Our weekly transmissions 1–7 February 2021
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DEAR VIEWERS, We believe that there are no limits to the Müpa Budapest experience. We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for our fantastic audience to still be able to encounter the world’s most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening – this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we have decided to unlock our media library for everyone over the weeks to come and – each night at the familiar times: 7 pm, 7.30 pm or 8 pm, depending on genre – open Müpa Budapest’s virtual concert hall by providing access to many live concerts (although without an audience) or an unforgettable performance from past years, which we’ll transmit on our website, and our YouTube channel. We trust that, in this way, we will be able to make the evenings you are spending at home more pleasant and full of magical and uplifting moments. Take good care, and let’s continue to stick together!
Baráti Kristóf • Fotó © Marco Borggreve
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 7.30 pm
WHITE NIGHTS
Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44 • Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 • Grieg: Peer Gynt – excerpts (Morning Mood; Anitra’s Dance; Arabian Dance; The Death of Åse; In the Hall of the Mountain King; Solveg’s Song) Featuring: Kristóf Baráti – violin • Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Martin Rajna The title of this concert – ‚White Nights’ – refers to the lands of the north, where the sun never sets during part of the year, and for 24 hours of each day, there is no darkness. What does the ‚north’ mean in our collective consciousness? If we associate the south with a sort of temperamentality, the east with the exoticism of Asian countries, and the west with the development of technology and civilisation, then the north, we would have to say, is a place full of relentless cold and harshness. But when it comes to northern music, which is often also very passionate and energetic, isn’t the truth really the exact opposite of all this? The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Fotó © Bátori Gábor Sinco
Artistic director: Iván Fischer
6 February 2021
Liszt and Berlioz were not just contemporaries and rivals – two 19th century Romantics – but also friends and brothers-at-arms. Just like in the past, with Schumann and Mendelssohn, Debussy and Ravel, we will now present Liszt and Berlioz’s works together to our audience as part of Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s incredibly popular composer marathon.
Photo © Attila Nagy
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 10 am
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
GERGELY BOGÁNYI Liszt: Preludio – Transcendental Étude No. 1 • Transcendental Étude No. 2 in A minor • Paysage – Transcendental Étude No. 3 • Mazeppa –Transcendental Étude No. 4 • Les cloches de Genève (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 1) • Vallée d’Obermann (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 1) • Eroica – Transcendental Étude No. 7 Liszt was an incredibly multi-faceted composer, creating works in the genres of opera, oratorio, choral music, songs, symphonic music and concertos. However, the most personal field of his creative activity was his wealth of material composed for piano. It should be no surprise that the greatest piano virtuoso of his era had such a close affinity with his instrument. During Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s joint Liszt-Berlioz Marathon, we can enjoy a selection of these compositions performed by Gergely Bogányi. Recording date: 4 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
György Lakatos
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 11 am
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
FOREST MURMURS FAMILY CONCERT Liszt: Waldesrauschen (Concert Étude) • Liszt: Au bord d’une source (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 1) • Liszt: Au lac de Wallenstadt (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 1) • Schubert–Liszt: Ständchen • Liszt: Orage (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 1) • Liszt: Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este (Années de pèlerinage, Volume 3) Featuring: György Lakatos – storyteller • Domonkos Bede, Máté Dömötör, Lili Farkas, Benedek Jancsó, Kim Ye Lin – piano ansmit the values of our era to the next generation. Children should be introduced to classical music from an early age – though not as an educational subject, but by talking, playfully, to make this world their own. Why would the 19th century be an exception? In the Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s joint Liszt– Berlioz Marathon, György Lakatos – a natural communicator with children – invites you on a stroll through a mysterious Romantic forest. Recording date: 1 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 12 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
JAZZICAL TRIO
Norbert Káel – piano • Péter Oláh – double bass • András Lakatos Pecek – drums It has long been a tradition for classical musicians to maintain an interest in jazz music – just think of Stravinsky, Ravel and Milhaud. For several decades, we have also seen that many jazz musicians are open to classical music, from Dave Brubeck to the Modern Jazz Quartet and Károly Binder. Among Hungarian jazz musicians we have Norbert Káel, for whom both classical music and jazz are his native tongue. For the Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon, the Jazzical Trio have drawn inspiration from the works of the two composers. Recording date: 1 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Zoltán Fejérvári • Photo © Balázs Böröcz
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 1 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
MÁV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 • Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major Featuring: Zoltán Fejérvári – piano • Conductor: Daniel Boico Franz Liszt approached his work as a composer with a Faustian temperament and as a constant struggle, and it is deeply typical of him that one of the chief works of his life is the Faust Symphony – with the Faustian outlook also present in other works of his, such as the Piano Sonata in B minor. So it is little wonder that the Mephisto Waltz No. 1 is also being included in the programme of Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s joint Liszt–Berlioz Marathon. The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, the longer work in this concert’s programme, is no less emblematic, as Liszt used the revolutionarily innovative piece to reform the genre of the concerto. Recording date: 5 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Ádám Balogh • Photo © Balázs Bergics
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 2.30 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
