Understanding, wonderment, profundity, discoveries and rediscoveries: this is what the Day of Listening promises the public and, indeed, the performers in what is the fourth occasion the festival has been arranged, this year on Sunday 10 November 2019. It is a tradition for music programmes on the Day of Listening to be staged in several venues at the same time, during which visitors meet András Keller, Zoltán Rácz and artists of Concerto Budapest as well as superlative soloists and chamber musicians. The one-day music event by Concerto Budapest and Budapest Music Center is designed to focus attention primarily on contemporary music and the creative knock-on influences arising between masterpieces of different ages. More than 40 works, including six world premières and five premières in Hungary, are squeezed into 13 concerts on just a single day. The programme runs from works by Vivaldi through Beethoven via legendary contemporary artists all the way to the youngest composer generation.

CONCERT HALL

11:00–12:00
Beethoven: The Consecration of the House, overture, Op. 124
István Láng: String Quartet No. 4 – arrangement for string orchestra – Première
László Sáry: Tranquillity
Andriessen: The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven
Featuring: Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller, Zoltán Rácz

13:15–14:15
Stepan Rostomyan: Symphony No. 3
György Ligeti: Bagatelles
Featuring: Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Béla Horváth – oboe, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Zsófia Stefán – bassoon, János Benyus – horn
Erwin Schulhoff: Piano Concerto, Op. 43
Featuring: József Balog – piano, Concerto Budapest
Conductor: Zoltán Rácz

15:30–16:30
Péter Tornyai: For the Public
Claude Vivier: Lonely Child
Featuring: Eszter Zemlényi – soprano
Steve Reich: Pulse – Hungarian Première
Zoltán Jeney: Agony – Songs for György Petri's Poems
Featuring: Brassói-Jőrös Andrea – vocal
Conductor: Zoltán Rácz

18:00–19:00
Robert Bachmann: Rotation 90° N – Hungarian Première
Richard Strauss: Divertimento after Couperin, Op. 86
Featuring: Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller
Péter Tornyai – Balázs Horváth – Máté Balogh – Bánk Sáry – Marcell Dargay – Kornél Fekete-Kovács - Mátyás Wettl - Rezső Ott – Ákos Zarándy: 6:3 – Première
Featuring: Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller, Zoltán Rácz

20:00–21:30
Giya Kancheli: Nach dem Weinem
Featuring: László Fenyő – cello
László Vidovszky: Cinema – Premiere
Gábor Csalog: Five Pieces of Funeral Music – Première
Featuring: Krisztián Andor – piano, Zsanett Szatzker – accordion, Concerto Budapest
Conductor: András Keller
Schubert: String Quartet in d Minor “The Death and the Maiden” D. 810 – II. Movement
Featuring: Keller Quartet
Schubert: Quintet in C Major D956 – II. Movement
Featuring: Miklós Perényi – violoncello, Keller Quartet
György Kurtág: Trios, Aus der Ferne III. and V, Secreta, Mikroludium
Featuring: Miklós Perényi – violoncello, Gábor Csalog – piano, Keller Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet in F Major Op. 135. – IV. Movement
Featuring: Keller Quartet

OPUS JAZZ CLUB

12:15–13:00
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D major, RV 212
Featuring: András Keller – violin
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in G minor, RV 495
Featuring: Zsófia Stefán – bassoon
Händel: “Amabile Belta” Concerto for Flute and English Horn
Featuring: Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Dániel Ella – English horn

14:30–15:30
Gyula Bánkövi: Délaissement
Featuring: Orsolya Kaczander – flute
George Crumb: Black Angels
Featuring: Kruppa Quartet (Bálint Kruppa, Éva Osztrosits – violin, András Kurgyis – viola, Barnabás Baranyai – cello)
Thomas Adès: Blanca Variations
Featuring: Mihály Berecz – piano
Gyula Bánkövi: White Angels
Featuring: Kruppa Quartet

16:45–17:45
Toru Takemitsu: Rain Spell
Featuring: Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Deborah Sipkay – harp, Boglárka Fábry – vibraphone, Emese Mali – piano
Sofia Gubaidulina: Garden of Joy and Sorrow
Featuring: Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Gábor Homoky – violin, Deborah Sipkay – harp
Zoltán Jeney: Flowing-time – Première
Featuring: Classicus Quartet (József Rácz, Réka Baksai – violin, Péter Tornyai – viola, Tamás Zétényi – cello)

19:00–20:00
Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 96
Featuring: Gábor Csalog – piano, András Keller – violin
Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Featuring: Gábor Csalog – piano and Keller Quartet 

21:30–22:30
Hommage à Elvis Presley
Gábor Homoky & Old Sounds (Ernő Bangó, Kálmán Dráfi, Oszkár Németh, István Ruszó, Imre Sárközi)

LIBRARY

14:30–15:15
Iris Szeghy: Aria – Hungarian Première
Featuring: Miranda Liu, Kakutani Satoko – violin, Tünde Varasdy – viola, Tamás Migróczi – cello
Iris Szeghy: Canticum – Hungarian Première
Featuring: Zsanett Szatzker – accordion
Ákos Zarándy: Angry Birds
Featuring: Csaba Klenyán – clarinet, Ákos Pápai – bass clarinet, Ramóna Tóth – bassoon
Graziane Finzi: Thème and Variations
Featuring: László Fenyő – cello
Katalin Pócs: Etudes
Featuring: Csaba Klenyán - clarinet

16:45–17:30
Péter Pál Józsa: The Third Vertebrae – Première
Featuring: György Schweigert, Tibor Tabányi, Gyula Lázár, Dezső Csoport, Zoltán Pető, László Illés – bass
Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
Featuring: Mihály Berecz – piano, Bálint Kruppa – violin, Barnabás Baranyai – cello

19:00–20:00
Ysaÿe: Solo Sonata No. 2
Featuring: Miranda Liu
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte – Hungarian Première
Featuring: Lisa Romain, Réka Baksai – violin, Adrienn Barát – viola, Eszter Karasszon – cello
Levente Gyöngyösi: Sonata 
Featuring: Gábor Devecsai – trumpet, Ákos Takács – cello, Emese Mali – piano
Máté Balogh: Si King Songs 
Featuring: Anna Molnár – vocals, János Nevelő – percussion