Ditta Rohmann & Savaria Symphony Orchestra

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The Savaria Symphony Orchestra brings a genuine curiosity to Budapest.

It was at the orchestra’s request that 46‐year‐old Péter Tóth composed an approximately 15‐minute work for full orchestra and solo soprano. As the composer writes, the cycle sets selected poems to music from Petrarch’s masterwork Canzoniere and has a lyrical tone and calls for the unusual accompaniment of a girl’s choir. The concert will also see a reunion between a master and his former pupil – Tóth began his studies in musical composition under Miklós Kocsár at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music. Although Kocsár is known today to the music‐loving public primarily as a creator of “harmonious” choral works, he drew attention to himself decades ago through his bold avant‐garde instrumental compositions. His Cello Concerto was conceived in 1993 in the context of his return to traditional tonal systems. Ditta Rohmann was delighted to accept the latest challenge set by the symphony orchestra from the Hungarian town of Szombathely having already played Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with the ensemble in March 2010. A member of the young generation of artists just starting her career in music, Rohmann is one of few musicians who frequently and happily perform contemporary music, even showing openness to experimental styles.

The interval will be followed by the Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 5, composed in 1915. Although he outlived the 19th century by almost sixty years and left behind a huge body of work, the romantic composer abandoned composition for the last thirty years of his life. The music of the creator of Finland’s national musical identity is rarely played by orchestras in Hungary, making this concert a truly special occasion.