Organ transcriptions in Budapest

By Catherine Ennis, 30 May 2016

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“all shades of colour in between can be reached instantly by the touch of a piston”

Reviewed at Müpa: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest on 22 May 2016

Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19: Suite

Kodály, Dances of Marozzsék

Szathmáry, Mors et vita (Hungarian première)

Liszt, Les Préludes, symphonic poem no. 3, S 97

Balázs Szabó, Organ

Zsigmond Szathmáry, Organ

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic’s measured Mahler 6

SangKwon Lee, 19th March

That last movement proves the evening’s true point of reckoning in the Seoul Philharmonic's performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Lotte Concert Hall.

****1

Shared language and living history: Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Phil

Chanda VanderHart, 19th March

Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman and the Vienna Philharmonic meet in repertoire they know intimately, illuminating it through mutual understanding.

*****

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Catherine Ennis

Catherine Ennis was Director of Music at the City of London church of St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall. Her career as recitalist and recording artist took her to many international venues, and she taught or examined at three major London Music conservatoires. Her energy and enthusiasm helped create four major new London organs. In 1994 she founded the London Organ Concerts Guide, now an indispensible companion to London's organ music scene. She was Past President of the Royal College of Organists, and Past President of the Incorporated Association of Organists.

Liszt, Kodály and Bartók organ transcriptions in Budapest