Concerto Budapest will perform with Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich at its concerts in Budapest on January 17, and in Pécs on January 19.
In a statement, the organizer of the Pécs concert, Filharmónia Magyarország, wrote that during the evenings to be held in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Music, Budapest, and then at the Kodály Center in Pécs, Concerto Budapest will perform works that were defining for their composers:
In addition to Mendelssohn’s violin concerto, Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 in D major and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor will also be performed.
Mendelssohn’s work is one of the defining pieces of violin concerto literature, they wrote, highlighting that the soloist of Concerto Budapest will be Augustin Hadelich, a celebrated guest of the world’s greatest concert halls, born in Italy to German parents and now a U.S. citizen and Grammy Award winner.
Before and after the concerto, there will be a symphony conducted by András Keller, one by Schubert, who was barely 18 when he wrote it, and one by Tchaikovsky, who was 38 but already melancholic and gloomy at the time.
Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 exudes youthful cheerfulness and lightness, while the Russian composer’s Symphony No. 4 has been associated not only by posterity but also by the composer himself with the concept of fate and the weight of destiny bearing down on man. The announcement emphasized that this was the first symphony among Tchaikovsky’s symphonies in which he expressed his struggle with his own fate, drawing on his experience of a recent, hastily arranged and quickly dissolved marriage.
For more details about the concerts, including ticket information, please visit concertobudapest.hu and filharmonia.hu.
Fact
Augustin Hadelich is one of the greatest violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, his sensitive and compelling interpretations, and his ravishing tone, he tours extensively throughout the world.
Hadelich’s discography reflects his stylistic versatility and encompasses a large part of the violin repertoire. In 2016, he received a Grammy Award for his recording of Henri Dutilleux’s violin concerto “L’Arbre des songes” with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Ludovic Morlot.
Augustin Hadelich was born in Italy to German parents and is a dual U.S.-German citizen. He rose to fame after winning the 2006 International Violin Competition in Indianapolis, followed by further awards. In 2018, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the influential magazine Musical America.
Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, and was appointed Professor of Violin at the Yale School of Music in 2021. He plays a 1744 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin known as “Leduc,” provided to him by Tarisio.
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