Danubia Orchestra Óbuda A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Oliver von Dohnányi – a distant relation of Ernő Dohnányi – is not unknown to Hungarian audiences: he has been here several times, just a few years ago conducting Bellini’s Norma in the Palace of Arts with Edita Gruberova in the lead role. This time he leads the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda in a traditional overture-concerto-symphony concert. The opening is the String Orchestra Concerto by composer Péter Tiszai, an architect graduate but also student of composers György Orbán and János Vajda, followed by Liszt’s fiendishly difficult piano concerto Dance of Death, a paraphrase on the medieval hymn Dies irae, and then a key work of the Beethoven oeuvre, Symphony No. 5. The principal part of the Liszt work is performed by Gábor Farkas, winner of the Weimar International Liszt Competition in 2009.