This season, the Hungarian National Philharmonic welcomes audiences with a colourful programme of numerous extraordinary works from music history at the evenings of the Open Rehearsal Room series. At the first concert in the series, general music director Zoltán Kocsis, members of the orchestra and the Male Chorus of the Hungarian National Choir perform a selection of works from 200 years of music history.
The programme features an instrumental composition from the early years of the 19th... century by Gioachino Rossini, a composer known more for his operas, as well as an epochal masterpiece from the same period by the 20-year-old Franz Schubert, the song The Trout (Die Forelle). This leads into the piano quintet composed two years later, the fourth movement of which comprises variations on this song, for which we welcome Zoltán Kocsis at the piano. Like Schubert's output of Lieder, the Five Pieces for Orchestra by another Viennese composer, Anton Webern, is an aphoristically concise piece of barely four minutes which had a huge impact on the history of music.
Also featured is a genuinely unusual work by Samuel Barber, the American composer of the rightly famous Adagio for Strings. Written in memory of a fallen soldier in the Spanish Civil War, the work entitled A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map is a setting for male chorus and timpani of a poem of the same name by Stephen Spender, the English poet who witnessed the conflict from close quarters. Finally, we also get the chance to hear an exciting piece by one of the popular figures on today's American contemporary music scene. Born in 1979, Andy Akiho wrote his piece Stop Speaking for snare drum and pre-recorded speech to be played back during the performance.
Presented by: Hungarian National Philharmonic
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