Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Gergely Ménesi

Soloist

Tímea Vermes

soprano

István Rácz

bass

Cantemus Choir

About the Programme

Program:

• Albinoni: Adagio
• Fauré: Requiem
• Mahler: Adagietto

The Adagio that is attributed to Tommaso Albinoni belongs to the baroque master just in a fragment, in deed. A 20th-century musicologist, Remo Giazotto might have composed the work, based on the quite short bass-part of the Albinoni-trio sonata (op.4), dated to 1708. But for the audience, it remains the “eternal” Albinoni Adagio – devout, wonderful, and never-boring.

There have been several guesses about the purpose of the composition of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. His own statement: "I just wrote it... for fun, if I may say so.” Against the unusual mood of the funeral masses, this work doesn’t implies the frightening closeness of the passing-away and the presence of pain – perhaps because of the lack of musically apocalyptical pictures; it could be rather the cradle song of death.

The Adagietto is inevitably the most popular movement of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.5; “it can live without” the symphony, too. Mahler’s simple idea that he paired the string orchestra with a harp resulted a sound incomparable with anything before and later. The audience can close their eyes and devote themselves to music.