BLOW THE HORNS - Rossini / Beethoven / Haydn / Dukas / Mozart - Szabolcs Zempléni F/1.

Following the long tradition of the Festetics concert series, this time the concert will be based around one instrument, the horn. The soloist and artistic director of the evening, Szabolcs Zempléni, was born in 1981 and is the winner of numerous prestigious prizes of international music competitions. The solo hornist of the Hungarian National Philharmonic has performed in all five continents and is a visiting professor in London and Tokyo, along with the Hohner Conservatory and the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre in Germany. His programme presents the true gems of wind chamber music. Rossini's Grand Fanfare is a pre-hunt signal to line-up the participants, played by four hunting horns with orchestral accompaniment. The beautiful chamber music of Beethoven features 2-2 oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns. Paul Dukas (1865-1935), the composer of the symphonic scherzo The Sorcerer's Apprentice, composed a solemn introduction for winds to his ballet La Péri (The Fairy). The programme includes two classical concertos and one of the best-known examples of musical humour in Mozart's little masterpiece A Musical Joke.