Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Gilbert Varga

Soloist

Narek Hakhnazaryan

cello

About the Programme

The programme of this evening, compiled from unusual, in Hungary very rarely heard compositions, is focusing on relations of French and Spanish music of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Whose Cello Concerto was written in 1876, Édouard Lalo’s affection for the Spanish culture is kept in his several works, including the well-known "Spanish” Symphony. Joaquín Turina, who  studied also in Paris and Jesús Guridi were both representative of the early 20th century Spanish modernity  - with outstanding abilities, but internationally less known; both of them tried to combine folk music elements of their immediate environment with the  music of French contemporaries (especially the Impressionists), much admired by them. Spanish folk music inspired the concert starting and closing Ravel work, too: the French master’s perhaps best known composition, the Bolero is based on an 18th century dance of the same name; as the composer used Hispanic themes for his fourth piece (Alborada del gracioso) of the Mirroirs (Mirrors) cycle, originally composed for piano, too; it was later rearranged for orchestra, as well.