Rolando Villazón song recital

1 October 2019

Rolando Villazón song recital
1 October 2019, 7:30 pm — 10 pm
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Versatility - this is what journalists consider to be the key attribute of Rolando Villazón's personality. And a look through his discography indeed shows an astounding variety of styles and genres, as the list of recordings attests: ranging from Monteverdi's one-on-one duel Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore to Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isölde, Verdi's La traviata and Don Carlos, arias from Gounod and Massenet and Puccini's La bohème, it begs the question of whether Villazón is not at ease with any style. The story of how he became a singer is also not a everyday one. One day a complete stranger rang the doorbell of his Mexico City flat: it was the baritone Arturo Nieto, who had come to say that a friend of his lived next door and could often hear the young man singing - in the shower… The neighbour realised what a treasure the bathroom aria-singer possessed and told the baritone, who then took the trouble to let Villazón know that he should start to do something with his talents. At this concert, the tenor will be guiding the audience through a relatively unfamiliar world: the Spanish and Latin American songs he has selected will captivate listeners with their unique atmosphere, vibrant temperament and exotic colours.

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Fonó Band: Atyai ág (Paternal Branch)

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Following in the footsteps of research by Zoltán Kodály, the Fonó Band explores Hungarian folk music's Eastern connections. Since 1997, the eMeRTon- and Zoltán Kodály Award-winning group has based its repertoire on Hungarian folk music as well as the instrumental and vocal traditions of other peoples of the Carpathian Basin. Still, their musical profile is inseparable from their collaborations with prestigious practitioners of classical music, contemporary dance and literature. Among others, they've worked with the Ensemble Justiniana opera company, violinist Vilmos Szabadi, pianist Márta Gulyás and early music ensemble Musica Profana, as well as with Sándor Kányádi, Ferenc Temesi and Pál Závada. Their 2012 album Vadbarokk presented the relationship between Hungarian folk and Baroque music, referencing Zoltán Kodály himself who, in his study The Hungarian Character in Music wrote: 'One of our hands is held by the Nogais, the Votyaks and the Cheremis, the other by Bach and Palestrina'. In 2017, also inspired by Kodály's work, they staged their production Paternal Branch in the spirit of Hungarian folk music's Eastern connections. In that production, the Balkar, Nogai, Bashkir and Kumyk guests who Gergely Agócs met in his collection trips in the East revealed the parallels between Hungarian folk music and the musical folklore of Turkik Kipchak peoples. It appears the time has arrived for Hungary's Turkik cultural relatives to take a place in its cultural life.

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Gábor Hontvári studied at Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy of Music, qualifying as a conductor after studying under András Ligeti, Ádám Medveczky and Valér Jobbágy. Since 2015 he has been studying at Weimar's University of Music Franz Liszt, in a course led by Nicolás Pasquet and Gunter Kahlert. In 2014, he won first prize and the audience prize at the Rezső Lantos Choir Conducting Competition, and the next year went on to take second place and the audience prize at the Seventh Central German Colleges Conducting Competition. He took another second place and audience prize this year at Campus Dirigieren. Since the 2019/20 season, Hontvári has served as the first conductor and deputy music director at Würzburg's Mainfranken Theater. Founded in 1945, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra has over the course of its history played under such conductors as Tibor Szőke, Miklós Lukács, Géza Oberfrank, Tamás Gál and Gábor Takács-Nagy. Currently under the direction of Daniel Boico, the ensemble is enjoying the most successful - and in terms of its artistic development, the most forward-looking - period in its history. Supported by Classical Futures Europe and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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