Not every conductor is capable of fully conveying the extremes of this composition, but Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, an old favourite of Hungarian audiences and the winner of Hungarian Television’s First International Conducting Competition, certainly is. This concert promises a unique work, and a unique performance.
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Last event date: Thursday, May 02 2024 7:30PM
Program
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture, op. 84
HECTOR BERLIOZ: Le carnaval romain – overture, op. 9
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HECTOR BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi
Very little music condenses so much desire and passion, and also projects so many visions on to the canvas of our imagination, as Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, one of the greatest masterpieces of the early Romantic era. Not every conductor is capable of fully conveying the extremes of this composition, but Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, an old favourite of Hungarian audiences and the winner of Hungarian Television’s First International Conducting Competition, certainly is.
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was seven or eight years older than the members of the great Romantic generation – who were born around 1810-11 – so it is understandable that the most famous piece of his career, the Symphonie fantastique (1830), was composed when Schumann, Chopin and Liszt were still writing their early works. This symphony is one of the very first works of authentic programme music, and has a powerful desire to paint pictures and moods. Reveries – Passions, A Ball, Scene in the Fields, March to the Scaffold, Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath – the titles of the movements reveal the variable moods and imaginative modes of expression in the music.
The first part of this concert prior to Berlioz’s symphony consists of two shorter orchestral works. Beehoven‘s Egmont Overture is an expression of the elemental desire for freedom, while Berlioz‘s Roman Carnival Overture is characterized by an overwhelming sense of joie de vivre, energy and festive ebullience
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi was born in Iwaki in 1940. His work became widely known in Hungary after he won a prestigious Budapest music competition in 1974. After the death of János Ferencsik, Kobayashi was the principal conductor of the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Today, he is conductor laureate of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also principal conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
This season of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra revolves around the spirit of Zoltán Kocsis. In November, we commemorate the anniversary of his death with a concert, while on his birthday at the end of May we, together with the Academy of Music, are organising the Day of Hungarian Classical Music with the intention of creating a tradition, nurturing old values and encouraging the birth of new ones.
Chamber concert by artists of the Hungarian National Philharmonic We pay tribute to the French impressionist composer one day after his 150th birthday by celebrating the influence he had on his contemporaries and on the generation that followed him.
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 JOHANNES BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 *** BÉLA BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Concert format opera performance in three acts, with two intermissions, in Italian
Concert-format opera performance in two acts, with one intermission, in Italian
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