Concerto Budapest A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

All Saints’ Day. Not the festival of mourning but rather one of remembrance and devotion. András Keller has compiled a programme for the concert of the Liszt Academy’s resident orchestra, Concerto Budapest, that represents three possible ways of approaching death. The concepts of death from the Old and New Testaments clash in a unique Baroque vision in the cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, the non plus ultra of requiem music by 22-year-old Bach. Requiem, one of the most mysterious pieces of not only Mozart’s oeuvre but music literature as a whole, is a dialogue on the impenetrable nature of death spoken in the refined language of Viennese classicism. On the other hand, the romantic vision of Richard Strauss talks in the overflowing prose of symphonic programme music about what awaits us at the moment of death, and what follows.