Invitation: New Year Festive Concert By Concerto Budapest, National Concert Hall, 4 Jan
- 3 Jan 2013 8:00 AM
Biblical themes play a central role in the oeuvre of Messiaen, primarily the events in the life of Jesus Christ from the birth of the saviour to the ascension. The composer was organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris from 1931 onwards, so his orchestral works are characterised by both a religious tone and an organist’s sensibility. Each movement of the orchestral version of L’Ascension is given a subtitle with a biblical reference.
In the slow, majestic first movement (The majesty of Christ demanding its glory of the Father) the woodwind instruments take the main role.
The second, three-part movement in A-B-A form (Serene alleluias of a soul that longs for heaven) is followed by an animated perpetuum mobile that opens with a trumpet fanfare before the cymbals come to the fore, as we might expect from the subtitle Alleluia on the trumpet, alleluia on the cymbal.
The composition then closes with a slow and ceremonial finale in a sharply contrasting meditative tone (Prayer of Christ ascending towards his Father).
Date & time: 4 January 2013, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Venue: Bartók Béla National Concert Hall
Messiaen: L’Ascension
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125
Conductor: András Keller
Prices: 2500, 3200, 4000, 4800, 6000 Ft
Source: Palace of Arts
Address: 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
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