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

Zoltán Bánfalvi

violin

Dániel Papp

violin

József Balog

piano

About the Programme

Also in 2015, the gala concert greeting the city is for all the people of Pécs; this time, the local audience can enjoy the extraordinary interplay of the Pannon Philharmonic’s concertmasters. It will be an exceptional occasion as the three leading violinists of the ensemble is stepping on stage at the same time: Zoltán Bánfalvi is going to debut as a composer; in his double concerto, Dániel Papp is playing as soloists, and Márta Deák as the orchestra’s prime violinist.

The gala concert given on the occasion of the celebration of the city of Pécs will focus on "militant" works. In the opening 1812 overture, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky commemorated the battles of Borodino and Moscow, the turning point of the Napoleonic campaigns in Russia in 1882, thus just seventy years after the famous battles. The programme music composition, which is sometimes accompanied with gun shots at open-air concerts, highlights several important stations of the French-Russian war, characterizing the two nations with (folk)music motifs and quotations from  their national hymns, respectively. The Les Preludes, composed in 1854 on the French poet Lamartine’s Poetic Meditations, one of the best-known works of Ferenc Liszt was inspired also as programme music. The theme of struggle and victory appears in the fifth and final part of the symphonic poem; but according to the authorial intent, here is not some external enemy in the centre, but the human beings’ inside struggles and fights against their doubts. In-between the two masterpieces of the romantic era, you can hear a contemporary work, Zoltan Bánfalvi’s Double Concerto.