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

Erika Miklósa

sopran

About the Programme

Although II. Joseph - regarding Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio - even worried about the possibility of writing a German-language opera at all, by the 19th century –besides the symphony– the opera became the "drawing" genre of German music. To launch that –besides Mozart– Carl Maria von Weber, whose one of the most prominent works was the opera Euryanthe, which is now unperformable because of the weakness of its libretto so usually only its overture is played, had the biggest role. It shows Weber’s importance in the genre that at his reburial in Dresden, Wagner said the memorial speech. Wagner enjoyed a similar appreciation by Richard Strauss, who with his orchestral and stage works become the summarizing figure of the romantic German music so that he was also the first great composer of the modern era as well. He wrote his “Lied”-s with piano accompaniment for poems by Clemens Brentano at the end of the First World War and orchestrated them at the beginning of the second one. Like Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich, who had successfully renewed 19th century German symphonic traditions in the early 20th century, played a dual role for the Russians. The success of his efforts was shown when the premiere of his Fifth Symphony was followed by a nearly a half-hour applause.