Index – Culture – Live Brahms concert at the Index on Sunday night
Index and Concerto Budapest bring home classical music again on Sunday afternoon and evening. The Index is part of the two-day mini-festival of Concerto Budapest Brahms,
joins the music offerings of the second day of the concert series entitled. The artistic director of the world-famous band, András Keller, offers the following words to Brahms’s music:
To deepen, to observe up close, to slow down, to dissolve – these are experiences that require time and conscious attention and to experience one of the most special possibilities. Brahms’s music speaks to both intellect and emotion at the same time, both tradition-respecting and progressive, with both ingenious structures and heart-soaring melodies in his pieces.
According to Imre Stein Imin Szabó, the live director of the live broadcast, Johannes Brahms’ music is “picture music”.
As a music listener, we can follow the defining moments of Brahms’ composer’s thinking or the various traces of the musical past, but we can simply indulge in an immersive sound experience, only traditional world-class soloists, chamber musicians and , guaranteed by cinematographic broadcasting.
The live concert, which begins on November 28, 2021
- first 5:00 p.m. on the YouTube channel of Index.hu,
- the evening 20.05 and the closing concert, which begins, can be seen and heard on the cover of the Index.
The concert of Concerto Budapest on the Index
Artistic Director: András Keller. Lead director of the live broadcast: Szabó Stein Imre. Picture director: Katalin Gémes. Lead operator: Csaba Farkas
Concerto Budapest is also waiting for prestigious soloists and chamber musicians to interpret Brahms’ music. Elisabeth Leonskaja, Kristóf Baráti, Miklós Perényi and the Keller Quartet will perform.
The offer of his live Brahms concert on Sunday at the Budapest Concerto Index:
On the Index YouTube channel from 5 p.m.
- Brahms: Sextet in B major, op. 18
- Brahms: piano quintet in F minor, op. 34
Brahms composed the sextets in B major at a young age of twenty-seven. Performed by the Keller Quartet, Janka Szomor-Mekis (viola), Miklós Perényi (cello). The soloist of the piano quintet in F minor is pianist Elisabeth Leonskaya.
From the Index front page at 8 p.m.
- Brahms: Violin Competition in D major, op. 77
- The Index of werkfilmje: this is how the Budapest Concerto was made for the Brahms concert
- Brahms-Schönberg: piano quartet in G minor, op. 25
At the closing concert, the author’s only violin concerto, D major, will be performed on the Stradivari violin by violinist Kristóf Baráti. The orchestral orchestration of the Piano Quartet in G minor is due to Arnold Schönberg, in his fourth movement, Rondo alla zingareses this is the effect of the play of Hungarian gypsy musicians. This item is all the central elements in the Concerto Budapest’s Carpathian Rhapsody film, directed by MEZZO TV in December, directed by Imre Szabó Stein. Excerpts from this can already be viewed here, and the full film will be available to readers of the Index in December.
The relationship between Johannes Brahms and the Hungarians and the use of Hungarian elements in his works began when the composer met Ede Reményi (1828–1898) with a composer and violinist. The German composer Hungarian dances He learned about many of the themes and melodies of his series through Hope and incorporated them into his works, but considered him a close friend of Brahms. Joachim József (1831–1907), who also inspired many of his works.
(Cover image: Concerto Budapest, Photo: Valuska Gábor)