Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Howard Williams

One of Britain’s most experienced conductors on the international platform, Howard Williams has covered a formidable range of work both in the opera house and concert hall, with a quite exceptionally large and broadly-based symphonic repertoire and over seventy opera titles to his credit.
In the UK, he has… More

Soloist

István Várdai

cello More

Kristóf Baráti

violin More

About the Programme

To Hector Berlioz's artistic habit, the large-scale, brilliant orchestral tableaux are close. This is illustrated by the intermission music of his opera Benvenuto Cellini: the Roman Carnival, too. The main characters of the play, a love couple is planning their escape from their undeserved position under the cover of the carnival. The vibrant, colorful folk fest music also evokes the love duet of the first act of the opera. The Double Concerto for Violin and Cello is the last orchestra work by Johannes Brahms. He and Joseph Joachim, the Hungarian violist who had been his patron at launching his career, estranged from each other after a debate of private nature. With the violin solo of this work dedicated to Joachim, Brahms could convince his friend for reconciliation. After the first movement, unusually structured for the Classic thinking, comes a clear song form, typical for German Romanticism and a perky rondo. Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.2 in E minor, which he wrote at the peak of his career, is a 19th century work in stylistic sense. The first movement, which  opens with a slow introduction, with its floating melodies, the 2nd one with its macabre characteristic, and the 3rd one with its idyllic sound, and the finale with linking all of these together harmoniously amaze a listener.