From the Baltic to the Danube: Finland & Hungary – Musical Neighbors?

When: Sun., Mar. 4, 2018 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: Baruch Performing Arts Center
One Bernard Baruch Way (25th Street btw. Lexington & Third Aves)
212-352-3101
Price: $36
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The Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian tongues share common roots despite the countries being separated by 1,200 miles. Explore their affinities and their dissimilarities through their singular musical languages. Includes solo piano and vocal music by Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Jean Sibelius, and Arvo Paart.

WILLIAM HOBBS, piano and KATE MANGIAMELI, soprano

PROGRAM:
Selected arrangements of Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian folk songs for voice and piano

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op.8 for solo piano

Bartok selected art songs

Five Songs on poems by Endre Ady, Op. 16, for voice and piano
Out of Doors suite for solo piano

–Intermission–

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Hungarian Rhapsody #2

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Six Finnish folksongs, arranged for solo piano JS 81

Luonnotar Op.70 for voice and orchestra, arranged by the composer for voice and piano

Veljo Tormis (1930–2017)

Haiku settings for voice and piano

 

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