JÁNOS PALOJTAY AND ÁDÁM BALOGH Liszt: Concerto pathétique • Liszt: Les Préludes In the 19th century, chamber music written for four hands or for two pianos was a widespread element of playing music at home. There are two reasons for this: first, because it was common at that time to find two keyboard instruments in bourgeois households, and second, because transcriptions created for these formats allowed the musically educated layers of society – that is, the bourgeoisie and up – to use their own instrumental skills to gain a familiarity with orchestral works amidst the surroundings of their own homes. Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon will provide us with a taste of Franz Liszt’s output for two pianos. Recording date: 1 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Fotó © Hrotkó Bálint
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 3.30 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
DANUBIA ORCHESTRA ÓBUDA Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major • Liszt: Prometheus – symphonic poem Featuring: József Balog – piano • Conductor: Máté Hámori Liszt’s two piano concertos, the E-flat major and the A major, relate to each other like a passionate older brother and a gentle younger sister. The symphonic poem Prometheus also brings a parallel to mind: the theme of the heroic figure from Greek mythology had also found its way to Liszt’s great role model, Beethoven, who also later incorporated his incidental music for a theatrical piece depicting the thief of fire into a symphonic work. This concert at Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon presents the A major piano concerto and the symphonic poem Prometheus back to back. Recording date: 4 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 4.30 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
DÁVID BÁLL
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor The Romantic composers were in close contact with each other, monitoring the work of their compatriots. Robert Schumann dedicated his great 1839 piano work Fantasia in C major, prefaced with a mystical quote from Friedrich Schlegel, to Franz Liszt. The Hungarian composer would later go on to reciprocate this gesture in 1853, when he dedicated his Sonata in B minor, one of the grandest and most mysterious works in the piano literature, to Schumann. It is this piece, whose effect remains quite modern to this day, that we will get to hear at this concert during Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon. Recording date: 4 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Photo © Gábor Kotschy
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 5.30 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
GYŐR PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Conductor: Kálmán Berkes Looming behind the backs of most of the great 19th-century composers is a single giant shadow: Beethoven’s. He was the chief predecessor of the Romantics, the liberator of their thinking. Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky all drew from the well of his music. Berlioz’s most famous work, the Symphonie fantastique, also would never have existed without Beethoven’s antecedants. We will get to hear this piece at Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon. Recording date: 1 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Máté Szűcs
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 7 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
PANNON PHILHARMONIC Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16 Featuring: Máté Szűcs – viola • Conductor: András Vass Any list of those earlier musicians who greatly inspired the Romantics has to include Paganini. If Beethoven influenced the way composers thought, Paganini proved inspiring in the areas of how instruments were handled and the virtuosity cult of the Romantic era. Liszt’s piano playing followed the example of Paganini’s violin bravura, while it was at the urging of Paganini himself that Berlioz began work in 1834 on one of his most wonderful works: the symphony Harold en Italie. Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon offers a chance to encounter this work. Recording date: 5 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Photo © ODPictures, Domonkos Orbán
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 8 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
SAINT EPHRAIM MALE CHOIR Liszt: Pax vobiscum! • Missa quattuor vocum ad aequales – Kyrie, Gloria • Laudate Dominum • Missa quattuor vocum ad aequales – Credo • Mihi autem adhaerere • Missa quattuor vocum ad aequales – Sanctus et Benedictus, Agnus Dei Artistic director: Tamás Bubnó • Featuring: László Fassang – organ As a composer, Franz Liszt was primarily occupied with instrumental music, and the powers of the piano had the greatest influence on his creative imagination. Yet he was no stranger to vocals, and was a keen cultivator of choral music genres. His compositions for male choir are particularly worthy of note in this field. For this concert of Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s joint Liszt– Berlioz Marathon, the Saint Ephraim Male Choir will provide us with a taste of this productive chapter in Liszt’s career. Recording date: 4 February 2021 The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Nicolas Namoradze • Photo © Nathan Elson
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 9 pm
LISZT–BERLIOZ MARATHON
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Liszt: Legend No. 2 (in E major) (Saint Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves) – orchestral version • Liszt: Totentanz • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Featuring: Nicolas Namoradze – piano • Conductor: Iván Fischer Franz Liszt was a multifaceted individual, and his oeuvre accordingly includes many different types of works. The closing concert of Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Liszt–Berlioz Marathon juxtaposes three works and three separate worlds: the first depicts a religious legend, the second evokes a medieval death cult, and the third was conceived in the spirit of the fashion of 19th-century salon pieces inspired by folk-like art songs. The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
Csík Band • Photo © István Lajtos
Sunday, 7 February 2021, 7.30 pm
A CELEBRATION OF FOLK MUSIC – FROM DANCE HOUSE TO WORLD MUSIC Featuring: Péter Novák and Etnofon, Berka Ensemble, Fonó Band, Romano Drom, Csík Band The Csík Band’s guests: Gábor Presser, János ‚James’ Karácsony This is the 14th year we are holding a grand gala programme to celebrate Hungarian folk music in all of its richness and openness. It also includes other attractive features we could mention, but these two are sufficient to serve as an organising principle... and the justification for the fact that we consider both traditional and arranged folk music to be equally essential, not to speak of the original pieces inspired by them. This is true if for no other reason than the fact that they are linked together through the professional humility and exemplary standards that are equally present in the great elders of the genre and their younger followers. The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.
PREVIEW
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ROZINA PÁTKAI AND MINKA 17 January 2018
SWAN LAKE 16 November 2014
DVOŘÁK MARATHON 28 February 2009
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