The concert is cancelled for technical reasons! 

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Sunshine, Heavenly Light

This second concert of Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra’s series entitled “Choir+” is a collaborative work with Purcell Choir: it presents a special programme that deserves the audience’s intense interest. First, a 21st century Hungarian piece will be performed: this work – thanks to its diverse cantata-like short movements – provides a backdrop of timelessness and eternity to St. Francis of Assisi’s “The Canticle of the Sun”. The second half of the concert begins with a rediscovered musical rarity, and continues with the transformation of sadness over final farewell pictured in Fauré’s famous “Requiem” to the uplifting feeling of longing for Heaven.

Programme:

Levente GYÖNGYÖSI: Cantici Fratris Sole (The Canticle of the Sun) – Oratorio in the wake of St. Francis of Assisi

Interval

G.J. WERNER: Vesperae de Confessore

FAURÉ: Requiem, Op. 48 (original chamber music version)

Performed by

Ágnes KOVÁCS – soprano

Eszter Balogh – alto

Zoltán MEGYESI – tenor

Julian ORLISHAUSEN – baritone

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

Art director: István VÁRDAI 

Concert master: Péter TFIRST

Purcell Choir

Chorus master and conductor: György VASHEGYI

Partners: Haydneum – Hungarian Early Music Centre. The operation of Haydneum is supported by the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office and Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Plc.

Supporters of Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra: Ministry of Culture and Innovation, ÁNY Security Printing Company, Budapest’s 13th District Mayor’s Office

For further information, please visit the following website: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Foundation