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

Andrei Gavrilov

piano

Andrei Gavrilov was born in Moscow in 1955 in the artistic family.  His father Vladimir Gavrilov was a great painter, mother pupil of Henrich Neuhaus was his first teacher. He graduated from central music school in Moscow in 1973 where… More

About the Programme

Rachmaninov and Shostakovich: two similarly inescapable figures of the 20th-century Russian music, but completely different in terms of their lives and their art. Rachmaninov was one of the last representatives of European Romanticism, whom exactly his Third Piano Concerto, considered as one of the most difficult ones of the genre, helped to find a new home in America after the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, leaving behind the silver era’s Russian culture. The initially modernist Shostakovich's life, by contrast, was closely intertwined with the history of the Soviet Union, and this connectivity throughout determined his work. His domestic perception was dotted with extreme twists: from the public enemy number one of communist arts policies became the most important composer of the Soviet Union and vice versa. During the time of composing and performing of one of his best-known orchestral pieces, the 1941 Leningrad Symphony, he was actually considered as a national hero, an artist ready to work for his country, who, with the language of music helps his fellow countrymen suffering in the war.