The audience of the capital could commit to the Pécs-based orchestra even before the opening of Müpa, and the orchestra has subscription holders who attended already the ensemble's first concert in Budapest. In its upcoming season, the orchestra is looking for the key to the SECRET.

What is the secret of classical music appealing to so many people? Why does the audience in the capital love the ensemble so much that almost all their concerts take place before a full house? Why are more and more young people sitting in Müpa's auditorium?

Subscriptions for PFZ's Pannon Series can be renewed with a discount until 31 May, but the orchestra is also looking forward to welcoming new audience members to Müpa.

 

 

This secret is no secret. It has no seal on it, so it cannot be broken: it's open to you. Or is it? Is it perhaps a secret under seven seals? Perhaps, beyond the seals of inspiration, the composer, the conductor, the musician, the instrument and the soundwave, you are perhaps the seventh seal. You, the recipient, in whom the sound resonates, who respects the artist, admires the conductor, savours the compositions and longs for the catharsis.

 

The orchestra's message to its audience is: "Classical music is our shared secret, and you're the key.”

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 will blow you out of this world at the opening concert No question. It will be performed by Tom Borrow, the barely 23-year-old star pianist. Moreover, the concert will feature in honour of the composer, Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, the essence of his oeuvre.

 

The second event of the series, Kaddish, on a November evening will present notable choirs as well as singers, and Pál Mácsai's narration will help us transform our grief into the colours of life: the shared affliction of the Holocaust that happened 80 years ago and the sadness over individual tragedies are followed by the glorification of life. Chief conductor Gergely Kesselyák juxtaposed Bernstein's massive apparatus, Kaddish Symphony, next to Penderecki's gentle-tone Kaddish and Korngold's masterpiece.

 

At the January concert of the series Are you a Puppet?, Maestro Gilbert Varga continues to present young talents and to decipher the membranous layers of classical works. Seohyun Kim, a barely 15-year-old representative of the future's great violinist generation, will act as soloist. Besides Wieniawski's violin concerto, the concert seeks the answer to the secret through Gounod, Bartók and Richard Strauss'  compositions: whether our various roles move us or is it we who shape them?

 

In March, the series will reveal the confessions of two iconic masters to the audience in the concert Confessions. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is the expression of philanthropy and joy of life, which Viktoria Mullova is channelling to us through her sensitive performance. Tchaikovsky's  Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic", is a summary of a very perceptive artist's life. The conductor of the evening is Nicolò Umberto Foron, a young talent whose breakthrough was that of a comet.

 

At the season's closing concert Play and Serenity, Tibor Bogányi and the pianist Dejan Lazić will welcome the audience with Mozart's flamboyant piece and the soloist's own composition. The season will conclude with Brahms' Symphony No.2.

 

MORE INFORMATION HERE!

 

Subscriptions are available at Müpa's Ticket Office and Jegymester. Free-of-charge subscriptions can be requested for children between 6 and 18. 

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