Concert of the UMZE ensemble

Concert of the UMZE ensemble

Concert in honour of Péter Eötvös’ and László Vidovszky’s 70th birthday – A program of the Budapest Spring Festival
2014-03-30

The concert of UMZE Chamber Ensemble congratulates two outstanding figures of contemporary Hungarian music, Péter Eötvös and László Vidovszky, both celebrating their 70th birthdays in the beginning of 2014.

The festive concert is greeting Eötvös and Vidovszky not only by interpreting one important work by each of them, but through Hungarian premieres of a Stockhausen and a Messiaen piece it presents also the contemporary European musical context which had a stimulating effect to both Eötvös’ and Vidovszky’s oeuvre.

Program:

Péter Eötvös: Shadows
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Schlagtrio – Hungarian premiere

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László Vidovszky: Reverb
Olivier Messiaen: Un vitrail et des oiseaux (A stained glass window and birds)
– Hungarian premiere

UMZE Chamber Ensemble
featuring: Zoltán Fejérvári, Fülöp Ránki – piano
Aurél Holló, Szabolcs Joó – timpani
Gergely Ittzés – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet,
Pulzus String Quartet
Conductor: Zoltán Rácz

 

Tornyai will play the viola in the piece of Péter Eötvös.

 

More info HERE.