26th September 2021, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest
A Day with Gábor Hollerung and the BDO
A Day with Gábor Hollerung and the BDO
Four concerts – one public rehearsal – informal discussion
It is with great joy and excitement that Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra is preparing for the 2021-22 season, hoping to once again enjoy personal encounters, audience experiences and real concerts. The long online concert life, a time period of many changes and unpredictability will hopefully soon come to an end. At the beginning of the 2021-22 season, following the tradition started last year, the orchestra would like to meet and enjoy music and intimacy with its audience again in a BDO DAY, offering an unprecedented connection between stage and audience. During BDO Day, all those interested can gain an insight into the orchestral workshop through small and large-scale concerts and discussions with the artists.
11:00 Comprehensible Music (1st concert in the series) Handel: Messiah
In this concert, you will hear the second part, the Passion from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, which is his most popular work until our day and one of the most frequently performed oratorios in the world. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and its ‘triumphal march’ continued with concerts in London the following year. For Handel, it was extremely important that all the texts were performed at the concerts he conducted, as he was perhaps the only composer in the history of music to work exclusively from verbatim quotations from the Bible (the libretto was compiled by his friend and collaborator Charles Jennens). This morning, the audience will hear it interpreted by the Budapest Academic Choral Society, a regular partner of Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra.
15:00 BDzoO-Faktor – Animal Talent Show
family concert with stories and music quotes
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals
A fun and entertaining performance of The Carnival of the Animals, complete with appropriate music and a story written for the occasion. Musical excerpts from the following works, among others, will be performed: Rimsky Korsakov: The Bumble Bee, John Williams: Jurassic Park, Dan Brown: Wild Symphony.
17:00 Workshop Discussion
Gábor Hollerung, BDO’s Executive Music Director and Levente Gyöngyösi, BDO’s Resident Composer will have an informal discussion with each other and the audience about important and – to attempt an English version of Gábor Hollerung’s classic phrase – “import-less” issues.
18:30 Percussions Show
BDO’s percussionists can “compete” with famous Hungarian percussion ensembles. In this colourfully complex, exciting and invigorating half-hour concert, you will hear Renaissance music on two marimbas, Bach, Debussy and Joplin by percussions, many exciting rearranged masterpieces, and a real curiosity: four percussionists will play simultaneously on a single marimba! At the end of the concert, the more adventurous can even try their hand on the different drums.
20:00 Main Evening Concert
The end of the day will see us return to classical music in the truest sense of the word. The two pieces of music, both of a very pure quality, were written forty years apart and will lead the listener in an uplifting relaxation in complete harmony and lightness. In both works, common Baroque roots can be detected – Bach’s and Handel’s thinking in particular. The evening concert that will close BDO Day, could be seen as a continuation of our concert on 24th September, featuring works by prodigies, just as in our Budafok concert series.
Programme:
Mozart: “Linz” Symphony, KV 425
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
