaster: Kálmán Strausz), MR Children’s Choir (choirmaster: Gabriella Thész) Miklós Csemiczky: Scherzo all’ongarese – commissioned by the Mahlerfest, world première László Dubrovay: Hungarian Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra – commissioned by the Mahlerfest, world première Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor “Scherzo all’ongarese, a ‘scherzo in Hungarian fashion’. But w...hat does it mean, ‘Hungarian fashion’? Let no one be mistaken, that scherzo originally meant joke. There is no joke here, everything is deadly serious: the verbunk elements, the lamenting-nostalgic tone of the taragot, the Kodály-Bartók sea harmonies… All this on a great Mahlerian orchestra. Is it end-of- and start-of-century-music? Well, yes. Is it the loss of something, or the finding of it, or perhaps refinding? Questions which should be answered by the work, shouldn’t they?” Miklós Csemiczky “Franz Liszt was the most important composer for me in my youth; as a pianist I played many of his works. I marvelled him as an innovator, who enriched the playing technique of the instrument. Later his creative genius astonished me. His works pave the way for impressionism, expressionism, 20th century folklorism and dodecaphony. His innovations are always the material manifestations of intellectual rebirth. My Hungarian Rhapsody follows the formal concept of Liszt’s rhapsodies with its “Slow–Fresh” one movement form.” László Dubrovay Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 3 was composed in 1896, the year after the Symphony No. 2. In it, he also calls for an alto soloist, a female and boys choir. The German Birgit Remmert began her career at the Zurich Opera. In 1993 she debuted in Salzburg and in 2000 in Bayreuth. She is regular guest with leading ensembles and has worked with virtually all the great conductors of our time. Audience of the Budapest Festival Orchestra were last able to hear her in autumn 2005 when she was one of the soloists in their account of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony.
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