We would like to inform our audience that according to the government decision effective from 11 November 2020, no public events can be held, so we are unable to hold concerts at the Liszt Academy with an audience. However, our audience will not be left without a concert experience, as most of our performances will be held and broadcast online in our Digital Concert Hall, and most of the concerts of the orchestras organizing concert series at the Liszt Academy will also be available online.

16 May 2019, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Presented by Liszt Academy
Symphonies – Differently
Stravinsky: Funeral Song, Op. 5
Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante, Op. 125
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
István Várdai (cello)
National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Hannu Lintu
Globally celebrated for his sensitivity to orchestral timbres and tones, not to mention a characteristic dynamism on the podium, Hannu Lintu, music director of the Finnish Radio Orchestra, is regularly hosted in America, Asia and Europe. Naturally enough, in his programmes he devotes particular attention to his homeland. This time he conducts the final fantasia-like symphony – which unusually is just a single movement – by Sibelius, the father of Finnish national music. Stravinsky’s Funeral Song is also unusual: long thought to have been lost, it was rediscovered in 2015; Symphony of Psalms is far better known and a classic of 20th-century music, expertly combining choir and orchestra. Yet more excitement is promised in the form of one of Prokofiev’s final opuses, the extraordinarily complex cello concerto, which moves in symphonic dimensions and was dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich and which here features a solo by István Várdai, the international music celebrity.
Presented by
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Tickets:
HUF 3 000, 4 500, 6 000