Pannon Philharmonic

Hartmann’s name sounds familiar only to a few people even in music savvy circles, while the composer is certainly one of the greatest German symphonists. In the 2014/2015 session, the Pannon Philharmonic takes as its mission to introduce to its audience this composer's musical oeuvre; and for that, those musical compositions have been called for help, which each shall appoint Hartmann among the composer giants of music history'. Based on the intensity, richness of content and structural complexity of his symphonic works, music interpreters often compare Hartmann's style to the ones of the mature Stravinsky or Bartók.
At the concert, entitled Masters’ Memories, the Pannon Philharmonic revokes such composers who created something unsurpassable in their typical genre. Christian Max Bruch wrote himself into music history with nearly 200 works. The Hungarian-born world-famous violin artist József Joachim said once that the Germans have four violin concerto: Beethoven’s is the largest, Brahms’s is the most serious, Mendelssohn's the most intimate, but of all of them, Bruch’s G minor Concerto, finished in 1867, is the richest and most alluring – the one going to be played at this concert of the Pannon Philharmonic.

Wagner’s incredible popularity, which still exists, soon shortly after the composer's death inspired his colleagues who composed symphonic transcriptions of extracts of his operas. The Dutch-born Henk de Vlieger also liked to use Wagner works; in his compositions, the carefully selected opera extracts became new and independent orchestral works. His symphonic adaptation, called Orchestral Tribute, finished in 2005, reworked 11 parts of the Wagner's opera Mastersingers of Nuremberg that are most able to capture the essence of the drama.

The soloist of the concert is Barnabás Kelemen, the resident violinist of the Pannon Philharmonic’s 2014/2015 session. Benjamin Ziervogel, the concertmaster of the Slovene RTV Symphony Orchestra has been invited to play in the Wagner piece. At this concert, the Pannon Philharmonic is going to be conducted by chief conductor Tibor Bogányi.