Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

András Vass

Education:
Twelve years of piano studies at the Targu Mures Arts Lyceum; two years of private study with the composer Boldizsár Csíky; Balthasar five years of conducting study led by  Ervin Lukács, András Ligeti, and Tamás Gál, after having admitted with maximum score to Franz Liszt Academy of Music… More

Soloist

Zsolt Kalló

violin

About the Programme

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, called as the "Hamburgian" Bach, as well, is gone into music history not just as the most talented son of Johann Sebastian Bach, crowning the Baroque, but his father’s three Violin Concerto, written about 1720 in Köthen, popped out from his legacy. This time you can hear the concertos in E major and in a minor. Also two pieces of the six Hamburg symphonies, composed for string orchestra, written by the Bach-son, who was an important forerunner of Viennese Classics. They are generally considered as being at the same rank as the orchestral works of Mozart and Haydn, composed at the same time. In the first decades of the 19th century, few have done so much for the re-discovery of Bach, almost completely forgotten by that time, as Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The concert ends with his Symphony No.5, of which fourth movement starts with the coral “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”.