Concerto Budapest & UMZE Chamber Ensemble A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The first part of this Concerto Budapest and UMZE Chamber Orchestra concert deals with visual experiences transformed into music. Zsolt Durkó’s composition Ludus stellaris is a sound projection of the constellation, while the grand orchestral Nudes by Árpád Solti could also serve as a guided tour of a museum. The latter – hiding Liszt references in its material – begins at French Realism and arrives at Surrealism via Impressionism. In 2011 a critic wrote about the prize-winning composition at the New Hungarian Music Forum composers’ competition that “it recreates with great care the symphonic style of the turn of the 20th century. And while from the composition’s principal threads it is rather the single tones that tend to remain in the listener’s memory, the individual movements and movement sections also have their very marked, unique profile.” The second half of the concert is given over to two moving works from the final creative periods of András Szőllősy and Sándor Veress. Both works engage in a lively dialogue with music history and the mature Baroque and First Viennese School traditions; Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra is an experiment in the synthesis of the genres typical of these two periods.