Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Zoltán Kocsis

Zoltán Kocsis was born in 1952 in Budapest, began playing the piano at age five. From 1963, he studied piano and  composition at Béla Bartók Vocational Secondary School of Music; and then he got admitted to Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1968 as a student of Pál Kadosa and… More

Soloist

Szabolcs Zempléni

horn

Júlia Hajnóczy

sopran

About the Programme

Program:

• 
Bartók: Two Pictures - In Bloom; Village Dance
• 
R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No.2
• 
Debussy / Kocsis: Ariettes oubilées (Forgotten Romances)

• Debussy: Iberia

Deux Images (Two Pictures) – Béla Bartók gave this title to his 10th opus ion 1910. The title refers to Debussy’s Images. The impressionist landscape-like Blossom and the folk music-inspired Transylvanian idyll: Dance of the Villagers are connected by the mystical Bartókian logic.
Richard Strauss’s intimate relationship to a horn is family "heritage", through his horn player father. That is convincingly demonstrates by the illustrious horn parts he composed for his orchestral works and the two horn concerto of his. The Horn Concerto No.2 is his late work but sounds using the composer’s youth voice, combining heroic and idyllic.
The Ariettes oubliées (Forgotten Romances) by Claude Debussy are written to Verlaine’s poems. They are from the Romances sans paroles cycle. The 6th movement is a watercolour-like charivari; you could listen to Zoltán Kocsis’s transcription with orchestral accompaniment.
The Iberia is Debussy’s 3-part orchestral series’ 2nd piece. With the bustling of the vivid Spanish streets, the smell emanating from the Iberian, and the festivities’ coming and going, a night of a beautiful Spanish landscape unfolds before you.