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1st event - Beethoven concert series in Pesti Vigadó
Beethoven: Eisenstadt Mass
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Andrea Csereklyei – soprano
Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz – alto
János Szerekován – tenor
Domonkos Blazsó - bass
Purcell Choir (chorus master: György Vashegyi)
Conductor: Gábor Hollerung
“Beethoven’s music opens the barriers to the swirl of shivering, fear, horror and pain, and concurrently awakens endless longing, which is the essence of Romanticism. Beethoven is purely Romantic and, for that reason, he is a truly musical composer. This may explain why Beethoven was less successful in composing vocal music, which denies musical space from undefined longing and depicts affections described only through words. It is likewise Beethoven’s Romantic character that elucidates why his instrumental music rarely addresses the crowds.” This is how E. T. A. Hoffmann portrays Beethoven’s art in his famous article on Beethoven.
This concert is the first event in Alteo’s new Beethoven Series, which aims to present a colourful cross section of Beethoven’s lifework.
The first musical piece of the Series is Eisenstadt Mass, which Beethoven describes the following way in a letter to his publisher: “I do not like disclosing anything about my Mass, just as I dislike talking about myself. Yet, I believe I have treated the text in the Mass like very few people did before me”. And this is really so: Beethoven incorporated the traditional five mass parts (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) in five musical movements (i.e. he refused to separate the text into small chunks, as it used to be customary), which may yield a full symphony based on the order these movements’ tonality. Beethoven’s Eisenstadt Mass was ordered by Hungarian Prince Nicolaus Esterházy, who also ordered Haydn’s Eisenstadt Masses.
The second part of the concert features one of the best-known works by Beethoven: Symphony No. 5. Beethoven described the opening motif of this Symphony as follows: “This is the way Fate knocks on the door.” Symphony No. 5 presents man’s desperate struggle and the final victory of man’s will.
Organizer: Dohnanyi Orchestra Budafok