National Philharmonic Orchestra Concert, Budapest, 28 February
- 27 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
A selection of works with a connection to Vienna feature at this special concert. Born 115 years ago, Erich Wolfgang Korngold caused a sensation as a composer while still a child – perhaps predestined to do so by his given middle name of Wolfgang. Among the greats of the time, he captured the attention of Mahler, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Arthur Nikisch and Károly Goldmark. He was aged 11 when the Vienna Court Opera premièred his ballet The Snowman, and by the age of 22 – when he wrote the incidental music for the Shakespeare play to be performed at this concert – already had a string of significant symphonic works behind him, as well as his first two operas. He later moved to Hollywood and carved out a glittering career as the father of symphonic film scores, earning two Oscars in the process.
The Piano Concerto in C major (K. 503) is perhaps Mozart’s largest-scale work in the genre. Composed in 1786, the work was performed to great acclaim by its composer on several occasions during the carnival season of 1787, and is comparable in scale only to the Jupiter Symphony in the same key. Soloist for this evening is Pascal Rogé. Born in 1951, he is both an ambassador for French piano music and a widely acknowledged interpreter of works by the Viennese Classical composers.
Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss is set in the Vienna of the mid-18th century; a suite made up of excerpts from the opera and designed for concert performance, it was completed some three decades after the original première in 1911. In anachronistic fashion – and in order to evoke the milieu of Maria Theresa’s time and the atmosphere of Vienna – the composer employed the Viennese waltz, the genre of dance music made popular in the first half of the 19th century and in which Johann Strauss created works of such lasting value.
The evening’s concert will be conducted by the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Brazilian conductor Roberto Minczuk, musical director of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. As a conductor, he has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, and as one-time horn soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Date & time: 28 February 2013, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Venue: Bartók Béla National Concert Hall
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing – orchestral suite
Mozart: Piano Concerto in C major, K. 503
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – suite
Selection from the works of Johann Strauss the Younger
Conductor: Roberto Minczuk
Prices: 2100, 2900, 3600, 4300, 5200 Ft
Source: Palace of Arts
Address: 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
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