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Liszt-Berlioz Marathon
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classical music, opera, theatre

Pannon Philharmonic

  • 6 February 2021, Saturday
  • 7 pm — 8 pm
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Conductor:

András Vass

Featuring:

viola
Máté Szűcs
  • Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16

We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for the Müpa Budapest audience to still be able to encounter the world's most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening - this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we will open Müpa Budapest's virtual concert hall and auditoriums - each night at the familiar times - by providing access to a single unforgettable performance from past years.

The performance will be broadcasted on our website and YouTube channel.


Any list of those earlier musicians who greatly inspired the Romantics has to include Paganini. If Beethoven influenced the way composers thought, Paganini proved inspiring in the areas of how instruments were handled and the virtuosity cult of the Romantic era. Liszt's piano playing followed the example... of Paganini's violin bravura, while it was at the urging of Paganini himself that Berlioz began work in 1834 on one of his most wonderful works: the symphony Harold en Italie. Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's Liszt-Berlioz Marathon offers a chance to encounter this work.
Berlioz and Paganini first met in 1833, at a concert of the French composer's works. The 'devil's violinist' had nothing to play on his marvellous Stradivarius viola, so he asked Berlioz to write him a concerto. Work on the piece commenced, but the result proved a disappointment for Paganini: while he wanted to play continuously and virtuosically, Berlioz's work treated the viola and the orchestra as equal partners.
The piece was inspired by Lord Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. The viola can be regarded as the embodiment of a lonely hero cast out of society; its melancholy and pensive solos are his monologues. Like in the Symphonie fantastique, the listener's imagination is guided through the piece by programme titles: Harold in the Mountains, March of the Pilgrims, Serenade, At the Orgy of the Brigands. In addition to its unique interpretation of genre - as a work that is simultaneously a concerto and a symphony - Harold en Italie's two great virtues are its amazingly richly colourful painting of nature and its profound depiction of a soul.
With more than 200 years of history behind it, the Pannon Philharmonic is one of Hungary's versatile and exacting orchestras. András Vass has served as its permanent conductor since 2009. The world-famous Máté Szűcs served as the Berlin Philharmonic's principal violist between 2011 and 2018, when he joined the faculty of the Geneva University of Music as a professor.

Recording date: 5 February 2021


Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Müpa Budapest

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