Kristof Barati, Martin Rajna (03.02.2021-Live-Budapest)

Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44 Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Grieg: Peer Gynt – excerpts (Morning Mood; Anitra’s Dance; Arabian Dance; The Death of Åse; In the Hall of the Mountain King; Solveg’s Song) Kristóf Baráti – violin Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Matin Rajna The title of this concert – ‘White Nights’ – refers to the lands of the north, where the sun never sets during part of the year, and for 24 hours of each day, there is no darkness. What does the ‘north’ mean in our collective consciousness? If we associate the south with a sort of temperamentality, the east with the exoticism of Asian countries, and the west with the development of technology and civilisation, then the north, we would have to say, is a place full of relentless cold and harshness. But when it comes to northern music, which is often also very passionate and energetic, isn’t the truth really the exact opposite of all this? And speaking of cardinal directions, Kristóf Baráti, the soloist for the concert, might also make the audience of this northern concert think of the exciting lands of the south, as he lived in Venezuela between the ages of two and 12, the period when his musical consciousness was developing. Today the Kossuth Prize-winning violinist is celebrated all over the world, and his repertoire includes every important work written for the instrument. In his short career so far, the 26-year-old conductor Martin Rajna, a winner of the Junior Prima Award, has led the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, the Győr Philharmonic and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, and this will not be his first time taking the podium as a guest with the Hungarian National Philharmonic. The concert will open with Jean Sibelius’s extraordinarily popular programme music Valse triste: it depict the tragic vision of a son who has fallen asleep while sitting vigil at his mother’s deathbed. It was Henrik Ibsen himself who commissioned his fellow Norwegian Edvard Grieg to write the incidental music for his drama Peer Gynt in 1875, a task which the composer took on reluctantly. Nevertheless, the piece eventually became his most popular work. Sibelius’s 1904 violin concerto is a similarly popular work that has served for decades as one of the cornerstones of the literature written for the instrument. In Grieg’s work, the audience will get to enjoy the singing of soprano Ágnes Szalai.

Shostakovich, Schubert. Sonatas for Cello and Piano - Arto Noras, Tapani Valsta (early1970s)

Present Erkki Valsta

Klaus Mäkelä - Shostakovich. S7 (10-11.05.2019-Live-Stockholm)

10.05.2019 19:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden
SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Vasks: Pater Noster
Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major ”Leningrad”
The Swedish Radio Choir
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor


11.05.2019 15:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden
SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Vasks: Pater Noster
Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major ”Leningrad”
The Swedish Radio Choir
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
FLAC + cue

Klaus Mäkelä - Shostakovich.S6 (06-07.03.2019-Live-Stockholm)

06.03.2019 18:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden

SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Elina Vähälä, violin

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor





07.03.2019 18:00 @ Berwaldhallen – Stockholm, Sweden

SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Elina Vähälä, violin

Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
FLAC + cue

Jaime Martin - Shostakovich.S11 (05.01.2020-Live-London)

Symphonies of requiem and revolution
Radio 3 in Concert

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, whose reputation as the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers reaches far beyond the UK, and conductor Jaime Martin perform a trio of politically charged 20th-century works.

Hans Eisler's visceral choral revolutionary song kicks off the proceedings, followed by Britten's brilliant orchestral Sinfonia da Requiem, an unlikely pre-World War II commission by the Japanese government to mark the Japanese Empire's 2600th anniversary. Shostakovich's quasi-cinematic Symphony No 11, subtitled 'The Year 1905', vividly depicts scenes from the failed first Russian Revolution, long-celebrated as the Soviet people's initial, faltering step towards the establishment of a socialist state. The symphony proved an instant success in the Soviet Union at its 1957 premiere and in a superbly ironic twist it also won the Lenin Prize. Ironic because Shostakovich was covertly portraying another much more recent failed revolution, that of the brutally suppressed 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule.

Recorded at London's Barbican hall, 05.01.2020

Eisler: Auf den Strassen zu Singen
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Interval

Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 'The Year 1905'

You fell as a victim

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jaime Martin (conductor)
FLAC + cue

Daniel Raiskin - Shostakovich.S5 (16.11.2017-Live-Ljubljana) FLAC

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture to 'The Creatures of Prometheus', Op 43

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61
Benjamin Schmid (violin)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Passacaglia
Benjamin Schmid (violin)

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op 47
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin (conductor)

Janos Kovacs (11.11.2015-Live-Budapest) FLAC

Concert of the National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: János Kovács
Km: Ivett Gyöngyösi (piano)

1. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Hebrides Overture,
2. Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto in E minor (Gyöngyösi),
3. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
(Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, November 11, 2015)