Philharmonie Zugló: Budapest Spring Festival

Over het evenement

The Zugló Philharmonia, King Stephen Symphony Orchestra, and the Oratorio Choir perform at this year's Budapest Spring Festival.

“Apart from Kodály and Lajtha, we have no valuable composers,” wrote Béla Bartók when Lajtha was still yet to enter his thirties. In a sense, the young composer was following in the tracks of his two senior colleagues: he too was a composer and performer of broad horizons, a learned student of folk music. His compositions, on the other hand, diverged from the course of Bartók and Kodály, following individual inspirations. Unfortunately, the public and professionals are equally unfamiliar with his work. It is the hope that the 120th anniversary of his birth will offer an opportunity to “discover” László Lajtha. At this concert, the Zugló Philharmonia will perform his Three Hymns for the Holy Virgin, which he dedicated to the famed Parisian teacher of composition, Nadia Boulanger. This piece is a fine example of Lajtha’s musical idiom, which connects styles and ages; the composition melds Hungarian folk music, medieval Gregorian chants and turn‐of‐the‐century French music into a harmonious, indivisible whole.

The second part of the programme includes a relatively early liturgical piece by Haydn (1766), his most monumental mass composition.

Conductor: Kálmán Záborszky
Featuring: Veronika Geszthy, Katalin Gémesi, Zoltán Megyesi, Krisztián Cser – voice