Opening concert — Accord Quartet & Sonora Hungarica Consort

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 7 pm
Nógrád, Catholic Church (22 Hunyadi utca)

Performing

• Péter Mező — violin
• Csongor Veér — violin
• Péter Kondor — viola
• Mátyás Ölveti — cello
• Imre Lachegyi — recorder
• Salamon Eredics — recorder
• Géza Klembala — harpsichord

Programme

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Adagio and Fugue
• Georg Philipp Telemann: 4 duets for two recorders
• Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 contrapuncts from The Art of the Fugue
• Péter Zombola: Chaconne — first performance
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Musicalisches Opfer — Ricercar à 6*
• Johann Sebastian Bach: 4th Brandenburg Concerto, harpsichord concerto version

*Performing: Anna Lachegyi — cello

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Accord Quartet was formed in 2001, by four students of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. They set the connecting of our “modern world” and classical music as their objective, by means of performing chamber music with new thoughts at new venues. They regularly give concerts both in Hungary and abroad. They performed at the Budapest Autumn Festival (2004, 2005, 2006), Budapest Spring Festival, in the Hungarian Radio, the Music Academy, the French Institute of Budapest and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. They were awarded three high-class instruments from the Republic of Hungary, a French and an Italian master violin and an Italian master cello from June 2005. Their first CD was released in November, 2004. Besides participating in international courses, they were awarded the Thomastik—Infeld Prize in Austria, at the Vienna—Budapest—Prague International Summer Academy in 2002, in 2003, the Kodály First Prize, at the same venue and in 2004, the Bartók First Prize. They were awarded the First Prize of the National Chamber Music Competition Leó Weiner in 2003. They were awared Artisjus Prize (prize for contemporary music premiers and playing) Hungary. From October of 2006 they are studying in Madrid in the Esculea Superior de Música de Reina Sofia.

The Sonora Hungarica Consort was founded in 1992 by historical musicians. Their repertoire consists of chamber music from the early music period (Renaissance and Baroque). The “core” of the consort is a trio: recorder, harpsichord and viola da gamba, which is often completed with singers and other musical instruments. In this way they become able to perform smaller oratorios and orchestral pieces (cantatas, concertos, etc.). Since their foundation the consort has given concerts in churches and concert halls of Hungary and of foreign countries. They have three albums yet: French and German Chamber Music from the 17—18th century (2001); German Chamber Music from the 17—18th century (2003); Aliento Seráfico — Baroque Chamber Music from Italy & Spain (2006).