LOVE TILL THE END - Wagner / Strauss / Prokofjev / Saint-Saëns - Eszter Sümegi, Róbert Farkas L/1

Apollo and Dionysus, idyll and rampant celebration: such pairs of opposites could be used to describe Beethoven's two symphonies, the Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 7. The first is one of the most beautiful examples of music depicting nature, in which we hear birdsong, the murmur of a stream, a shepherd's horn. The second, which – after Richard Wagner’s often quoted remark – has been called 'the Apotheosis of the Dance itself', was a resounding success in its day in the imperial city. It contains the popular Allegretto, which was applauded by the audience at its premiere and on occasion has been performed as a stand-alone piece. The fourth evening in Gábor Takács-Nagy's Beethoven series features works by the composer from his "Promethean" period.

Deniz Uzun is a singer of Turkish origin, who was raised in Germany and won a special prize at the Éva Marton International Singing Competition in Budapest in 2021. She studied in Mannheim and Heidelberg, then in Bloomington, USA, and is now a frequent guest singer in the world's major opera houses and concert halls, with an impressive repertoire. In this concert, Uzun will sing a song cycle composed by the young for the extraordinary poems of a contemporary poet, Tristan Klingsor. The concert will be conducted by the orchestra's chief conductor, Róbert Farkas, who has put together a program from pieces with French relevance. Haydn composed his six "Paris Symphonies" in 1784, receiving a "commission" from Paris. The second movement of Symphony No. 85 in B flat major is a variation of a well-known French folk song. Ravel composed his songs to French, and the two popular orchestral pieces in the second half of the program are perhaps the best-known and most popular works of French music.

Beethoven életrajzírói a mester egyik legjellemzőbb tulajdonságaként emlegetik szabadságszeretetét. Ez az alapja az 1809-ben komponált Egmont nyitánynak. Szellemi rokona az Egmont zenének a III. szimfónia is, amely az Eroica (Hősi) melléknevet kapta. A II. szimfóniát 1803-ban mutatták be, derűs, optimizmust sugárzó mű, pedig keletkezése idején Beethoven már tudott gyógyíthatatlan fülbajáról.