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

Gábor Boldoczki

trumpet

After his celebrated debut at the Salzburg Festival 2004, the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten ran the headline:  "A softly tongued articulation, the greatest agility, an extremely self-confident embouchure, a coloratura style ... a soloist of this quality refines every piece of… More

About the Programme

At this concert, in all works you are going to hear, there will be a determining role of the trumpet and the brass instruments in general. The music literature does not abound with trumpet concertos, but in the baroque and classical period, several major composers (including Telemann, Vivaldi, Mozart and Hummel) composed in this genre. Joseph Haydn's E flat major concerto, which was composed in 1796, is really special: it was written for a special instrument, the ’Klappentrompete’ (keyboard trumpet), which is able to play the full chromatic scale with its holes. Anton Bruckner's last completed orchestral work, the Symphony No.8 is special because of its extent and apparatus: an enormous orchestra, which includes a large brass section, has the  mission to interpret the grim vision of the composer in an hour-and-a-half-long composition, which is monumental, even compared to the Brucknerian dimensions. Much more relaxed than the dramatic mood of the Symphony No.8 is Richard Strauss’s miniature written for trumpets, trombones, horns, and timpani, which, like its title indicates, was a commission music composed for the first ball of the Vienna Philharmonic, in 1924.