19.12.2022 19:00 - ORCHESTRAL DANCES OF THE VISEGRAD COUNTRIES

ORCHESTRAL DANCES OF THE VISEGRAD COUNTRIES

Municipal House – Smetana Hall

19.12.2022 19:00

Music of the Central European Region – V4 Countries

Concert is dedicate and in honor of the hungarian pianist Georges Cziffra - celebrate the 100th birth anniversary. He died in 30 years ago. He founded the Georges Cziffra festival in Hungary. 

JANOSZ BALASZ – piano (HU)

WOJCIECH RODEK  – conductor (PL)

NORTH BOHEMIA PHILHARMONIC TEPLICE (CZE)

The symphonic programme with dance stylisation featuring probably the greatest composers of the V4 countries which have become iconic worldwide: Dvorak, Liszt and Bartok, Chopin and Moyzes.

Frederic Chopin (1810–1849): Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22

Ferenc Liszt (1811–1866): Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead) – Paraphrase on Dies irae for piano and orchestra, S. 126–1 (Feruccio Bussoni issue)

Alexander Moyzes (1906–1984): Pohroni Dances op. 44

Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Transylvania Dances for orchestra (1931)

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Zoltán Kodály (1887–1961): Dances from Galanta (1934)

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904): Slavonic dances for orchestra, II. series, Op. 72 , selection from

No. 1  B major Molto vivace (Odzemek)

No. 2  E minor Allegretto grazioso (Mazurka)

No. 3  F major Allegro (Skočná)

No. 4 D-flat major Allegretto grazioso (Dumka)

No. 5 B-flat minor Poco adagio (Špacírka)

No. 6 B-flat major Moderato, quasi Minuetto (Dumka)

No. 7 C major Allegro vivace (Kolo)

No. 8 A-flat major Grazioso lento, ma non troppo, quasi tempo di Valse (Polonaise)

Dramaturgy by Miroslav Matějka