The works by Tallis and Mozart featured here technically make no compositional sense: the 40-part composition by Tallis mostly uses only three voices, while the quodlibet which crowns the last movement of the Mozart symphony evokes the climax of a four-part fugue which no one has ever successfully written.

For a long time for succeeding generations, Bach’s Chaconne seemed an unattainable temptation; it was persistently doubted that the work had been written for solo violin (hence the orchestral transcription), as its musical and technical difficulties far outstripped the seemingly diabolical virtuosity of the Romantic period.

The work which closes this concert was written by Mahler as a prelude for his boundless reinterpretation of the Faustian idea, in which the cosmic dimensions of life and death, faith and doubt, damnation and apotheosis are laid before us.

Presented by: Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, Palace of Arts

16 March 2014, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall

Tallis: Spem in alium
Mozart: Symphony in C major (“Jupiter”), K. 551
J. S. Bach: Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004 (transcribed for orchestra)
Mahler: Veni creator spiritus

Featuring: Cantemus Mixed Choir of Nyíregyháza (chorusmaster: Soma Szabó), Budapest Academic Choral Society (chorusmaster: Csaba Tőri), National Choir (chorusmaster: Mátyás Antal)
Conductor: Gábor Hollerung

Prices: 2500, 3500, 4500, 5500, 8000 Ft

Source: Palace of Arts
Address: 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.