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    Szilvia Csibi
classical music, opera, theatre

Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok

  • 1 February 2020, Saturday
  • 7:30 pm — 10 pm
  • one interval
  • Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Conductor:

Gábor Hollerung

Featuring:

mezzo-soprano
Kornélia Bakos
tenor
Zoltán Megyesi
bass
Csaba Szegedi
Budapest Academic Choral Society (choirmaster: Csaba Tőri)
the artists of the Central European Dance Theatre and the Feledi Project

Creator:

Choreographer and director
János Feledi
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
  • Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op. 60

The two works to be played at this concert in connected to each other in a surprisingly large number of ways. Both compositions clearly originate with Goethe, as the Faustian witches' sabbath scene plays a key role in each of them. In Berlioz's symphony, it appears in the closing segment, whereas Mendelssohn's choral cantata is itself the story of a witches' sabbath, a ballad which Goethe wrote expressly to be set to music. This will be the first time that Die erste Walpurgisnacht is being performed in Hungary in a fully staged version, with dancers joining the musicians in the production.

The two works date from around the same time: Berlioz wrote his symphony in 1830, while Mendelssohn completed the first version of his work in 1831. Also linking the two works is the duality of the modern legend of the witches' sabbath: the confrontation between the primeval pagan tradition and the Christian faith. At the climax of Berlioz's witches sabbath, we hear the melody of the Gregorian hymn of the Dies irae from the Christian requiem mass. With Mendelssohn, the people upholding the ancie...nt tradition against the bigoted Christians are the representatives of purity and faith, and they are symbolised at the end of the work with hymnal expressiveness resembling a Protestant chorale. Berlioz's creation is the first major work that expresses the spirit of the Faust drama without relating the story itself. At its centre is a hero, the creative Faustian individual whose dreams and visions are related in the five movements of the work. Mendelssohn's choral cantata, on the other hand, is an unusually dramatic component in the composer's oeuvre: following a tempestuous overture of sweeping power come a series of scenes missing the arias as they are understood in a traditional sense.



Presented by: Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, Müpa Budapest

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