The first piece of the evening will be the orchestral version of Ernst von Dohnányi's Ruralia hungarica, for which he used five of the seven movements from the original piano cycle he had composed a year earlier. The work constitutes a rarity among von Dohnányi's output, as it was very unusual for this composer who had grown up in the magic circle of German Romanticism to work with tunes from Hungarian folk music. more
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Non-season ticket concert / 6
Friday, 29 January 2021, 7:30 pm
Hungarian National Philharmonic – Orchestral Academy
Closing concert
Tickets: HUF 3 500 (per ticket, subject to reserved seating)
Ernő Dohnányi: Ruralia hungarica, op. 32
Zoltán Kodály: The Peacock – variations on a Hungarian folk song
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Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz 116
Students of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Zsolt Hamar
The first piece of the evening will be the orchestral version of Ernst von Dohnányi's Ruralia hungarica, for which he used five of the seven movements from the original piano cycle he had composed a year earlier. The work constitutes a rarity among von Dohnányi's output, as it was very unusual for this composer who had grown up in the magic circle of German Romanticism to work with tunes from Hungarian folk music. The success that this symphonic piece has enjoyed to this day is a result of the varied melodies and the exceptional orchestration.
Willem Mengelberg commissioned Zoltán Kodály to write a large-scale composition in 1937: As the theme for his variations, he selected the folk song The Peacock, which exemplifies the essential characteristics of early Hungarian folk music, a structure of shifting fifths, a regular pentatonic melodic line and a parlando-rubato style of delivery. Over the course of the 16 variations, the piece reveals its musical characters to the listener in unmatched richness before eventually returning triumphantly to the theme of the folk song to proclaim that "the poor prisoners are now free."
Introducing Bartók's Concerto, composed in 1943 based on a commission from Serge Koussevitzky, was left to the greatest expert of all, the composer himself, who wrote in the programme booklet for the Boston world première, "The title of this symphony-like orchestral work is explained by its tendency to treat the single instruments or instrumental groups in a concertant or soloistic manner. The 'virtuoso' treatment appears, for instance, in the fugato sections of the development of the first movement (brass instruments), or in the perpetuum mobile-like passage of the principal theme in the last movement (strings), and, especially, in the second movement, in which pairs of instruments consecutively appear with brilliant passages." What Bartók coyly neglects to mention is the fact that this work written after he had emigrated to America is a moving document of patriotic love and painful homesickness – as attested to by the paraphrase of the operetta tune Hungary, you are beautiful and splendid in the fourth movement.
Jean Sibelius: Six Songs – Sydämeni laulu (Song of My Heart), Op. 18, No. 6 Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major (“Drumroll”) Hob. I:103 Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Op. 40
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