Program
Claude Debussy (→ bio):
PRÉLUDE À L’APRÈS-MIDI D’UN FAUNE (Afternoon of a Faun – transcript by Arnold Schönberg (→ bio))
Maurice Ravel (→ bio):
Introduction and Allegro
The letter of the day: Aleph
Maurice Ravel (→ bio):
Ma mère l’Oye ( Tales of Mother Goose – transcript by Iain Farrington)
INTERVAL
Literature (will be performed in Hungarian):
Bertolt Brecht:
The Burning of the Books (translated by Gábor Klein)
Read by Nóra Diána Takács
Mihály Babits:
Book propaganda and book burning
Read by Károly Hajduk
Esther Dischereit:
Ich find das komisch (translated by Eszter Toldi)
Read by Nóra Diána Takács
Igor Stravinsky (→ bio):
Petrushka – excerpts (transcript by Yuval Saphiro)
Klezmer music
The musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Iván Fischer.
