The National Philharmonic Orchestra opened the season with a Bart\u00f3k concert. <\/STRONG><\/P> The conductor Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis also featured as a composer. Bart\u00f3k transcribed five (nos. 1, 2, 11, 14, 12) of his Twenty Hungarian Folksongs (1929) for orchestra, but Kocsis now presented the whole work in an orchestral version. It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that a new Bart\u00f3k work has been born. Kocsis again proved he is a genius, who really is the reincarnation of the composer. He serves his master with unbelievable abilities of empathy, and experiences Bart\u00f3k's way of thinking like a mother tongue. He raises these simple folksongs with miraculously handled percussion instruments and fantastic sensitivity for drama, to the dominion of tragedy and sometimes, broad comedy. It is terrible that because of legal problems, this important work cannot yet be recorded on CD. The orchestra played in grand style, although the soloists were less pleasing, J\u00falia Hajn\u00f3czy sang with a nice but weak voice, D\u00e9nes Guly\u00e1s who replaced the indisposed Attila Fekete, has a great sense of style but lacked communicative power. Mih\u00e1ly K\u00e1lm\u00e1ndi was adequate but sometimes overdid his role, while M\u00e1rta Lukin this evening, was simply wanting. Next, the exceptionally gifted violinist Barnab\u00e1s Kelemen played the First and Second Rhapsodies. He performed both frenetically, the first with great energy, the second showing that this work is far more than a simple folk setting. This was surpassed by the closing movement of the Solo Sonata which he gave as an encore. – csonta – The National Philharmonic Orchestra opened the season with a Bart\u00f3k concert. The conductor Zolt\u00e1n Kocsis also featured as a composer. Bart\u00f3k transcribed five (nos. 1, 2, 11, 14, 12) of his Twenty Hungarian Folksongs (1929) for orchestra, but Kocsis now presented the whole work in an orchestral version. It is perhaps not an exaggeration to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirek"],"better_featured_image":null,"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["hu","en"],"languages":{"hu":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":{"lead_szoveg":"The National Philharmonic Orchestra opened the season with a Bart\u00f3k concert."},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 22:41:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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After the break, Kocsis against proved beyond doubt with the Concerto that he has done remarkable work with this orchestra. It was played far swifter than usual (and they played the individual movements practically attaca!) and the perfect elaboration of the wood and brass sections was conspicuous (I have never heard the Game in Pairs movement performed this wittily), as was the flexible beauty of the sonority. The intense rhythm turned each moment into an event. An unforgettable evening. (Music Academy, September 25)<\/P>
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