Freshness, vitality, poetry

In Kodály Centre Pécs, the Budapest Festival Orchestra plays a concert on 3 May.
This concert, in many respects, is combined with the spirited upholding, reformative intention and poetic character of Rostand’s protagonist. And not just because the first piece performed in the concert is going to be the Ouverture of Cyrano de Bergerac of the popular 20^th century composer Johan Wagenaar, but also because it will be followed by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in B flat major, which is the first work of the composer in this artistic form, and therefore it had meant also the beginning of something fresh for him.

Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, in addition to an eventuality of interpreting it as a rebirth of the composer after a period of political disgrace, Shostakovich, in this work, adopted also a tone that had been unknown in his style before. What is more, all this is conducted by Dubóczky Gergely, who is attracted by the innovative solutions both as a performing artist and as a conductor, always seeking after fresh and interesting articulation.
Just as the guest artist of the evening: the young French piano player David Fray, who defined his identity as a living melting pot of nations because of his Czech, Polish, Spanish and Finnish roots beside his French origin. As the diverse colours amalgamate in him, so the concert is going to bring us the glaring vitality of the coming summer.