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

Charlotte Coulaud

piano

Charlotte Coulaud was born in Paris in a musician family and began studying piano at the age of five. In 1999, at eight years old, she performed the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s D major concerto with the National Radio… More

About the Programme

Lord Byron's dramatic poem Manfred, written in 1817, was set to music for the first time not by Pyotr Tchaikovsky; in the mid-19th century, Robert Schumann had already composed a stage work from it. Tchaikovsky's Manfred symphony, written in 1885, by using some of the main motif of the story follows classic principles of editing. There is also a piano transcription of the four-movement work: scarcely a year after its premiere (in 1887) the then fourteen-year-old Sergei Rachmaninov reworked the composition for his favourite instrument. The two composers even personally met each other at the home concerts of Nikolai Zverev, known as one of the turn-of-the-century Moscow's most important piano teachers, whose pupils were Scriabin and Rachmaninoff for a while; and Tchaikovsky, being satisfied with the transcripts, encouraged his younger colleague to keeping on. What came after that is known: one of the most significant oeuvre of the 20th-century Russian music history, which is mainly dominated by works for the piano. The virtuosic and at the same time dramatic piano solo part of the critically acclaimed Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, completed in 1899, is going to be played by one of the great French talents of today, Charlotte Coulaud.