Ádám Medveczky & Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra is a unique formation: it comprises selected academy students who are replaced every couple of years, the students representing and, in turn, passing on the artistic tradition of this 140-year-old institution. As well as having a teaching function, this ensemble give concerts with a wide range of conductors who themselves convey the aforementioned Liszt Academy tradition. Ádám Medveczky (who marks his 75th birthday in 2016) is just such a conductor. The Kossuth, Liszt and Bartók–Pásztory Prize-winning artist has countless ties to the Liszt Academy, where he once led orchestral practice and played a part in the training of would-be opera singers and conductors.
As with the performers, the composers of the works played at this concert serve to burnish the reputation of the Liszt Academy. As well as the founder and eponym Ferenc Liszt, Pál Járdányi is also one of the academy’s prides: between 1946 and 1959 he was a teacher of folk music, losing this position due to his “harmful political views” after participating in the work of the 1956 Liszt Academy revolutionary committee. His Vörösmarty Symphony also dates from this time, while the Faust Symphony that features in the second half of the concert is in all likelihood the base pattern for this programme symphony.