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

Zsuzsi Tóth

soprano

Andrea Meláth

alto

László Kálmán

tenor (Evangelist)

Szabolcs Hámori

bass

About the Programme

Georg Friedrich Handel, who spent most of his life on British soil, had worked on the Messiah, which finally was premiered in Dublin in 1742, since 1741. The three-part-long, monumental work, containing a total of fifty pieces (recitatives, arias, choruses and orchestral inlets), is an integral part of the composer’s biblical and mythological oratorios written in the1730s (e.g. Alexander’s Day, Saul, Israel in Egypt). Yet the complexity of it tops all the others, and it is still Handel's - in fact the whole of Baroque music’s - one of the greatest and most analyzed composition. The text, entirely extracted from the Bible (and also mostly from the Old Testament) was compiled by the poet Charles Jennens, who had already worked with th master, an honorary Englishman. At this performance, the first-prize-winner young tenor of last year’s Leipzig Bach Competition, Dávid Szigetvári and his several times awarded colleagues – Emőke Baráth (soprano), Andrea Meláth (alto) and István Kovács (bass) - sing solo.