Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The next performance in the informative series by Gábor Hollerung pays tribute to Ferenc Fricsay, one of the most important Hungarian conductors of the 20th century, who was born in 1914 and died prematurely in 1962. Fricsay graduated from the Liszt Academy in 1933, but he had to wait until 1947 for world fame when he premiered a contemporary opera at the Salzburg Festival following the last minute withdrawal of Klemperer. He worked in Berlin and Munich, toured with Yehudi Menuhin and Géza Anda, and from the 1950s recorded prodigiously as exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon: his discography features Mozart operas, Bartók works and, of course, symphonies by his greatest idol, Beethoven. Gábor Hollerung has chosen to remember the conductor (who some critics said combined the virtues of both Toscanini and Furtwängler) with the 5th symphony, which gave the ailing Fricsay so much spiritual and mental energy.