Pannon Philharmonic

Soloist

Csaba Bencze

trombone

Mecsek Female Choir

(chorus master: Attila Kertész)

About the Programme

“Preludium to the Afternoon of a Faune” this was the title Claude Debussy gave his piece composed in 1892. The composer who felt himself attached to the often dreamlike poetry of Mallarmé composed a Prelude to one of his poems. The piece does not follow the happenings; it does rather show us colours and atmospheres: the laziness of the faune on a muggy afternoon and the airy play of the nymphs surrounding him. The Englishman Derek Bourgeois hoping that his Trombone concerto will be regarded with interest in the worlds of both classical and jazz music composed a concerto of 3 movements satisfying all wishes. He adapted the orchestra accompaniment of the concerto for wind instruments and for only brass instruments and thus it could reach an even bigger public. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was merely 17 when he started to compose an overture to Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The most important events of the play can be found and heard in the music and thus made the charming music a public’s favourite. Another 17 years passed before he amended the existing parts to an accompanying music. Even if we separate the music from the play we can find compact pieces of art: such as the Scherzo, the Intermezzo, the Notturno as well as the Wedding March.