Season Finale Concert. Hungarian Dances

Programme

6 p.m. – pre-concert

György Ligeti
Trio for violin, french horn and piano Hommage à Brahms
II Vivacissimo molto ritmico
III Alla marcia

Johannes Brahms
Trio for violin, french horn and piano E-flat Major, Op. 40
IV Allegro con brio

Jürnas Rähni (french horn), Triin Ruubel (violin), Kärt Ruubel (piano)

7 p.m – symphony concert

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Zoltán Kodály
Suite from Háry János

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, and 10 

Watch broadcast:

ERSO closes its 99th season with a particularly thrilling guest: cimbalom virtuoso Ivan Curtean, who will perform a suite from Zoltán Kodály’s comic opera Háry János. The work tells of villagers gathered in a Hungarian tavern to hear the fantastical tales of the old soldier Háry János—most famously, how he single-handedly defeated Napoleon in Milan, yet refused to marry the Empress out of loyalty to his village sweetheart, Örzse. The program also includes Johannes Brahms’ spirited Hungarian Dances and his Third Symphony, conducted by Olari Elts.