Zoltán Kocsis and Zugló Philharmonics Budapest A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Zoltán Kocsis, the conductor and Zoltán Kocsis, the arranger – this concert brings us closer to these two aspects of this most remarkable of Hungarian music personalities. Béla Bartók himself arranged for an orchestra five movements of his 1929 series Twenty Hungarian Folksongs, originally with piano accompaniment, just a few years after they were completed; Zoltán Kocsis added instrumentation for a full orchestra to provide enlightening power. This is followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, probably the most respected and analyzed creative work in Western music culture. “It is amazing that the work has not been buried under the mass of prose it has provoked,” wrote Claude Debussy when marvelling at the reams of explanatory and interpretative papers written on the subject of the Beethoven symphony, and of course the unblemished magnificence of “the Ninth”.