Program

Tokyo-Budapest Ensemble

19:30
Concert Hall
Featuring:
  • Berkes Kálmán – clarinet
  • Berkes Ryoko – violin
  • Reményi Gyöngyi – violin
  • Tácsik Zoltán – viola
  • Farkas Kálmán – cello
  • Farkas Kálmán – cello
  • Villányi Péter – cello

The Tokyo-Budapest Ensemble has been performing in Hungary each summer since 2002. This concert will be their fifth in the BMC Concert hall. The Ensemble's artistic director is Kálmán Berkes, music professor at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan and the artistic director of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary. Members of the Ensemble - young musicians from Japan and Hungary - are selected each year from Berkes's students and the musicians of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra.

The concert features two beloved chamber works by Wolgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert. Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581. is one of the most admired from the composer's works, while Schubert's String Quintet in C Major, D. 956. - a favourite of Béla Bartókis widely believed to be among the handful of greatest chamber works ever composed - its beauty made even more apparent by the fact that it was Schubert's very last chamber piece, completed weeks before his tragically premature death.

2017 July 04 Tuesday