At the festival of the Chamber-Circle – which is an ensemble of twelve young musicians established by Róza Radnóti – the most significant melodramas are going to be performed by three young actors, Benjamin Dino, Csenge Horváth, and József Wunderlich; together with three young pianists, Imre Dani, Róza Radnóti and Fülöp Ránki. On this special occasion poems and ballads written by Lenau, Jókai, Tennyson, Turgenev are going to be performed, among others – in some cases translated to Hungarian specifically for this concert – with the musical illustration of composers such as Grieg, Schumann, Liszt or Richard Strauss.
Program:
Franz Liszt: Des toten Dichters Liebe / words by Mór Jókai
Felix Draeseke-Ferenc Liszt: Helges Treue / words by M. G. Strachwitz / translated by László Márton
Franz Liszt: Lenore / words by G. A. Bürger / translated by Gyula Reviczky
Franz Liszt: Der traurige Mönch / words by N. Lenau / translated by János Vajda after Lenau
Franz Liszt: Der blinde Sänger / words by A. K. Tolstoy / translated by István Vörös