Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Tibor Bogányi

In 2017/2018, he is spending his seventh season as chief conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic.

Tibor Bogányi is of Hungarian descent and is regarded as the most interesting and talented member of the generation of Finnish conductors. At the age of 28 he was appointed Chief Conductor of… More

Soloist

Jan-Erik Gustafsson

cello

The Finnish Cellist Jan-Erik Gustafsson is one of the most outstanding and sought after soloist and chamber musician in the international music world today. He began his studies with Markku Luolajan-Mikkola at the West Helsinki Music Institute. He studied further… More

About the Programme

György Orbán doesn't think that the mixing of styles is from the devil. In his Serenade No.4, "one can hear the early Stravinsky, then Shostakovich, certain jazz elements, the film music composer Nino Rota, even Tom and Jerry” – writes one of his critiques. The composer's will "paying tribute to Bartók and Mahler, in the spirit of pentatony”; and we shall add to that: with tested and approved tools, never leaving the well-known path.
Also Ernő Dohnányi was a conservative composer, who as young started on the Brahmsian way, which he never moved away from, unlike his peer Bartók. The op.12 is essentially a three-movement cello concerto composed in one; and the title Konzertstück recalls Schumann. Its mood is close to the cello concertos of the later mentioned composer and Dvořák.
The cello plays the leading role in the fantastic poem Don Quixote, too; Strauss impersonalised the knight with a sorrowful countenance. One can easily follows his adventures; the music vividly describes the flock of sheep, mistaken as an army, the Benedictine monk, misinterpreted as a magician, or the hero's battles against windmills, envisioned as giants.