Event Description:
From the Baltic to the Danube: Finland & Hungary - Musical Neighbors?
March 4, 2018 at 5 PM
Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall
WILLIAM HOBBS, piano and KATE MANGIAMELI, soprano
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From the Baltic to the Danube: Finland & Hungary – Musical Neighbors?
The Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian languages share common roots despite the countries being separated by 1,200 miles. Explore their affinities and their dissimilarities through their singular musical languages. Includes solo piano and vocal music by Franz Liszt, Béla Bartók, Jean Sibelius, and Veljo Tormis.
PROGRAM:
Selected arrangements of Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian folk songs for voice and piano
Jean Sibelius
Finnish Folksongs arranged for
piano (1901-1902)
Folksongs I: Celebration and
Community
Volt nekem egy darú szőrü
paripám (Once I had a steed as black as tar)
(Hungarian trad., arranged by
Francis Korbay)
Minun kultani kaunis on (My
sweetheart is beautiful) (Finnish trad., arranged by Dmitri Shostakovich from
"Suite on Finnish Themes" [1939])
Küla mul ütleb (Everyone asks
me to sing) (Estonian trad., arranged by Juhan Zeiger)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Improvisations on Hungarian
Peasant Songs, Op.20 (1920)
Folksongs II: Introspection
Hällilaul (Cradle Song)
(Estonian trad., arranged by Mart Saar)
Repül a szán (The sleigh flies
away) (Hungarian trad., arranged by Elek Erkel)
Läksin minä kesäyönä käymään
(I went for a walk on a summer evening) (Finnish trad., arranged by Ralf
Gothóni)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Hungarian Dance number 4 (1869), based on "Repül a szán" (1869)
Foksongs III: Narrative and
Epic
Excerpt from "Kalevala"
(Finnish trad., music adapted by Börje Vähämäki, text adapted by Jean
Sibelius and William Hobbs)
Kalvipojla Laul (Excerpt from
the Estonian epic "Kalevipoeg", arranged by A. Sõber)
Három árva (Three Orphans)
(Hungarian trad., arranged by Zoltán Kodály)
--INTERMISSION--
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 (1847)
Béla Bartók: Five Songs to
Poems by Endre Ady (1916)
Ester Mägi (1922-): Vana
Kannel (The Ancient Kannel) (1985)
Velho Tormis (1930-2017): Ten
Haikus (text: Jaan Kaplinski) (1966)
Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op.
70 (1913) for soprano and orchestra (arranged by the composer)
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