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Concert canceled Pillar of the Hungarian musical life, the Philharmonic National Orchestra has belonged, since its creation in 1923, to the greatest Europeans orchestras having an international dimension. The most prestigious conductors followed each other at its head, like Claudio Abado or Sir John Barbirolli, and it received great soloists, Ruggiero Ricci or Yehudi Menuhin, among others. Accumulating prizes and awards since it’s been under the direction of Zoltan Kocsis, the Orchestra multiplies the recordings, among which Bartok’s work, which is particularly mastered. The Hungarian Zoltan Kocsis, pianist but also conductor, has affirmed himself very early as a personality out of the ordinary, motivated by an ideal only at the service of his art. Fundamentally attached to his native land, he’s renowned for performing works of Hungarian composers (Liszt and Bartok) and keeps the ability of being delighted as well as a communicative fever which can be found in the programme: Felix Mendelssohn’s Concerto for violin op 77 in D major, Béla Bartok’s Concerto for orchestra and, more specifically, Franz Liszt’s Valley of Oberman. This last major work (inspired by Oberman, Senancour’s epistolary novel and Byron’s ode Oberman), with its slow strings and its dark connotations, immerses us in an atmosphere of spleen.

“Renowned as one of the most prestigious pianists of his time as well as an exceptional conductor, Zoltan Kocsis is inhabited by music and is able to transcend what is already a composer’s masterpiece.” Marie-José Ballista - Le Berry Républicain