Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Gergely Kesselyák

Soloist

Júlia Pusker

violin

Marianna Váradi

sopran

Béla Bartók Girls Choir

(chorus master: Attila Kertész)

About the Programme

There is Ferenc Liszt’s art in the focus of the Pannonicum Series’s forth concert. It will be heard the master’s Dante Symphony, finished in 1856, which was planned to have three movements according to the main locations of the Divina Commedia – Hell, Purgatorio, and Paradise. At the end, partly because of Wagner’s critique, only the first two movements had been completed and at the third place, Liszt put a Magnificat. The specialty of the latter one is that there is also a singing voice in it; the two-part female choir sings a Gregorian melody: “My Soul Exalts the Lord.” Some of the characters who played a role int he creation of the Dante symphony (e.g. Liszt, Wagner, Grafin Caroline Sayn-Wittgenstein) are the personae Gyula Fekete’s opera Excelsior, premiered in  2011, which is about the Hungarian composer’s life, unfolding in France and Germany. After the premiere, Fekete also wrote a suite transcript, in which he magnified the most important parts of the piece. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who had been just hundred years old in 1856 and whose centennial celebrations in Vienna performed Liszt, as well, composed the most of his violin concertos between 1773 and 1779. The fifth one int he line, the Violin Concerto in A major is going to be played by the Pannon Philharmonic with Júlia Pusker as the soloist.