Wolfgang - Child Amadé - God Mozart – Man Wolfgang – Child Program Apollo et Hyacintus KV38 - Overture Minuets KV1, 2 Six variations on Salieri’s theme, KV180 Piano concerto, No.1, KV37 Gallimathias musicum KV32 – Closing fugue -- Break -- Serenade in D major KV100 Ein musikalischer Spass KV522 - II, IV. tétel Six German Dances, KV571 Contribution: Ádám Balogh - piano Conductor: Máté Hámori Host: Gábor Eckhardt To play the works of Mozart is a daring venture on one hand and an obvious necessity on the other: focusing our admiration again and again on this one-time phenomenon, on the mighty oeuvre, despite its unfinished state.
It is hard to demonstrate a manifold, unearthly and yet through and through worldly phenomenon on one concert; so on three different evenings from three different points of view the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra tries to paint subjective portraits of the “musician of angels”. The first concert, Wolfgang - Child, focuses not only on the earliest pieces, like Piano Concerto No.1 in D major (KV37), or the first opera overture (Apollo et Hyacintus, KV38) but flashes the often envied eternal infancy and humour of the adult Mozart as well (Ein musikalischer Spass KV522, Six German Dances KV571).
Mozart has got only 36 years to accept the way appointed to him, and though Requiem may suggest else at some points, his relation to Providence seems trouble-free from his childhood on. This is convincingly testified not only by his letters but mostly by the deep richness of emotion and colours of his religious works, starting with his early piece Grabmusik (KV50). Pieces from different periods of his life-work will be performed on the second concert of the series; among them the monumental Davide Peninte, besides the above-mentioned and rarely played mourning cantata.
Mozart had a passionate connection to opera and to human voice. In his stage-compositions he literally told everything about human spirit. The closing event of Óbuda Danubia Orchestra puts Man to the centre, understanding and loving him with all his pains, passions, loves and disillusions: Man, the living, fallible likeness of God, who takes form out of Mozart’s works. The rarely audible concert arias written for bass and excerpts from Idomeneo (KV366) shine in the darker colours of the Mozartean universe.
On each concert of the series comments of Gábor Eckhardt help to get closer to the background of the Mozart-phenomenon. The orchestra is conducted by its artistic leader, Máté Hámori. Ticket price: 2000 HUF Season ticket: 5000 HUF Tickets available in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and at the JEGY.HU website.