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

Balázs Fülei

piano

Balázs Fülei,Hungarian pianist was born in Kecskemét, Hungary 1984. He started to learn music at the age of eight, his interest in music and his performer qualities were already revealed in early childhood. His first teacher was Mrs Katonáné Szabó… More

About the Programme

The compositions of Mendelssohn and Grieg are connected by inspirations gotten from the northern landscape and culture, as well the experience of travelling. Mendelssohn went to the British Isles, which northern corner he reached of, in 1829, on he invitation of a great English musician George Thomas Smart and the Royal Philharmonic Society. More than one musical work preserve the elemental effect of the Scottish nature on Mendelssohn preserves; two of them are going to be performed this time. The Hebrides Overture, which was composed as a draft already in1829, but got completed only years later (for 1832), was inspired by an existing cavern, by the Fingals Cave. The most ambitious "Scottish" work of the Hamburg-born composer,  the Symphony in A Minor which already includes Scottish folk music references in its second and fourth movements, was conceived in 1829, but got finished only in 1842. Edward Grieg’s Piano Concerto is also in A minor and uses folk music elements, as well. The Norwegian composer penned this composition of him during a journey in Denmark; it is not only one of the most important works of his oeuvre, but also one of the most important and most popular piano concertos of the 19th century.