Marvellous Baroque Instruments A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

For many decades Róbert Mandel has been an active figure in Hungarian music circles as a performer, instrumentalist, researcher of the history of instruments and even rediscoverer of long-forgotten instruments. It comes as no surprise, therefore, to find that his numerous series on the history of instruments have attracted considerable interest over the years. There is also much interest in this evening’s performance, which gives the audience the opportunity to meet instruments very rarely heard live; for instance, the lute-harpsichord (lautenwerck), which combines two different instruments and was much admired by Bach, or its big brother, the ‘near extinct’ theorbo-harpsichord, which was only rediscovered in the 20th century. Both instruments are played here by Tamás Vasvári, who studied in one of the bastions of early music schools, the Schola Cantorum in Basel. On top of that, the hurdy-gurdy, an instrument that we know primarily from folk music but which became a highly fashionable French instrument in the period of Louis XV, is played on a stage that also includes among its luminaries one of the pioneers of Hungarian early music performance, Pál Németh.