Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra & Cristian Mandeal @ George Enescu Festival 19.09.2023 (FULL CONCERT), 2nd night, Bucharest Palace Hall
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CRISTIAN MANDEAL conductor
SHEKU KANNEH-MASON cello
0:28 Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
19:02 Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107
53:31 (cello encore) Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Melody
57:16 George Enescu: Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 17
1:51:50 (1st encore) Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6
1:56:42 (2nd encore) George Enescu: Orchestral Suite No.2 in C major, Op.20 (II Sarabande)
SEPARATELY:
• Kodály: Dances of Galá...
• Shostakovich: Cello Co...
• Enescu: Symphony No. 2...
Recorded from public broadcast. Enjoy!
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Dances of Galánta was composed on commission for the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society. It is based on folk music of Galánta (now part of Slovakia), where Kodály lived for several years. The composer remarked: "At that time there existed a famous Gypsy band...This was the first 'orchestral' sonority that came to the ears of the child...About 1800 some books of Hungarian dances were published in Vienna, one of which contained music 'after several Gypsies from Galánta'...the composer has taken his principal themes from these old publications". Most of the pieces used were of the verbunkos style - originally developed as military recruiting music, but generalizing to a Hungarian folk tradition in the early 1800s. Kodály saw the piece as a "sequel" to his 1927 piano suite (later orchestrated) Dances of Marosszék. (wikipedia)
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The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days. He premiered it on October 4, 1959, at the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. The first recording was made in two days following the premiere by Rostropovich and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Aleksandr Gauk. (wikipedia)
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Enescu began writing his Second Symphony late in 1912, and the manuscript score specifies the date of completion on 18 November 1914. The composer conducted its premiere by the Orchestra of the Ministry of Public Education at the Athenaeum in Bucharest on 15 March (Old Style = 29 March New Style) 1915. Enescu was not satisfied with the result, and set aside the manuscript, which was not performed again until Iosif Conta [ro; ja; ru] revived the symphony in 1961, six years after the composer's death.
At the height of the First World War, in the summer of 1917, the Romanian government sent their gold reserves by train to Moscow, along with a large collection of Enescu's manuscripts, including the only copy of the Second Symphony and all of the sketches for the opera Œdipe. The crate containing Enescu's documents arrived in Moscow, but promptly disappeared. It was only recovered thanks to the intervention of Bruno Walter in 1924, and eventually was returned to Enescu in Paris. Though he remarked in 1952 that it was "far from being finished", and intended an extensive revision of it, other commitments prevented him from doing so. The score was first published only in 1965 by Éditions Salabert, Paris. Although the published score does not bear any dedication, there is reason to suppose that Enescu intended dedicating the work to the memory of Édouard Colonne. (wikipedia)
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