Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis Soloists: Dezső Ránki, Edit Klukon, Fülöp Ránki – piano Bartók: Divertimento Mozart: Concerto for Three Pianos in F major, K. 242 Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, op. 93 Like the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Béla Bartók was commissioned by Paul Sacher to compose the Divertimento. He completed it in Switzerland in August 1939, in just a couple of days. Sacher and his ensemble premièred this three movement work for string orchestra in Basel in 1940 ...which, despite its title, is not light music for entertainment unlike the classical divertimento. Perhaps the most alien movement to this traditional concept is the slow middle movement which presents a very solitary and dark vision using the moving devices of Bartók’s “Music of the night” style. Mozart’s Concerto for Three Pianos is usually called the “Lodron Concerto” because the composer wrote it for Countess Antonia Lodron and her two daughters in Salzburg in 1776. The part written for the third piano is a good deal easier and less significant than those allotted to the other two soloists, for the most part it simply fills out the harmonies. Tonight’s performance is notable because the third piano will be played by the thirteen year old Fülöp Ránki while his parents, Dezső Ránki and Edit Klukon will be playing the two other piano solos. The piano concerto in F major will be followed by a symphony in the same key. Beethoven composed his Symphony No. 8 after completing his Seventh at what was, for him, remarkable speed. It was ready by October 1812 and premièred in 1814 at a concert together with the Seventh Symphony. Despite the differences, the two works can be seen as a pair. The Eighth Symphony also has a very upbeat mood and no slow movement, in its place is a rather jokey movement marked Allegretto scherzando. The National Philharmonic have played this symphony several times in their open air summer Beethoven concerts at Martonvásár, but are now playing it at the Palace of Arts for the very first time.
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