Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera’s Liszt Concert
18 October 2024 | 7.30 pm
Müpa Budapest Festival Theatre


#Orchestral concert
#Classical music
Liszt:
Festive Sounds – symphonic poem
Liszt:
Four Forgotten Waltzes, No. 2, 3 (arranged by Zoltán Kocsis)
Liszt:
Die Macht der Musik (Selmeczi György átirata)
Liszt:
Psalm 13
Liszt:
Prometheus – symphonic poem
Featuring:
Brigitta Kele, Adorján Pataki – voice
Conductor:
György Selmeczi
Choirmaster:
Szabolcs Kulcsár
The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera and its acting artistic director, György Selmeczi bring a programme to Budapest that fills a long-felt need. The compositions in the concert programme offer a particularly striking testimony to the complexity of the composer’s creative character, yet they are regrettably rarely performed. György Selmeczi complied the music for the stage fantasy Saints and Demons in 2011, for the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth, and it includes several of the composer’s works, including the monumental song, Die Macht der Musik. The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera’s concert explores the question that Liszt was so preoccupied with: the tragic duality of the human spirit, its destructive and creative nature, the eternal struggle between faith and unbelief.
#Orchestral concert
#Classical music
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