Danubia Orchestra Óbuda A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Domonkos Héja, founding conductor of the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, returns to his ensemble for this recital. One of the foremost of the young Hungarian conductor generation, he spent six years (2005–2011) at the opera house of Chemnitz in Germany as chief conductor. The Saxony town lies barely 40 km from Zwickau, birthplace of Robert Schumann. It was here that the German composer wrote his unfinished youthful symphony, which bears strong resemblances to Beethoven’s style and of which concert hall performances are extremely rare. The numbering and chronology of Schumann’s symphonies is a legendary tangle: he composed his symphony number one at the age of 31, but this was also when he wrote what is now known as his last symphony, the revised fourth. In any case Schumann’s world is full of conundrums with its literary and personal connections and music history references; moreover, his music is extremely exciting from other aspects: the works are interspersed with a complicated motif network. It is as though Symphony No. 4 in D minor is a masterful exposition of a single concept, though one of his ‘later’ creations, the Cello Concerto in A minor, composed when he was 40, follows a similar principle. It would be hard to think of a person better suited to perform the solo part of this latter work than two-time Kossuth Prize-winner Miklós Perényi.