Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Zoltán Peskó

Soloist

Guy Braunstein

Guy Braunstein was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and studied the violin there and later in New-York with Glenn Dictrow and Pinchas Zuckerman. He started performing as a soloist (and a chamber musician) at a young age, has played with leading… More

About the Programme

Since 1975, the 1st of October is the World Music Day, as the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin initiated and proposed it. On this day, music is celebrated throughout the world, especially the so-called „classical music” which has been and in the future could be the essential and vital part of our life if we work for it. Musicians for the music, „Music for Music” as we quote the title of our concert series, has been being known for a couple of years.

Antonin Dvořák /1841-1904/: Romance in F minor, op.11
The world-renowned master of the Czech romantic music enriched the orchestrated repertory of the violinists with a concerto and a romance. The Romance, composed in 1873, was rearranged for solo violin with piano or orchestra accompaniment from the slow movement of his violin quartet in F minor by Dvořák himself.

Alban Berg /1885-1935/: Violin Concerto
The Master of the „Second Vienna School” led by Arnold Schönberg, created this violin concerto, one of his most important works in his last year and dedicated it, according to the score’s title page, „to a memory of an angel”. This „angel” was Manon Gropius, – daughter of Walter Gropius, a famous Bauhaus-architect and Alma Mahler – who also died in 1935, in polio. The composer chose the dodecaphonic main theme of this two-movement-concerto so that it refers more to the traditional, tonal relations than his former works

Ludwig van Beethoven /1770-1827/: Romance in F major, op.50
Although Beethoven as a musician himself was an outstanding pianist, he was very fond for the violin too, what is proved by his ten violin-piano sonatas and his violin concerto in D major. Between these two genres are the two romances with orchestration, composed in 1802. The Romance in F major has become especially popular.

Ludwig van Beethoven/1770-1827/: Symphony No.7, in A major, op.92
Beethoven composed this officially program-less, but by Wagner as „the apotheosis of the dance” called symphony in 1811/12. It deserves this „subtitle” since the most determinative element is the dance rhythmic, in all of the four movements.

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