The theme of the sonnets is love, the eternal triangle, candid sexuality and everything that accompanies it; the material of the sonnets is a paradox, and so their style, too, is paradoxical. Renaissance readers had a very good ear indeed for wordplay and the way words resonate off each other; indeed, when reading they would easily spot anagrams and graphic superimpositions.

For its part, in setting the sonnets to music, W. H. projects them in a way that dazzles the ears and eyes of the modern audience. For Shakespeare, double and multiple meanings are used as a vivid instrument of poetic expression, while the risqué is not a forbidden, but an absolutely desirable, creative force – just as in Hungarian Renaissance love songs or the verse of Balassi, Rimay and Gyöngyösi (and later Csokonai).

Setting the poetry to music brings to life the associative structure of the text and the linguistic and rhetorical workings of the verse. Sonnets and songs in English and Hungarian, with acoustic and electronic instrumental accompaniment, are presented here on the Day of Poetry.

Date and time: 11 April 2014, 8.00 pm - 10.00 pm
Venue: Festival Theatre
Address: 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Sena Dagadu – vocals, Albert Márkos – cello, Samu Gryllus – bass guitar, Hunor G. Szabó – drums
Featuring: Vera Kardos – violin, Ákos Zságer-Varga – keyboards, Márton Fenyvesi – guitar, Péter Ajtai – double bass, Vince Varga – projection
Guest: Eszter Ónodi – vocals
Director: László Keszég

Presented by: Palace of Arts

For this concert you can buy your tickets in the Palace of Arts’ Ticket Offices, also with vacation vouchers, Edenred Ticket Culture vouchers, Sodexho Pass culture and gift vouchers, Palace of Arts gift vouchers and a SZÉP vacation card.

Prices: 2200, 2900, 3200 Ft

Source: Palace of Arts