The central concept of this last performance in a joint series of the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok and the Palace of Arts is the human desire to possess the unattainable. The unattainable as a devilish temptation is at the same time one of the prerequisites for knowledge and growth. The works by Tallis and Mozart featured here technically make no compositional sense: the 40-part composition by Tallis mostly uses only three voices, while the quodlibet which crowns the last movement of the Mozart sy...mphony evokes the climax of a four-part fugue which no one has ever successfully written. For a long time for succeeding generations, Bach's Chaconne seemed an unattainable temptation; it was persistently doubted that the work had been written for solo violin (hence the orchestral transcription), as its musical and technical difficulties far outstripped the seemingly diabolical virtuosity of the Romantic period. The work which closes this concert was written by Mahler as a prelude for his boundless reinterpretation of the Faustian idea, in which the cosmic dimensions of life and death, faith and doubt, damnation and apotheosis are laid before us.
Presented by: Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, Palace of Arts
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