Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Kobajasi Kenicsiró

Soloist

Farkas Gábor

MÁV Symphonic orchestra

About the Programme

Kobayashi Kenichiro “exploded” into the public consciousness in Hungary in 1974, when he won the first International Conducting Competition of the Hungarian Television. Since then, the conductor, who later also led the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra, ha had a major international career. This time, Kobayashi will delight the audience with the most important concert pieces of the two leading Russian masters of the 19th century. If there are classical music "hits" than Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, first performed by Hans von Bülow in 1875, and Mussorgsky’s piano cycle, written at the almost same time, The Images of an Exhibition (and in particular its orchestral version by Maurice Ravel) should certainly be counted to them. They could thank themselves for their to-date-uninterrupted popularity not only because of their immediately recognizable melodies and colour richness, but probably of their "recycling” in the popular culture, as well: their most cited details serve as feedstock for rock pieces, film and advertising music, and signals.