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This concert has a wonderful venue. The gorgeous, Baroque styled Royal Castle in Gödöllö (in the suburbs of Budapest), built by the Grassalkovich Family.
Alex Szilasi pianist, just honoured with the Liszt Prize will perform a Chopin evening with 4 internationally acclaimed string players booked by Musix For You. The concert is part of the XIII. Liszt Fesztivál Gödöllö, and will be performed on original, authentic instrumentation.
The concert will be recorded by MTVA, the Hungarian Television.

Chopin: All the Walzes
Chopin: 2nd Piano Concerto in f minor, version with string quartet

Alex Szilasi – piano
Martin Reimann – violin
Hadrien Delmotte – violin
Örzse Adam – viola
Andrea László – violoncello

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Resident artist rediscovers the sound of Bruckner

A concert by Anima Eterna Brugge is always an adventure, especially when it takes us back into the 19th century. Like a true rediscoverer, Pablo Heras-Casado explores Bruckner’s Symphony no.3 in D minor – his ‘Wagner Symphony – a work that definitively established his symphonic reputation. Wagner himself considered the five songs he composed to texts by his muse Mathilde Wesendonck as his best work so far. An emotional opener to the evening.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme, WWV91, ‘Wesendonck-Lieder’ with Christiane Karg mezzosoprano

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896): Symphony no.3 in D minor, ‘Wagner-Symphony‘ (version 1873)

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Wagner: Faust Overtüre
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder with Christiane Karg mezzosoprano
Bruckner: 3rd symphony, 1st version 1873

Bruckner’s symphonies in the original sound adoption

In the autumn of 1872, Anton Bruckner began work on his Symphony No. 3 in D minor. Following its completion the following year, he offered to dedicate it, plus the Symphony No. 2 in C minor, to his idol, Richard Wagner, during a visit to Bayreuth. Wagner chose the ‘Third’ which was then also “dedicated to him with the deepest of reverence” . However, the “1873 version” is, at most, a “Wagner symphony “. It still contains all the allusions to, reminiscences of and quotations from the works of its dedicatee, most of which were later erased, who was thus able to recognise himself in the symphonic reflection of his work that Bruckner supposedly reproached him with, but failed to recognise that what was taking place here was a deliberate appropriation of specific elements of his musical language by his admirer. Bruckner’s musical homage to the “beloved immortal master” is combined with two of Wagner’s compositions: the Faust Overture in D minor, from which Bruckner took a motif that he used in the final movement of his String Quintet in F major, composed in 1878/79, and the settings of five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck that became known as the “Wesendonck Lieder” , two of which Wagner explicitly described, Im Treibhaus and Träume, as a “study for ‘Tristan und Isolde'” , an opera for whose premiere Bruckner travelled to Munich in 1865. An illustrious group of debutants, including the renowned soprano Christiane Karg, the internationally acclaimed original sound orchestra, Anima Eterna Brugge, and the star conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado, listen to the interplay of appropriation and dedication, making it possible to hear what connected admirers and admirers, but also what separated them.

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Anima Eterna, lead by Pablo Heras-Casado will participate at the International Music Festival Besançon.

Mahler: Rückert Lieder with Sarah Conolly, mezzosoprano
Bruckner: 3rd symphony 1st version 1873

Tickets and info: https://kursaal.besancon.fr/programmation/festival-international-de-musique-de-besancon-3e-de-bruckner/

26ème FESTIVAL de Musique de Chambre
PAYS DE GEX

Le Quintette «Cinqueterre» performs
Luigi Boccherini: Stirng Quintet in F
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C

Location: Esplanade du Lac – 181, Avenue de la Plage, Divonne-les-Bains

Martin Reimann, Charlotte Grattard – Violins
Örzse Adam – Viola
Gesine Queyras, Hager Hanana – Violoncellos