hungarian cultural centre • london
january
Thursday | 27 January | 7.30 pm ≥
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Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall
e CONCERT Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra begin their year-long, panEuropean exploration of the life and music of Béla Bartók in January at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The series, which includes 20 concerts in 11 European cities, features all of Bartók’s main orchestral works as well as a very special semi-staged performance of his only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. The project also includes chamber events, a study day, a major series of online resources including more than a dozen new short documentary films, and performances by the leading Hungarian folk group Muzsikás. The series brings together many of the leading exponents of Bartók’s music, together with academics, musicologists and archive and museum curators based in both Europe and the USA. The Takács Quartet will be performing all of Bartók’s string quartets over two evenings in October 2011 as part of the Southbank Centre International Chamber Music Season. Orchestral soloists include Yefim Bronfman, who performs all three piano concertos between January and November, Christian Tetzlaff, and Sir John Tomlinson and Measha Brueggergosman, who take the roles of Bluebeard and Judith in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Series Consultant and leading Bartók scholar Professor Malcolm Gillies has brought together a group of international specialists in Bartók’s life and music to write articles and to contribute to a considerable body of new documentary films. The leading Hungarian folk ensemble Muzsikás will also be performing in both London and at The Anvil Basingstoke. The series begins in London on 27 January with a performance of Kossuth, the First Piano Concerto and the complete score to The Miraculous Mandarin. ∆ Tickets from £8 to £45 – for more information and to book tickets please call 0800 652 6717. Visit www.philharmonia.co.uk/bartok for full details of all concerts in the series, as well as to watch documentary films about the composer and his life and to find out more about the series.
2011
bartók-series