Baroque chamber music evening

Sonora Hungarica Consort and Dávid Szigetvári

Thursday, 26 August 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Berkenye, Catholic Church (44 Kossuth Street)

Performing

Sonora Hungarica Consort

• Dávid Szigetvári — tenor
• Imre Lachegyi — recorder
• Katalin Kovács — harpsichord
• Sándor Szászvárosi — viol

Programme

• Giulio Caccini: Amarilli
• Claudio Monteverdi: Si dolce e il tormento
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Aria di passacaglia
• Dario Castello: Quarta sonata
• Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde: Canzona
• Henry Purcell: Sweeter Than Roses
  If Music Be the Food of Love
  Evening Hymn
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonata in G major BWV 1039
• Georg Philipp Telemann: In gering — und rauben Schalen (cantata)

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Sonora Hungarica Consort

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).

Dávid Szigetvári

Dávid Szigetvári was born in 1984, in Hungary. In Weiner Leó Secondary School of Music, in addition to studying singing from Éva Lax, he also followed studies of musical composition and harpsichord. He ranked 3rd in the Simándy József Singing Competition in 2004. In that year he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as a student of Katalin Halmai and graduated in 2009. He received Artisjus Award for performing contemporary music pieces in 2006. During his years of Academy education, he attended the master courses of Mitsuko Shirai, Nicholas Clapton, Peter Schreier, Helmuth Rilling and Ton Koopman. As a member of the Budapest Chamber Opera, which he was also touring in London with, he sang the role of Valetto, the student of Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea of Monteverdi, and also the role of Shepherd in L’Orfeo. In 2007, he partook in the Schleswig—Holstein Festival in Hamburg with the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra, which ensembles he still often works with. He sang the role of Evangelist of Matthäus-Passion of J. S. Bach in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Music in 2008, then the Evangelist of Johannes-Passion in the following year. He occasionally conducts concerts, at the autumn in 2009, he conducted Händel’s Orlando in the Great Hall of the Academy of Music Budapest with the students of the University of Music.