In 2023, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra will continue to offer brilliant programs for classical music enthusiasts. The regulars at our season pass concerts and the members of the orchestra’s Circle of Friends form a community worth joining, since beyond serving as a musical experience, quality concerts give a place where people can enjoy meeting in person.
The orchestra has been giving seasonal performances in Budapest since 1947, in prestigious concert halls such as the Franz Liszt Music Academy, the Müpa Budapest and the magnificent Festetics Palace, with renowned conductors and outstanding soloists.
The highly successful Tibor Szőke season pass will be launched in the second half of the 2022/23 season, on 12 January 2023 at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest's Müpa Budapest, and altogether will consist four concerts.
At the first concert, on January 12, our audience will hear a Beethoven recital conducted by János Kovács. From Beethoven’s admirable oeuvre, Symphonies No. 1 and No. 5 (“Fate”) will be performed, along with one of the composer’s earlier works, the concert aria Ah perfido! (Ah Deceiver!), with the soprano Klára Kolonits. Although at the time Beethoven was alien from the world of opera, this work was still a success and has been frequently performed in the composer's lifetime and ever since.
The second concert on February 9 will be conducted by Róbert Farkas, Chief Conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. The program will include masterpieces by Mahler and Tchaikovsky. The evening will feature pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya, a living legend who was born in Tbilisi in 1945 and has lived in Austria since 1978. She performs in the world’s most famous concert halls and has released numerous recordings. In this concert, she will play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major. The concert concludes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, which originally consisted of five movements, but the second movement was later removed by the composer. This movement is Blumine, a beautiful, romantic floral piece which is the overture to the concert and definitely deserves to be heard by the audience of our day.
With spring approaching, our orchestra will step on the stage with real world stars on March 16, 2023. The soloist will be the violinist Maxim Vengerov, a successor of the legendary Russian Violin School, whose playing fascinates violinists all over the world. Gábor Takács-Nagy, the permanent guest conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Beethoven Forever evening, whose brilliant career as a violinist brings extraordinary sensitivity to his conducting on every occasion. The program includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), „the hymn of heroism and heroic behaviour”, according to music historian Dénes Bartha. Maxim Vengerov will perform Beethoven’s famous Violin Concerto.
On the fourth concert of the Masterpass on May 4, the ’The Geniuses of Romanticism’ evening will feature popular works by Berlioz and Liszt, conducted by Grammy Award-winning conductor Charles Dutoit. The two composers met and became friends around 1830. Together they coined the idea of the symphonic poem. The concert will feature Liszt’s first Piano Concerto in E flat major, performed by János Balázs, Liszt and Kossuth Prize-winning musician, as well as Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and the Symphonie Fantastique, which still sounds modern because of the many forms of the fixa idea that permeates it.
For further information on the program and pass purhcase options, please visit our website: https://mavzenekar.hu/szoke-tibor-mesterberlet-2022-2023/
We Wish You All a Happy New Year Full of Music! kíván mindenkinek a MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar!
