MONUMENTAL. DEADLY LOVE.

The Wesendonck Songs, created in the period close to Tristan und Isolde and closely connected in many ways to the music drama of love, are among the most fascinating works in Wagner’s oeuvre. The poems were written by Mathilde Wesendonck: “She was, and remained, my first and only love. The years I spent with her were the brightest of my life,” Wagner once said. Franz Liszt’s Faust Symphony premiered in 1857 in Weimar, conducted by Liszt himself, and was inspired by Goethe’s Faust.

Program
Wagner: Wesendonck Songs
interval
Liszt: Faust Symphony

Conductor
Mátyás Antal*

Artists

Schöck Atala (alto)
János Szerekován (tenor)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hungarian Radio Men's Choir 

*We would like to inform our audience that Conductor János Kovács has cancelled his conducting of the concert on 25th November due to health reasons.

Photo: Atala Schöck ©Papp Schneider