VC LIVE | "Day of Listening" Contemporary Music Festival with Concerto Budapest

Tune in on November 5 at 6 AM, 8 AM, 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 12:30 PM, & 2 PM (ET) for an exciting day filled with enlightening contemporary music

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HOSTED BY: Concerto Budapest

Budapest, Hungary

By The Violin Channel

November 4, 2023

3 MIN READ

Tune in on November 5 at 6 AM, 8 AM, 9:30 AM, 11 AM, 12:30 PM, & 2 PM (ET) for an exciting day filled with enlightening contemporary music

Concerto Budapest is hosting the 5th annual Day of Listening Festival, which showcases contemporary music and creative compositions inspired by music across different ages. A series of six concerts will be performed over the course of one day across a variety of different venues this year. The last concert, which will be held at 2 PM ET, is programmed with a special dedication: To the victims of war and terrorism.

Hosted by music director and chief conductor of Concerto Budapest András Keller, the concert series will feature a roster of artists from Concerto Budapest, as well as other esteemed soloists and chamber musicians.

PROGRAM

Concert 1 (6 AM ET):

György Ligeti: Three Pieces for Two Pianos
- Görög Sisters
Dobrinka Tabakova: Concerto for Viola and Strings
- Maxim Rysanov - viola, Concerto Budapest
Máté Balogh: Tiefhornfantasie aus den Ostalpen (world premiere)
- Hunor Varga – horn, Concerto Budapest
- Conductor: Gergely Dubóczky

Concert 2 (8 AM ET):

Hindemith: Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon and Strings
- Gábor Devecsai – trumpet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon with Concerto Budapest
- Conductor: László Tihanyi
Roland Szentpáli: Abraham and Isaac (world premiere)
- Tibor Takács – tuba, Kános Benyus – horn
- Conductor: László Tihanyi
Alessio Elia: Celestial Keys, Second Call (world premiere)
- Concerto Budapest
- Conductor: László Tihanyi
Perényi Miklós: Per sette archi (world premiere)
- Concerto Budapest
- Conductor: Gergely Dubóczky
Zoltán Jeney: Sindbad - suit
- László Kéringer – tenor, András Keller – violin, Orsolya Kaczander - flute
  Concerto Budapest
- Conductor: András Keller

Concert 3 (9:30 AM ET)

Opus Jazz Club

Péter Eötvös: Para Paloma
- Miranda Liu - violin
Péter Eötvös: Adventures of the Dominant Seventh Chord
- Janka Szomor Mekis - viola
Péter Eötvös: A Call
- Miranda Liu - violin
Péter Eötvös: PSY
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Janka Szomor Mekis – viola, Lenka Petrovic – harp
Giovanni da Firenze: Quand’ Amor (revised by Ákos Zarándy)
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán - clarinet
Guillaume Dufay: Belle veullies moy retenir (revised by Ákos Zarándy)
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Ákos Zarándy: A csend határfényei (Border lights of silence – world premiere)
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet

Concert 4 (11 AM ET)

Gyula Csapó: Concerto per Pianoforte ed un ambiente che cambia (world premiere)
- Zoltán Fejérvári – piano
- Concerto Budapest conducted by Gergely Dubóczky

Concert 5 (12:30 PM ET)

Opus Jazz Club

Zoltán Jeney: Canone enigmatico
- Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Gábor Csalog: The Upper Light – 4 songs for soprano and piano
- Csilla Csővári – soprano, Gábor Csalog – piano
Zoltán Jeney: Soliloquium Nr 5 – for Péter Esterházy Péter
- Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
Ádám Kondor: In nomine (world premiere)
- Orsolya Winkler, Áron Soós – violin, Előd Soós – viola, János Aranyos – cello
László Tihanyi: 3 notes
- Orsolya Winkler – violin, XY – viola, János Aranyos - cello
László Tihanyi: 3 bagatelles for wind quintet
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon, Péter Lakatos – horn
György Ligeti: Six bagatelles from Musica Ricercata
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon, Péter Lakatos – hor

Concert 6 (2 PM ET)

Budapest Music Center Concert Hall

In memory of the victims of war and terrorism

Bernstein about the 9th Symphony of Beethoven
Beethoven: F major string quartet No. 16 Op. 135
III. Lento assai cantante tranquillo
- András Keller — violin, Zsófia Környei — violin, Szomer-Mekis Janka — viola, Ákos Takács — viola
Ravel: Deux Mélodies Hébraiques – Kaddish
- András Keller — violin, Czalog Gábor — piano
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
- Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
Péter Eötvös: Cadenza (from “Shadows”)
- Orsolya Kaczander – flute
Hindemith: Trauermusik
- Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
- Rysanov Maxim — viola
R. Strauss: Metamorphosen
- Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus
- András Keller — violin, Czalog Gábor — piano