Beethoven Board Game with Barnabás Kelemen
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This programme is held in Hungarian.
The history of music still carries the Beethoven experience. No other composer has brought about such a radical transformation, single-handedly, across almost every area of classical music. A truly new era began with him. We still need his music and his ideas today. We listen to what he says and marvel at how he says it. The House of Hungarian Music pays tribute to his genius with a special concert. At this chamber concert, characteristic excerpts from Beethoven’s works, from duos to quartets, will be performed under the artistic direction of Barnabás Kelemen. The sequence of movements forms a story of its own, brought together into a unified whole by a conversation between Barnabás Kelemen and András Batta.
The concert opens with the first movement of the first of Beethoven’s three violin-cello-piano trios, published as his Opus 1 and marking the emblematic beginning of his “official” body of work. Alongside Barnabás Kelemen, it will be performed by cellist Dóra Kokas and pianist Imre Dani. After this evocation of Beethoven, the promising young piano virtuoso, we will hear the master’s most challenging work, written for string quartet and focused solely on his inner world: the Grosse Fuge (Op. 133). This time, joining Barnabás Kelemen and Dóra Kokas will be Gáspár Kelemen on violin and Katalin Kokas on viola. As a lyrical intermezzo in the concert, the euphorically songful final movement of the Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 90, will be performed. It also takes us into the world of Beethoven’s slow movements, where we will listen, deeply moved, to the “thanksgiving hymn of a convalescent” from the A minor Quartet, Op. 132. Finally, the monumental opening movement of the famous Kreutzer Sonata, performed by Barnabás Kelemen and Imre Dani, will complete this Beethoven monument in concert form.
Barnabás Kelemen is one of the leading figures in Hungarian and international music today. His almost unimaginably vast repertoire encompasses not only virtually the entire body of music written for violin, but also countless chamber works and even orchestral pieces, as in recent years the artist has increasingly taken up the conductor’s baton. His performances are always exciting, always a special occasion. He is a frequent guest at the House of Music, where he usually performs with family members who are also musicians, and with friends. This evening, too, we will experience the complementary worlds of the concert platform and the salon, in an atmosphere that is at once distinguished and intimate.
Dear Visitor, We kindly inform you that during the event, photographs, audio recordings, and/or video recordings may be taken. By attending the event, you consent to the recording of such materials through your implied conduct.
