Vilmos Szabadi and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The MÁV Symphony Orchestra’s concert under the leadership of Miklós Kocsár showcases excerpts from Liszt’s principal work, Christ oratorio, Erkel’s popular Hunyadi overture and two rarely performed 20th century Hungarian compositions. The conductor’s father, Miklós Kocsár, composed Symphonic Ballad in 1994 to mark the quarter century of the establishment of the Szeged Symphony Orchestra. Originally, composer István Vántus had been given the commission, which was left uncompleted following his death, so Miklós Kocsár used the Vántus framework when writing his own composition. Before Kocsár’s work, however, the audience are given a recital of a masterpiece with the solo played by Liszt Prize winner and two-times MIDEM award winner Vilmos Szabadi: the Violin Concerto in C minor by Ernő Dohnányi, written in post-Romantic style, the first piece completed in 1950 after the artist settled in the US.