BBC Proms 2018: Hungarian Night — Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra

About this event

"Hungarian folk culture is one of the greatest treasures of Europe," asserts Iván Fischer, who conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a sequence of reimagined and transfigured dances and rhapsodies from the region. Both Liszt and Brahms developed a deep love for the music of the Gypsy bands that originated from the easternmost regions of the Habsburg Empire. In creating concert hall versions of these Magyar melodies, the two composers combined the instinctive improvisatory freedom of the folk tunes with the discipline of their own art-music training. Spanish violinist-composer Sarasate also showcased virtuoso fireworks in his adoption and arrangement of Hungarian hit melodies. The second half of this concert reveals another aspect of Brahms. His First Symphony was often derided as 'Beethoven's 10th', but in it, Brahms established a new template for the late 19th-century symphony, carrying forward the Beethovenian legacy — a work on the grandest scale in which darkness and drama ultimately yield to a triumphant conclusion.

Repertoire

1. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody for Orchestra No. 1 in F minor S 359/1

2. Johannes Brahms: Ungarische Tänze (Hungarian Dances) WoO 1 (Arr. for Orchestra), No. 1 in G minor

3. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody for Orchestra No. 3 in D major S 359/3

4. Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) op. 20 (Version for Violin and Orchestra)

5. Johannes Brahms: Ungarische Tänze (Hungarian Dances) WoO 1 (Arr. for Orchestra), No. 11 in D minor

6. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68

Duration: approx. 98 minutes.

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