Harmonia Caelestis A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Founded in 1995, Aura Musicale are a truly exciting period performance ensemble from Hungary. Their artistic director is Balázs Máté, who is the first cellist of Jordi Savall, Mark Minkowski and numerous other ‘early music’ big guns. Their repertoire embraces not only masterpieces from the Baroque age but also numerous discoveries: they have recorded orchestral suites by Bratislava-born Sigismund Kusser, perhaps the most talented disciple of Lully, as well as orchestral works by the Italian composers Valentini, Lanzetti and Tessarini. True to their creed, their concert programme features both hits and rarely heard masterpieces: Corelli’s ‘Christmas’ concerto and a cello concerto by Vivaldi (with soloist Balázs Máté), a popular Bach cantata employing a soprano solo, as well as Gloria, a work attributed to Händel and discovered in 2001. Dora Pavlíkova, one of the rising stars of Czech opera, sings in the latter two works and in the three cantatas from the Prince Pál Esterházy series Harmonia caelestis. The concert borrows its name from the latter series, but in fact all the works in this recital are characterized by ‘celestial harmony’.