Concerto Budapest is hosting the 5th annual Day of Listening Festival, which showcases contemporary music and creative compositions inspired by music across different ages. A series of six concerts will be performed over the course of one day across a variety of different venues this year. The last concert, which will be held at 2 PM ET, is programmed with a special dedication: To the victims of war and terrorism.

Hosted by music director and chief conductor of Concerto Budapest András Keller, the concert series will feature a roster of artists from Concerto Budapest, as well as other esteemed soloists and chamber musicians.

PROGRAM

Concert 1 (6 AM ET):

  • György Ligeti: Three Pieces for Two Pianos
    • Görög Sisters
  • Dobrinka Tabakova: Concerto for Viola and Strings
    • Maxim Rysanov - viola, Concerto Budapest
  • Máté Balogh: Tiefhornfantasie aus den Ostalpen (world premiere)
    • Hunor Varga – horn, Concerto Budapest
    • Conductor: Gergely Dubóczky

Concert 2 (8 AM ET): 

  • Hindemith: Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon and Strings
    • Gábor Devecsai – trumpet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon with Concerto Budapest
    • Conductor: László Tihanyi
  • Roland Szentpáli: Abraham and Isaac (world premiere)
    • Tibor Takács – tuba, Kános Benyus – horn
    • Conductor: László Tihanyi
  • Alessio Elia: Celestial Keys, Second Call (world premiere)
    • Concerto Budapest
    • Conductor: László Tihanyi
  • Perényi Miklós: Per sette archi (world premiere)
    • Concerto Budapest
    • Conductor: Gergely Dubóczky
  • Zoltán Jeney: Sindbad - suit
    • László Kéringer – tenor, András Keller – violin, Orsolya Kaczander - flute
      Concerto Budapest
    • Conductor: András Keller

Concert 3 (9:30 AM ET)

Opus Jazz Club

  • Péter Eötvös: Para Paloma
    • Miranda Liu - violin
  • Péter Eötvös: Adventures of the Dominant Seventh Chord
    • Janka Szomor Mekis - viola
  • Péter Eötvös: A Call
    • Miranda Liu - violin
  • Péter Eötvös: PSY
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Janka Szomor Mekis – viola, Lenka Petrovic – harp
  • Giovanni da Firenze: Quand’ Amor (revised by Ákos Zarándy)
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán - clarinet
  • Guillaume Dufay: Belle veullies moy retenir (revised by Ákos Zarándy)
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
  • Ákos Zarándy: A csend határfényei (Border lights of silence – world premiere)
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet

Concert 4 (11 AM ET)

  • Gyula Csapó: Concerto per Pianoforte ed un ambiente che cambia (world premiere)
    • Zoltán Fejérvári – piano
    • Concerto Budapest conducted by Gergely Dubóczky

Concert 5 (12:30 PM ET)

Opus Jazz Club

  • Zoltán Jeney: Canone enigmatico
    • Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
  • Gábor Csalog: The Upper Light – 4 songs for soprano and piano
    • Csilla Csővári – soprano, Gábor Csalog – piano
  • Zoltán Jeney: Soliloquium Nr 5 – for Péter Esterházy Péter
    • Csaba Klenyán – clarinet
  • Ádám Kondor: In nomine (world premiere)
    • Orsolya Winkler, Áron Soós – violin, Előd Soós – viola, János Aranyos – cello
  • László Tihanyi: 3 notes
    • Orsolya Winkler – violin, XY – viola, János Aranyos - cello
  • László Tihanyi: 3 bagatelles for wind quintet
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon, Péter Lakatos – horn
  • György Ligeti: Six bagatelles from Musica Ricercata
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Bálint Mohai – bassoon, Péter Lakatos – hor

Concert 6 (2 PM ET)

Budapest Music Center Concert Hall

In memory of the victims of war and terrorism

  • Bernstein about the 9th Symphony of Beethoven
  • Beethoven: F major string quartet No. 16 Op. 135
    III. Lento assai cantante tranquillo

    • András Keller — violin, Zsófia Környei — violin, Szomer-Mekis Janka — viola, Ákos Takács — viola
  • Ravel: Deux Mélodies Hébraiques – Kaddish
    • András Keller — violin, Czalog Gábor — piano
  • Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
    • Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
  • Péter Eötvös: Cadenza (from “Shadows”)
    • Orsolya Kaczander – flute
  • Hindemith: Trauermusik
    • Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
    • Rysanov Maxim — viola
  • R. Strauss: Metamorphosen
    • Concerto Budapest conducted by András Keller
  • Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
    Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus

    • András Keller — violin, Czalog Gábor — piano