Sir Georg Solti was an exclusive artist of Unitel for many years, and during this time a large part of his vast repertoire was recorded for television with “his” orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With great awe and respect, Unitel joined forces with the maestro once again in 1995 to record a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in which Solti paid homage to his native Hungary, to his roots and his teachers, the Hungarians Kodály, Bartók and Weiner. Of course, in a concert featuring dazzling music from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Rakoczy March in Berlioz’s arrangement could not be omitted. The second part of the concert is devoted to Beethoven, who was not Hungarian but had been adopted by Hungary’s Austrian neighbors. The concert is Unitel’s last recording with the great artist, who died on 5 September 1997.
Salzburg Festival 2016: Yuja Wang and the Camerata Salzburg
The Camerata Salzburg, a musical mainstay in the city of Mozart’s birth, joins forces with French conductor Lionel Bringuier, one of the most promising young conductors of his generation, and Yuja Wang, who has established herself as an international sensation and a fixture among the world’s leading orchestras since her debut in 2007, for a concert featuring music of the early 20th century at Salzburg’s Haus für Mozart. PROGRAM: Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major; Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”; Zoltan Kodaly: “Dances of Galanta”; Ravel: “Ma Mere l’oye”
RCO: Noseda conducts Liszt, Dvorák and Kodály
Yefim Bronfman is performing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, which makes a colourful Eastern European programme in combination with evocative works by Dvorák and Kodály under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda. Yefim Bronfman is performing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, which makes a colourful Eastern European programme in combination with evocative works by Dvorák and Kodály under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda. PROGRAM Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2; Dvorák: The Noon Witch; Kodály: ‘Peacock’ Variations