György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages - excerpts
Takemitsu Toru: Hika (Elegy) for Violin and Piano
Takemitsu Toru: From far beyond Chrysanthemums and November fog
Csanád Kedves: New Work - premiere
György Kurtág: Secreta - Funeral music in memoriam László Dobszay
Katarzyna Krzewińska: drowning to the light (2024) – Hungarian premiere
Gergely Vajda: Light-Play: Black-White-Grey (2022)
Performers:
Haruka Nagao (Japan) – violin
Angela Draghicescu (Romania) – piano
V4 String Quartet
Miranda Liu (USA/Hungary) – violin; Daniel Rumler (Slovakia/Czech Republic) – violin;
Tomáš Krejbich (Czech Republic) – viola; Bartosz Koziak (Poland) – cello
The MiraTone Festival and Academy, founded by violinist Miranda Liu, is filling Budapest with music for the eighth time this year. Over the years, the event has become a defining gathering place in the European classical music scene, where internationally renowned artists from around the world inspire one another and the audience.
The concert showcases the many facets of contemporary chamber music: from intimate confessions to sonic experiments, from remembrance to the search for new paths. The MiraTone Festival’s second concert that pays tribute to György Kurtág’s 100th birthday, invites the audience to experience a meeting of musical worlds in which subtle nuances, silence, and inner expression take center stage. The works featured in the evening titled “Shadow Play” come from different countries and generations, yet they share an extraordinary sensitivity and a special attention to sound. One of the festival’s most exciting chamber music evenings offers an encounter between different generations and creative worlds of contemporary music. The program centers on sound as memory, sign, and inner landscape: the pieces in the concert engage the listener with their conciseness, subtle nuances, and extraordinary concentration of musical gestures.
The program opens with a selection from Kurtág’s cycle “Signs, Games, and Messages”, followed by two compositions by Toru Takemitsu, which, with their ethereal, poetic soundscapes, rank among the Japanese master’s most personal works. The highlight of the concert is the world premiere of a new work by Csanád Kedves, composed especially for the MiraTone Festival. In the second half of the evening, one of Kurtág’s most poignant string quartets, ‘Secreta’—mourning music in memory of László Dobszay—will be performed, framed by two contemporary works: the Hungarian premiere of Katarzyna Krzewińska’s ‘drowning to the light’, and Gergely Vajda’s composition ‘Light Play: Black-White-Gray’.
Sponsors and partners: National Cultural Fund of Hungary, MOU, Japan Foundation, FUGA
Entry fee: 3900 Ft (open seating)
Tickets are available with up to a 30% discount and no service fees at https://miratone.jegy.hu/?lang=en while supplies last. Secure your spot as soon as possible for this unique musical experience, and join us for several of the festival’s events!