Contemporary Hungary
Can Mozart’s music sketches be developed and interpreted for an unconventional instrument, perhaps cymbals? How do you translate absurdist theatre into a chamber opera? How much is left of the original folk after songs arranged for piano are adapted for big band? You probably never entertained such thoughts, but – luckily for us! – artists from the Budapest Music Centre have. We will hear the results at the Małopolska Garden of Arts during the Festival of Contemporary Hungarian Music (8-10 June).
The event opens with a performance by one of Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles UMZE under the baton of Zoltán Rácz. Working with soloists (including the cymbal virtuoso Miklós Lukács), the artists present music by 20th and 21st-century composers such as György Ligeti, György Kurtág and Péter Eötvös. On 9 June, three singers, three instrumentalists and the conductor perform the opera 123 – one of three performances of the international project Out At S.E.A. (Someone Eats All) inspired by Sławomir Mrożek’s drama At Sea. The final evening is centred round experimental jazz and folk. Modern Art Orchestra under the baton of Kornél Fekete-Kovács performs Béla Bartók’s 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs arranged for big band.
Igor Kuranda, "Karnet" magazine
8 June 2017, 7pm
UMZE Chamber Ensemble
UMZE / Miklós Lukács – cymbal / Csaba Klenyán – clarinet / Éva Osztrosits – viola / József Balog, Zoltán Fejérvári – pianos / Aurél Holló, Zoltán Rácz – percussion / conductor: Zoltán Rácz
In programme::
György Ligeti (1923-2006): Etudes for piano – Vol.3.: Nr.15. White on white (1995) / No.16. Pour Irina (1997) / No.17. A bout de souffle (1998) / No.18. Canon (2001) / Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1937) // brake // Péter Eötvös (1944): da capo (2014) / György Kurtág (1926): Hommage a R. Sch. op.15d (1990) / László Vidovszky (1944): Promenade (2015)
9 June 2017, 7pm
Máté Balogh, Diana Soh, Christian Flury Out At. S.E.A (Someone Eats Al): 123
Maurice Lenhard – baritone / Bársony Péter – viola / Szilvia Vörös – mezzo-soprano / Ditta Rohmann – cello / Tivadar Kiss – tenor / Horia Dumitrache – clarinet / conductor: Lin Liao
10 June 2017, 7pm
Modern Art Orchestra: Bartók & Jazz
Modern Art Orchestra / László Gőz – trombone, bass trumpet / Miklós Lukács – cymbal / conductor: Kornél Fekete-Kovács
