Music

108 Minutes to Barnabás Dukay
free style hermes
MR Symphony Orchestra
Trio Lignum 10+1

108 Minutes to Barnabás Dukay

2008.10.11 19:30
Millenáris Teátrum

Invisible Fire on a Winter Night
– a prelude to inner light –

By the Well – at a Time of Flooding Waters
– Paraphrase on a tone poem –
I. Meeting a Woman
II. Tracing the Primeval Mist
III. Alone in the Night...,

Taking a Rest in One’s Own Silence
Tone poem

Hearsay about Light and Affection
Canons and symphonies

Craving that Sets You on Fire
– giving yourself up freely –
free proportionate canon

To the Setting Sun
sacrificial music

Glowing Fires
nonet

...,like Wind Among Cliffs
instrumental motet

Dew Glistening in Fading Footprints
Motet

..., that There Remains no Time [world première]
canzona

Conductor > Zoltán Rácz

With > Dezső Ránki | Edit Klukon [piano] | UMZE Ensemble [conductor > Zoltán Rácz] | Amadinda Percussion Group | Schola Hungarica [conductor > László Dobszay] | Barnabás Dukay


The likes of Barnabás Dukay might be found among the 15th–16th century Dutch masters of polyphony or the mystic thinkers of the Middle Ages much rather than among his own contemporaries. His works composed of extremely complex structures under a smooth surface are capable of bringing time to a standstill. The attentive listener of a Dukay piece might suddenly find himself in a new dimension: an experience that does not come easily, on the contrary, it requires serious concentration from performer and listener alike. The concert that offers a horizontal and vertical cross-section of the life-work, Dezső Ránki and Edit Klukon play Dukay’s works for two pianos. The podium will be taken by the UMZE Ensemble and Schola Hungarica, a group widely regarded as the most authentic performer of contemporary liturgical music.
Co-organised with New Hungarian Music Society.
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free style hermes

2008.10.12 19:30
Tivoli

Fernando Riederer [A | BR] > Iniciacao [2006]
Fausto Romitelli [I] > Trash TV Trance [2002]
Varga Judit [H] > Auge
Chaya Czernowin [IL] > Six Miniatures and a simultane Song [1998]
Jakub Sarwas [PL] > Queen-tet
Fausto Romitelli [I] > Professor Bad Trip. Lesson 1 [2000]

Conductor > Csaba Ajtony

With > Central European Chamber Orchestra
Design > VJ-Gruppe
It is not by accident that the latest project by the Central European Chamber Orchestra, an international group founded in Vienna, has chosen itself the name of Hermes, the god connecting and mediating between the divine and the human worlds. After all, the concerts to be held in the cities of eastern and central Europe connect cultures and generations and create a link between performers and audiences. In this project, the group lead by Csaba Ajtony is scheduled to visit four cities in four countries: Vienna, Katowice, Bratislava and – joining the programme of the Autumn Festival – Budapest. Each concert features, besides works by young composers with ties to the group, pieces by musicians of significance in European contemporary music – the latter tend to represent the somewhat older generation. Each concert is enriched by the visual experience of video installations by the 4youreye video jockey group.
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MR Symphony Orchestra

2008.10.14 19:30
Palace of Arts – Festival Theatre

Zsigmond Szathmáry > Three pieces for orchestra [2002]
Gyula Csapó > Concerto for viola and a Changing Environment [2008] | world première
László Tihanyi > Twenty night-meditations [2005]
Gyula Bánkövi > Les fleurs du vent [2004]

Conductor > László Tihanyi

With > Rivka Golani [IL | viola]


The orchestral concert by the Hungarian Radio Symphony offers a snapshot of Hungarian composition in the first decade of the 21st century. The works by the four composers representing three generations were all born in the past few years and while they share many ideas, the generational differences are also clearly apparent. Of the older generation the concert features Zsigmond Szathmáry (1939), a significant organist living in Germany, of the younger we have Gyula Bánkövi (1966) who has also established his name as a radio producer, while the middle generation is represented by László Tihanyi (1956) and Gyula Csapó (1955), two musicians who went to the same class at the Academy of Music. The works on the programme had seen earlier performances with the exception of one: the world première of a viola concerto by Gyula Csapó now living in Canada will take place at the Autumn Festival. The work is dedicated to the world famous viola player, Rivka Golani,
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Trio Lignum 10+1

2008.10.19 19:30
Katona József Theatre

“Lignum Hits of a Different Kind”
G. Machaut > My Beginning is My End
F. Landini > Amarsi gli alti
J. des Prés > Proportionate Canon
W. Byrd > Hallelujah
J. Bull > In Nomine IV
J. Haydn > Pieces for a Musical Clock
J. Senleches > En ce gracieux temps

“Premières for Today”
Zoltán Jeney > Wohin
László Melis > Tattling Tomcat Tales
Kondor Ádám > Grand Recit
Vidovszky László > Breaking News
László Sáry > Supplements – A Few Sounds …
József Sári > Toast
Zsolt Serei > Festive Toast

“Film Museum”
György Selmeczi > Movie of Margó [Angi Vera]
Máté Hollós > Valse triste [Return]
György Vukán > Valse [Fifth Stamp]
Emil Petrovics > Fanfan [Pupil]
István Márta > Trio 1-2 [Mobil Film]
László Sáry > Bells in the Evening Wind [Nádler I. portréfilm]
Zoltán Jeney > French Four [Szinbád]

The members of the trio > György Lakatos [bassoon] | Csaba Klenyán [clarinet] | Lajos Rozmán [clarinet]

With >
Réka Pelsőczy | Imre Földes | Gábor Máté | László Vidovszky


The Budapest Autumn Festival is to celebrate an almost forgotten birthday. Trio Lignum, Hungary’s number one woodwind trio was ten years old last year, an anniversary that went unnoticed in the world of Hungarian music. The trio was formed in 1997 as an occasional group by three musicians devoted to the music of our age. Their first concert that featured old (indeed, very old) as well as contemporary music came as a revelation. As the members of Trio Lignum point out, “Our paths met at a lucky moment in 1997. Together we discovered with great astonishment the inexhaustible world of the masters of Renaissance vocal music, including that of Ockeghem, Dufay or Machaut. The message of their work, its adaptability to our modern instruments, its connections with other ages, with classical and contemporary music have taken us to new, hardly explored areas of the repertoire.”
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